Apple Inc, later Apple was established in 1977 and was registered on the NASDAQ global Select market exchange (Investor Relations, 2012). According to 10-K Apple form, apple design manufactures and market mobile communication, media devices, portable digital music players, sell variety of related software services, networking solutions and third party digital content and applications (Form 10-K, 2006). Apple products are sold through Apple retail stores, online store and third parties. According to the article published by Cristina A. Cedillo Torres (2011) Apple net sales were estimated at $108.2 million. It 's net sales in 2011 increased by 60% compared to 2010. In 2012, Apple took 70% of all profit generated by smart phone market while Samsung …show more content…
It is the largest manufacturer of electronic in the world. Foxconn is the manufacturer of iPhones and iPads and it employs more than 900,000 workers, out of this 420,000 employees are working at the Foxconn Shenzhen plant. In 2006 the local press of china reported on the excessive long working time and discrimination of mainland Chinese workers by Taiwanese 's superiors (Branigan, Workers killed in blast at China plant of iPad maker Foxconn, 2011). In 2010 May and 2011 several media sources have reported the suicide incident at Foxconn. From 2009 to 2011 a total of 13 workers committed suicide. One of the worker committed suicide after he has been interrogated on the loss of prototype of iPhone 4 that he had in his possession (Moore, …show more content…
These training programs includes the training of managers, supervisors and workers. In these programs managers and supervisors are trained on management best practices like work management communication, anti harassment policies and protecting workers. Workers on the other hand are provided with the information about the local laws and regulations their working rights, health and occupational safety rights. Both groups (managers, supervisors and workers) are informed about the code of conduct during their training. Apple also offered special training on the under labor and chemical safety for workers and managers. apple claimed that more than 2.3 million workers have taken part in such kind of training since
Components of a good staff training program should include an initial needs training assessment, identify individuals that need additional training and type of training, and way to implement training with minimal disruption to the employee and production. Initial training needs assessment should be based on identifying areas of operation where training would be beneficial. After identifying areas where training would be beneficial for the company and employees, short and long term goals of the company and align training based on company goals. After identifying areas of operation where training would be beneficial and identifying company short and long term goals, the initial needs training assessment component must include development training
4. Analysis of strategic capacities of Nikon Corporation This section analyzes the strategic capability Nikon. It starts with a value chain analysis, followed by a VRIN evaluation to determine whether there is any capacity can be sustained competitive advantage. 4.1 Value chain analysis Porter developed the value chain to help determine the internal activities for a competitive advantage, and which are not.
Porters Five Forces Analysis: Samsung Electronics Introduction Samsung Electronics focuses in three specific areas; Consumer Electronics, IT & Mobile Communications and Device Solution. Porter’s Five Forces model has been used to analyse Samsung Electronics competitive position within the global market they operate in. By using this model, an evaluation of their current position will highlight which of the five forces are “affecting the intensity of competition in an industry and its profitability level” (Jurevicius, 2013). Nevertheless, when conducting analysis on an international company such as this, studying of market trends is already carried out thoroughly to ensure that they are fully aware of that market, in order to achieve success and maintain within it. With this in mind, it would be considered that Samsung Electronics would have a relatively good competitive advantage against other rival companies.
2. Analysis of the Marketing Environment Social Forces I. Demographics Samsung phone target audience are age, income and occupation. It is because for age, there might some phone design and functions that does not suit them especially for elderly & children use. However, technology is now advanced, even elderly age more than 50 years old uses smartphone for their own benefits such as health apps and etc. For income, not all people have the ability to purchase better functions and design yet expensive smartphone.
Apple Company Apple Inc. is a private company, and it is one of the world 's most famous technology and computer companies, located in the United States of America. It is a multi-national company. Its main business depends on specialization in manufacturing, producing, developing, improving and selling software, smartphones, computers; It has a series of electronic devices, such as iPad, iPhone and Mac. The origin of Apple Company Founded by Steve Jobs and his co-pilot Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer was able to design a computer in the form of the beginning of Apple computers in the time period Between the years 1981 to 1985; since 2005 until now, Apple has seen many developments; successive successes.
