Microeconomics Group Project “AMD Inside” Study of Duopoly in microprocessor market ( Submitted On 15-Mar-2012 ) Submitted By: Mayank Agrawal (PGPM811_55) Snigdha Tripathy (PGPM811_93) Contents 1. Background 3 2. Purpose 3 3. Scope 3 4. What is duopoly? 3 5. The microprocessor market 4 5.1 Which is better: Intel or AMD? 4 6. How it all began – A brief history 5 7. Cournot’s Model as applied to Intel and AMD. 5 8. Revenues 10 9. Price
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Drucker‚ the management consultant and author of “Innovation and Entrepreneurship stated that “…Because its purpose is to create a customer‚ business has two—and only two functions: Marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results‚ all the rest are costs." So the question now is what is innovation? Generally put‚ an ‘innovation’ is developing a new idea and putting it into practice. Edward Kahn in his book stated that innovation is inherently unstructured‚ unpredictable‚ and risky
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The Amazon of Innovation Case 1. Based on the information provided in the case‚ Amazon’s competitive strategy can go either way – it is possible to justify Amazon’s strategy as a cost leader‚ simply because the case stresses‚ in more than on instance‚ in the fact that Amazon has razor thin margins‚ and places emphasis on discounted prices. However‚ I believe that Amazon’s competitive strategy is more oriented to differentiation. It’s clear from the timeline presented in this case that Amazon is
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Technovarion‚ 14( 1) (1994) 7-16 A conceptual technological management Mushin Lee and Kiyong Om framework innovation of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)‚ Department Management and Policy‚ 373-l Kusong-dong‚ Yusong-gu‚ Taejon 305-701‚ Korea of South Abstract J. T. Chiang argues that studies in technological innovation management are not mature enough in terms of (I) the conceptual categories‚ (2) the interrelationships and (3) the taxonomy of relevant
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in determining the cost of serving customers and as a basis for evaluating the profitabilty of a specific customer or group of customers. Why is this important? Most managers agree that 80% of their profits come from the top 20% of their customers and most important‚ the bottom 20% of their customers are unprofitable. For example‚ to compete with Walmart‚Best Buy works hard to attract profitable customers and equally hard to discourage the unprofitable customers which those that are price shopping
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Did the innovation change “the rules of the game”? Was there another parallel innovation/development that “enabled” this innovation to take root? Did it lead to the displacement of some competitors‚ with their positions being assumed by newer players in the industry? How have customers responded to the innovation? Trace the genesis of the innovation. What lead to it? Was necessity the mother of the innovation or was it serendipity? How has the innovation affected the market
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speed up the pickup and drop-off processes. However‚ soon after the new computerized system was introduced‚ Mr. Sewickley‚ the company president‚ received an angry complaint letter from a very upset customer‚ Mr. Shelton‚ because of a lost order. After a series of ineffective communication with the customer complaint office’s manager Paul Hoffner‚ Shelton only grew even more upset and was extremely dissatisfied with the way things were handled‚ it was then Mr. Shelton finally brought this matter to the
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Topic Gateway Series Customer profitability analysis Customer profitability analysis Topic Gateway Series No. 55 1 Prepared by Jasmin Harvey and Technical Information Service January 2009 Topic Gateway Series Customer profitability analysis About Topic Gateways Topic Gateways are intended as a refresher or introduction to topics of interest to CIMA members. They include a basic definition‚ a brief overview and a fuller explanation of practical application. Finally they
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25 Definitions Of Innovation inShare By: Hutch Carpenter | September 23‚ 2010 In a recent blog post proposing a definition of innovation‚ I noted that innovation means different things to different people. It ultimately is what you think it is. What’s a useful definition for you won’t work for others‚ and vice versa. I asked for people’s definitions on several LinkedIn groups‚ and the community came forward with many interesting and valuable perspectives. For me‚ the value of this was two-fold:
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A case study is a description of an actual administrative situation involving a decision to be made or a problem to be solved. It can be a real situation that actually happened just as described‚ or portions have been disguised for reasons of privacy. Most case studies are written in such a way that the reader takes the place of the manager whose responsibility is to make decisions to help solve the problem. In almost all case studies‚ a decision must be made‚ although that decision might be to
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