Apple Inc. Case Study # 1 iPhone [pic] Professor Chug-Shing Lee BUSA 499 Capstone October 1‚ 2008 Analysis Conducted By Apex [pic] Ryan Boykin Ashley Fiorini Lance Tanaka Matt Webb Executive Summary Apple has demonstrated that innovation can lead to market dominance with products like the iPod. With products such as this‚ Apple has developed a brand that has built a customer base with astonishing loyalty. According to Business week‚ Apple was thirty third for top
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1. What are the strategic capabilities of IKEA? From the VIRO table (appendix 1) IKEA’s strategic capabilities are grouped into the following categories - Brand/quality reputation Financial strength Production capacity. Brand/Quality reputation IKEA operates (in 2002) 154 stores in 22 countries and serviced 286 million customers. With a 14% share of the market (in America)‚ there is huge opportunity for growth via a continued marketing campaign to leverage off its brand‚ differentiating
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SUMMARY 6 Reference: Germov‚ J‚ ”Managerialism in the Australian public health sector: towards the hyper-rationalisation of professional bureaucracies.“ Sociology of Health and Illness 27‚ No. 6 (2005): 738-758. The article outlines the effect and impact of managerialism on the organization’s operation in Australian public health sector professionals‚ which bases on 11 qualitative case-study researches with 71 semi-structured interviews. The data was collected from government funded independent
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Chapter-1 PUBLIC SECTOR IN INDIA (Overview & Profile) -1- PUBLIC SECTOR IN INDIA 1.1 EVOLUTION These included the Railways‚ the Posts and Telegraphs‚ the Port Trusts‚ the Ordinance Factories‚ All India Radio‚ few enterprises like the Government Salt Factories‚ Quinine Factories‚ etc. which were departmentally managed. 1.1.1 Prior to Independence‚ there were few ‘Public Sector’ Enterprises in the country. 1.1.2 Independent India adopted planned economic development policies in a
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Describe the SWOT analysis and the VRIO model and compare them. Highlight their main similarities and differences. (25 points) (A 1½-page response is required.) Student’s Response The SWOT analysis is used to describe the Strength‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats that face a corporation. The purpose of this analysis is to identify the particular competencies that the corporation has as well as to identify the opportunities that they are facing but unable to take advantage of due to the
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COMES TO THE PUBLIC SECTOR Richard B. Freenan Working Paper No. 1452 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 September 1984 The research reported here is part of the NBER ’s research program in Labor Studies and project in Government Budget. Any opinions expressed are those of the author and not those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER Working Paper #1452 September 1984 Unionism Comes to the Public Sector ABSTRACT This
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PUBLIC SECTOR WHAT ARE PUBLIC GOODS‚ MERIT GOODS AND IMPURE PUBLIC GOODS? WHAT KIND OF A PROBLEM IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS? WHAT ARE THE REMEDIES? A public good is a good or service that can be consumed simultaneously by everyone and from which no one can be excluded—nonrival and nonexcludable. They are determined in terms of their economic rather than their administrative‚ physical‚ normative or financing charateristics. The market will fail to exist for public goods because
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Barney and Hesterly (2006)‚ describe the VRIO framework as a good tool to examine the internal environment of a firm. They state that VRIO “stands for four questions one must ask about a resource or capability to determine its competitive potential: 1. The Question of Value: Does a resource enable a firm to exploit an environmental opportunity‚ and/or neutralize an environmental threat? 2. The Question of Rarity: Is a resource currently controlled by only a small number of competing firms
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Abstract Positive leadership in the public sector is essential throughout organizations when inspiring employees or associates to strive for excellence. Leadership is not a skill that one is born with. However‚ there is a small percentage that one could be born with such a gift. Nevertheless‚ leadership is developed at an early age that leads that is used throughout ones career life. Producing prominent leadership enhances ones ability to perform in a manner that inspires others to achieve as well
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Overview of Central Public Sector Enterprises The government-owned corporations play a pivotal role in the economic development of emerging economies because their participation is higher in the industrial and commercial activities of these economies. Resource constraints and limited scope of the private sector in the early stages of development and planning have set the stage for predominance of the public enterprises in these economies. Thus‚ public sectors in the leading developing countries
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