At Apple, Steve Jobs was firmly believed that it is essential to encourage the employees and make them show the best. He always reminded employees that Apple is a good company, it was a honor to become one of the number of this company. It was to make them understand that everyone was noticed. This led employees to believe in their abilities, know their talents so that they could show the best in the
Apple Inc. runs a mobile device business that largely dominates the mobile phone industry. The
Apple on the hand arguably is considered to be the mother of modern smartphones. On June 29, 2007, the cofounder of Apple Inc Steve Jobs announced the release of iPhone, a technology they had been working on for about five years. It was the first of its kind compared to the other players in the market like Blackberry, Motorola and Palm who were already making pocket personal computers. The new tech had a bigger screen, multi-touch interface and the mind-boggling on-screen keyboard was met with a lot of excitement. With these new ideas Apple dominated the phone market and during the Macworld Expo keynote speech, Jobs reported that the Apple iPhone had a 28% market share in Q4 2007 this represented significant growth in the second full quarter that iPhone has been on sale and translated to a
1.0 Introduction Business ethics refers to what is right and wrong, good and bad, harmful and beneficial regarding decisions and actions in organizational transactions (Weiss, 2009). So how to identify the unethical business practices? It is very easily. For example, which are company use child labor, produce tainted products, false advertising, infringement, polluted environment and etc.
1. INTRODUCTION Apple Inc. Official, a famous IT company in the world, began with a computer. They produce electronic gadgets with a good quality and attractive over the year. With their massive success, however, they are actually having problems, regardless internal or external problems.
Then, this company started specializes in much more than just computers. Apple Company invented new products such as iPad in 2001. Therefore, this is a reason that Apple becoming the superiority market leader in music players. In 2007, Apple joined the phone industry with the iPhone. Apple is a huge consumer goods company that evaluating its value requires understanding
This multi-billion dollar company models, develops, and sells high-tech electronics, computer software, web-based services, and PCs. Founded in 1976, Apple’s products have since been desired by millions worldwide. From their mp3 players to their personal computers, and everything in between, Apple has proven itself number one in the technology market. According to NBCNews (2011), Apple is number one because they constantly improve products, have strong relationships with their distribution center, and have sleek product designs. Now, they are outdoing competitors like Samsung, Dell, and Microsoft (TodaysiPhone, 2012).
Today, almost every person caries a smart phone with them and some can’t survive the day without it. There are many companies and manufacturers who build smart phones like the popular ones such as Htc, Nokia, Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Motorola, Sony and many more, but what makes those companies not alike are the phones they release through the years, but are they that different? To compare, let us take an example of two leading rival companies in the field of smart phones, Samsung and Apple, who newly released their flagship devices, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the Apple iPhone 6 plus. The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 features a 5.7 inch Super Amoled touch screen, a 16 megapixel back facing camera, an octa core processor with 3 gb of Ram and a 3220 mah battery whereas the Apple iphone 6 plus comes with a 5.5 inch retina display touch screen, an 8 megapixel back facing camera, dual core processor with 1 gb of Ram and a 2915 mah
Apple, Inc., an American multinational technology company, which founded on April 1, 1976 in California, United States. The company has earned $53 million of income in 2015, which increase $14 million of income compared with 2014 (Apple Inc., 2015). The co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company, Steve Jobs is passed away for the pancreatic cancer (Park, 2011). His leadership and entrepreneurship have successfully developed the company from a small personal computer company to a multinational corporation that selling various types of electronic products and software such as, iPad, iPhone, iOS, and others (Apple Inc., 2016). 1.0 Critical Success Factor
One of the most important players of this competition is undoubtedly the Samsung company. Samsung has been competing for years with rivalries and tending to increase market share with new technologies.