NIKE Executive Summary Nike Inc. founded in 1962 by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight was first named Blue Ribbon sports. Their goal was to distribute high quality Japanese athletic shoes to American consumers in an attempt to compete with Germany’s domination of the athletic wear at that time (Adidas and Puma). Nike manufactures and distributes athletic shoes at every marketable price point to the global market. More than 40% of sales come from athletic apparel and sports equipment
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Executive Summary The company strategy that Nike uses is an ingenious one. A strategy that founder Phil Knight thought of while still in school at Stanford. Instead of paying Americans to put together Nike’s shoes‚ Knight thought that it would be a better idea to take manufacturing plants overseas to places where labor is much cheaper than in the U.S.‚ places like Taiwan and South Korea. With 86% of its products being produced in one of those two countries and Nike employing a large number of people who
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NIKE Part 1: Organizational Analysis 2/6/2013 NIKE Part 1: Organizational Analysis Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Overview and History 4 Organizational Strategies and Innovation 5 Organizational Design and Effectiveness 6 Competitors 7 Organizational Structure 7 Board of Directors: 8 External Environment 9 Opportunities 9 Threats 9 Internal Environment 10 Strengths 10 Weaknesses 11 Competitors 11 Nike Products and Services 12 Information Technology
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their supply chain and leverage the power of sport to change lives. The role of government‚ business‚ communities‚ politics‚ media are all shifting and therefore Nike needs to shift too. Nike has a desire to develop greener‚ smarter and better products‚ communities and economies which is why “innovate for a better world” is important. Nike challenges and empowers their designers to consider the environmental impact of everything that are involved in developing a product. Their design called “considered
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NIKE HISTORY Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight founded Nike Inc. as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1962 with a handshake. The two man team began the company with a combined investment of $500 each. They reached an agreement with a Japanese manufacturer of athletic shoes‚ forming BRS/Tiger shoes. Phil Knight started this company selling shoes from the trunk of his car. As the empire grew‚ the two man team developed the idea to cut overheard. In 1972‚ BRS and Onitsuka Tiger went different ways and thus Nike
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Casinos in Singapore on the Foreign Construction Workers By: Wang Sen‚ Soh Chang Li‚ Lim Jun Hao Eugene‚ Lim Puo Hua‚ Hng Zu Wai ------------------------------------------------- The Impact of the Operations of Casinos in Singapore on the Foreign Construction Workers By: Wang Sen‚ Soh Chang Li‚ Lim Jun Hao Eugene‚ Lim Puo Hua‚ Hng Zu Wai Abstract The establishment of casinos benefits the Singapore economy tremendously. However‚ increased number of foreign workers spotted at casinos has caused
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* Not tapping into the full potential of foreign factories * Only use them for benefit of tariffs and trade concessions‚ cheap labor‚ etc. * Some companies do use them to full potential and gain exponentially from it. * Use them for the previous reasons mentioned‚ but also to get closer to their customer and suppliers‚ to attract skilled and talenterd employees‚ and create centers of expertise for the entire company. * The answer for why these two approaches lies in the managers
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and negative effects to the factory workers‚ but a majority of negative effects‚ along with health problems and children working however‚ a positive effect jobs for women. To begin‚ during the Industrial Revolution‚ factories lead to health problems to the men workers‚ in addition to pollution. In document seven there is a photograph where there is an enormous amount of black smoke in the sky causing pollution. All the black smoke in the air was inhaled by workers and families which would cause
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World History 3 November 2011 Essay Question #23 Why might have the philosophy of Communism appealed to many 19th century factory workers? During the Industrial Revolution‚ factory workers received little pay‚ worked long hours‚ and never saw improvement in their living and working conditions. In the mean time‚ the middle class was emerging. They were rich because of the enormous amounts of money created in the country because of the Industrial Revolution. Marx thought that the capitalist
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still needed a way to put food on the table and having mass production in factories. Therefore both of the workers were important but factory workers were better in the sense of economic wealth‚ this means they both were affected greatly by industrialization. In the Gilded Age farmers reacted upset due to the amount if land being by the main men in power of the industries. This resulted in less farming for the farmers. The factories did start to create better equipment for the farmers thought so that
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