firm and its organizational boundaries (‚ 2002). The notion of distinctive competencies‚ first discussed by (1957) and (1965)‚ was further reiterated by and (1990). In their analysis‚ key resources‚ skills and technologies are called core competencies. The following takes the Integrated Electronics (Intel) case and analyses the giant digital company’s core competencies by way of the three epochs that it has gone through since 1968. EPOCH I This first era that Intel has gone through
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Group #3 (Under Armor) Intel Inside Case Study Initially the motivation behind the branding of Intel Inside was to establish the company by name and identify the high performance products that were used inside the computer with the company. This was in an effort to create an image for a company which often was subjected to behind the scenes and specific industry awareness‚ but wanted to establish it’s brand presence to the general public. Intel created a consumer brand to make sense of the rapidly
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Grove‚ President & CEO‚ Intel Inc. From: FT56212/0 Subject: The Intel Pentium Chip Controversy Intel‚ the most popular micro-processing chip manufacturer in the early nineties had introduced the Pentium processor to improve speed of computer operations. The Pentium was the result of constant innovation and expensive research and development and yet was accused as being defective in solving particular mathematical calculations. The primary question facing Intel was whether or not to recall
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Intel Corporation‚ 1992 Case Study Describe the characteristics of the industry in which Intel operates. How is Intel positioned in the industry? Intel operates in an industry‚ which is comprised of products involving high research and development costs‚ continuous product improvement and new innovations. The companies in the industry are having high economies of scale and are knowledge based. It helps both the service and manufacturing sectors in the growth process. Intel is positioned
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MGMT-364 Section 900 Group Assignment: Intel Case Intel Corporation is known for it’s innovative successes and the ability to think outside the box. Some of Intel’s sources of competitive advantages in DRAM were that they were able to make a smaller product‚ they were able to create a complex product that helped deal with the imitation issue and they were able to a more cost effective product. Intel’s sources of competitive advantages for microprocessors on the other hand were
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Intel case 1.1 Describe the type of business in which Intel operates. Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara‚ California. Intel is the largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker‚ based on revenue. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets‚ network interface controllers and integrated circuits‚ flash memory‚ graphic chips‚ embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Read the letters
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DESIGNING AND MANAGING INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS 17-1 MARKETING SPOTLIGHT INTEL Intel makes the microprocessors that are found in 80 percent of the world’s personal computers. In the early days‚ Intel microprocessors were known simply by their engineering numbers‚ such as “80386” or “80486.” Intel positioned its chips as the most advanced. The trouble was‚ as Intel soon learned‚ numbers can’t be trademarked. Competitors came out with their own “486” chips‚ and Intel had no
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semiconductor product. Intel’s strategy was to come up with revolutionary product design and to be first to market with innovative devices. This strategy required enormous investments in process technology and manufacturing equipment. Between 1974-1984‚ Intel started losing market share to Japanese competition. This lost in market share can be attributed to several reasons. The first would be the fact that patents were not easily enforceable for DRAMS. Additionally the Japanese competitors have invested
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201147507 Chinthaka Uduwage Intel Corp. 1968-2003 • How would you explain Intel’s initial dominance and subsequent decline in DRAMS? Intel was successful at the beginning because of their “Goldlocks strategy”‚ which they focused on mass production and something that competitors cannot copy easily. Because of this approach Intel was able to produce 1103‚ world’s first 1 kilobit DRAM. The 1103 was more cost effective to build‚ smaller and better in performance. The 1103 DRAM was able to replace
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Part 1 1. What were the different changes at Intel over the first three years of Barrett’s tenure? Different changes at Intel over the first three years of Barrett’s tenure were that he has increased the production capacity for Intel. Some others changes were closing down of an e-commerce service for small businesses‚ web broadcasting for shareholder meetings was also terminated as well as cutting back on web- surfing applications in other countries other than Spain. He also reorganized company
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