Apple‚ Inc. a) Operational Balanced Scorecard: Apple‚ Inc. Increasing customer expectations and a rapidly changing market are continually putting pressure on Apple to maintain a balanced scorecard. From the information reviewed‚ it is evident both financial and non-financial measures of Apple operations constitute the management of their strategic decisions and evaluations of the cost of quality measures. Using the balanced scorecard approach to define the financial positioning of Apple creates
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Dell‚ Inc. Case Study First: Problem Diagnosis: Over the years‚ Dell has devised very successful strategies to increase customer loyalty and reduce costs. However with the passage of time‚ the company has failed to have a proactive approach to capitalize the opportunities provided by the environment and sustained its competitive advantage. 1. Use of the direct selling approach: This approach has been the main competitive advantage of Dell over the years‚ which enabled the company to create strong
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UNIT IV Internal Environment: Strength and Weaknesses 1. Marketing Distinctive marketing campaigns have been a strategy of Apple to attract customers and to spread the information among them. Television commercials‚ Print Advertisements‚ Posters in Public areas and wrap advertisement campaigns have been successful ways of outshining the new product. Apple continues to command a market premium for producing a “better mousetrap” throughout its history. Steve Jobs personally unveils all new product
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Case Study: NetFlix.com‚ Inc SUMMARY: NetFlix.com‚ the world’s largest online DVD rental company‚ was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in 1997‚ and is headquartered in Los Gatos‚ California. The company started its online DVD rental business by launching Netflix.com‚ offering pay-per-DVD rental services by delivering DVDs via mail. As the company prospered during late 1999‚ Netflix replaced its pay-per-DVD revenue model with a fixed monthly fee system that allowed customers to rent up
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Case Study: LaJolla Software‚ Inc. LaJolla Inc. is a young business information software company based in California outside the Silicon Valley. The company is interested in forming an alliance with a Japanese firm and has for the last several months been negotiating with several firms in Japan to realize their goals of distributing their product in Asia. The owners have finally found a Japanese firm that will create an alliance with them. The firm is now sending a contingent of managers to
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Behavioral Sciences | Apple Inc. | Group 1 Project | TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 3 External Environment 3 Customers 3 Suppliers 4 Competitors 7 Regulatory Environment 8 New Entrants 8 Substitutes 10 Conclusion 10 INTRODUCTION Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics‚ computer software‚ and personal computers. The company’s best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers‚ the iPod‚
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INTRODUCTION OF PFIZER INC Pfizer‚ Inc. Type Public (NYSE: PFE) Founded Brooklyn‚ New York‚ USA (1849) Headquarters New York City‚ New York‚ USA Key people Jeff Kindler‚ CEO David Shedlarz‚ VC Ian Read‚ Pres. of Pharma. Martin Mackay‚ Pres. of R&D Industry Health Care Products Accupril® Lipitor® Viagra® Revenue ▲$48.613 billion USD (2007) Net income ▲$8.298 billion USD (2007) Employees 106‚000 (2005) Slogan Working for a healthier world™ Website www
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Pierre Barrielle Lululemonathletica‚ Inc Case Study. 1. Summary of Case: Background information: Lululemon is a Vancouver based company with over 201 locations most of them located in North America‚ the rest in Australia‚ New Zealand and Japan. The company is valued $ 1.59 Billion dollars. The company was founded in 1998 by Chip Wilson‚ one year after selling his surf‚ skate and snowboard apparel company‚ he started taking Yoga classes which he really enjoyed but found the cotton clothes completely
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WAL-MART CASE STUDY ANALYSIS SWOT STRENGTH ▪ Information Technology : They have a strong information technology system as implemented EDI‚ Information system‚ UPC at POS‚ Satellite system‚ Pick to light system‚ Vendor management inventory system which was not implemented by any other competitor. ▪ Supply Chain (Strong). They had a long term relationship with the supplier as there was no non sense negotiator as they eliminated the manufacture representative from negotiation with the suppliers
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the case of Chemalite‚ Inc. we analyzed the financial data provided by one of the largest stockholders of the company‚ Bennett Alexander‚ and the company’s bookkeeper. According to given expenditures‚ transactions‚ cash outflows and other related financial information; we prepared transaction journals‚ T-accounts‚ income statements‚ statements of financial position and statements of cash flows for the six months ended June 30‚ 2003 and for the year ended December 31‚ 2003. We
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