STRATEGIC AUDIT WORKSHEET FOR APPLE INC. Prepared by: MGMT 4480 FALL 2009 I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance: Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26‚ 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion‚ in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent‚ up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago
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organizations today find themselves DATA RICH → INFORMATION POOR → KNOWLEDGE STARVED It can be said today that many businesses are “data rich”‚ meaning that they have more raw data than they know what to do with. Most data rich businesses also find themselves “information poor”‚ meaning that they are not getting any useful information or value from their data. This in turn leads to organization’s becoming “knowledge starved”. In today’s competitive business environment this has many negative effects
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Information & Work-based knowledge To: Maersk Line of Management Alan Ho From: Communication Manager Liu Zuo Jun Subject: Managing Communications‚ Knowledge and Information Date: 28 November 2011 Summary We are continue talking about Maersk Line information and work-based knowledge. Having 2 tasks. Outcome
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Why is strategic management important to a corporation? For many years‚ businesses have been failing and this failure has been attributed to the inability of managers to strategically manage business processes and operations. As a result of these failures‚ more business managers are paying keen attention to strategic management because of its importance to the continuity of a business. Strategic management is a strategy that is focused on long-term planning within an organization that takes into
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Section 4 Information Systems in Organisations Chapter 37 – Management Information Systems Introduction Over the past two decades‚ a transformation to an information society has been taking place‚ and computers and telecommunications technologies have revolutionised the way that organisations operate. We live in an information age‚ and no business of any size can survive and compete without embracing information technology. Information has come to be recognised as a resource of fundamental importance
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Flow……………………………………………………………………………………………….2 3) Cash Flow Forecast table………………………………………………………………………..3-4 4) Importance of working capital management…………………………………………..4 4.1) Methodologies to working capital management……………………………5 5) Benefit of information and knowledge management………………………………5-6 6) Use of ICT in Environmental scanning ……………………………………………………..7 6.1) Use of ICT in benchmarking………………………………………………………………8 8) Difference between conventional and learning organization…………………..9 8.1)
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INTRODUCTION Information or processed data is essential for any action we take. For example when we are travelling in the road somebody can be gifted with knowing the data such as names of the roads and the direction‚ but to use it he or she should use this to make the map which can be considered as the information gathered. The knowledge he or she has on using the map correctly to take the decision of choosing the correct road to travel in. which will be stored the person’s mind as wisdom
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ROLE OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN MARKETING Knowledge is profit. As a general rule‚ the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. It is the same in case of business organizations; the business which has the best available information always has a sustainable competitive advantage. But there is so much information available and very little time. Business Intelligence helps organizations to make better‚ faster decisions about their customers‚ partners‚ and operations
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Business Intelligence Liberty University Abstract The purpose of this literature review is to provide an overall perspective to the workings of business intelligence in a corporate environment. With the onset of massive technological gains in the past decade the implementation of business intelligence has grown accordingly. In the workplace the demand for business process improvement‚ responsive reporting‚ cutting edge forecasting‚ and internal business
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been prepared for “Managing Communications‚ Knowledge and Information” Module. This is designed to support the Managing Communications‚ Knowledge and Information in the organization with additional background reading. According to this Report I try to give some ideas to identify personal weaknesses and improvement to rectifying that to achieve common goals. And I want to give knowledge about new system‚ innovations and new ideas to get right information to the organization. Through this Report‚ I
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