SWOT Analysis and Strategies You are a senior manager of a computer company that competes with Apple‚ Inc. (Apple). You read a case study about Apple and determined that doing a SWOT analysis of Apple may help you with your own strategies. Perform a SWOT analysis by identifying at least five factors each for Apple ’s strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats. For each strategic factor that you include‚ make sure that you also include an explanation of why that factor is important and why
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Financial Statement Analysis The purpose of this paper is to conduct financial statement analysis of a publicly traded company‚ Intel Corporation. A discussion about the financial health of Intel has the ultimate goal of making recommendations to other investors. Horizontal analysis facilitates the required data for calculating certain ratios. In addition‚ this paper reports the negative and positive trends seen in Intel’s financial history as well as calculates the current ratio‚ quick ratio
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competition is increased‚ the requirement for international business strategy is rising ever higher. International business strategy plays a vital role in the global economy‚ it not only to guide a company’s development‚ but also link the global economy. What is strategy? A strategy is the pattern or plan that integrates an organisation’s major goals‚ policies and action sequences into a cohesive whole. (Mintzburg‚ 1984) Those strategies established long-term objectives and provided the overall guidance
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INTELS’ CASE STUDY ANALYSIS INTERNAL ANALYSIS: Resources: 1. Financial Resources – The annual revenues of Intel have grown phenomenally in recent years‚ thanks to the push for more advanced technology by consumers. Since 1991 annual revenues have climbed from $4.8 billion‚ more than five-fold to $25.1 billion in 1997 (‚ ‚ & ‚ 1999). To continue this growth‚ Intel seeks to continue to be the pre-eminent building-block supplier to the computer industry worldwide. With these strong financial
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a vision to bring advancements on how people work and live through silicon and technology innovations was born. Intel‚ derived from Integrated Electronics‚ was founded in 1968 by Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noycee in California. By 1989‚ they decided to reincorporate in tax friendly Delaware. Intel has since expanded globally to levels they probably only dreamed of. They created Intel in the tough times of the late 60s and since have seen so many evolutions come about which they have been a part
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Reading summary At the beginning‚ Intel had no distinguished trademark Intel launched the “Intel inside” campaign to build brand awareness of their microprocessors‚ which has their brand kept in mind by consumers. (Intel logo) The success of bunny people series – a successful marketing campaign in 1990 2003‚ Centino includes new micro processor‚ extended battery life and wireless features. Using Media. In mid 2000s‚ although PC industries went down‚ Intel focused on new opportunities fto seek
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Date: 18/07/2009 1. Was the Intel Inside campaign worth it ? What were its strengths and weaknesses? The unfavorable judgment against Intel “386” trademark in 1991 indicated that any competitor could market its product using the same marks‚ numerical sequencing‚ used by Intel. To differentiate from competitors and solve the problem of market confusion among the product offerings‚ Intel developed an alternative branding strategy by focusing on building the company’s brand image
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WRITTEN REPORT CHAPTER 5 STRATEGIES IN ACTION FMA42FC1 – BUS 403 DAROY‚ KAREN CALAÑGIAN‚ EVA ISABEL SORIANO‚ JOCEL VILLANUEVA‚ EDNALYN Long Term Objectives Performance goals of an organization‚ intended to be achieved over a period of five years or more. Long-term objectives usually include specific improvements in the organization’s competitive position‚ technology leadership‚ profitability‚ return on investment‚ employee relations and productivity‚ and corporate image
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Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Testing Plan Intel was founded in Mountain View‚ CA in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore‚ two physicists who worked at a San Jose-based Fairchild Semiconductors. Intel‚ which stands for “Integrated Electronics”‚ began producing semiconductors. Company timeline 1970 – Created the first commercially available dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip 1971 – Produced the first commercially available microprocessor‚ moved their HQ to Santa
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to also running the apps on the GPU (BOINC‚ 2013). They first started with NVIDIA’s CUDA routines and added ATI’s CAL routines to enable projects applications to perform scientific calculations on their various GPUs. With the acquisition of ATI by AMD‚ AMD has since dropped support for the CAL routines and has gone with supporting OpenCL for running general applications of the graphics coprocessor. The following list are some of the projects that use the GPU: 1. http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ 2. http://boinc
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