Download or read book Apple Inc An Analysis written by Md. Rajibul Hasan and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: A, University of Kent, course: Masters of Business Administration, language: English, abstract: This paper looks at Apple Inc., which primarily operates in U.S. and involves in development, design, and marketing of computers, portable digital music players, and media devices. It evaluates the macro environment in which Apple Inc. is operating with the help of the PESTLE analysis. Next, it studies the strength and competitive positions of Apple Inc with the help of Porter’s five forces analysis. Later, a SWOT analysis is conducted to understand the micro environment of Apple Inc. Finally, Comprehensive analyses of financial ratios and share performance are conducted to understand the financial condition and the stock performance of Apple Inc.
Download or read book Business Analysis of Apple Inc written by Judith Zylla-Woellner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 2,0, Berlin School of Economics and Law (Lord Ashcroft Institute of Management), course: MBA Seminar, language: English, abstract: The story of Apple Inc. started in 1976 and has been characterized by a long line of successes, especially in recent times. However, the news that Apple’s Managing Director Steve Jobs has had to resign caused Apple stocks to drop by 5% (down from $400), which shows how great an impact cofounder Steve Jobs had on the company and its destiny. Nonetheless, Apple continues to be the world’s most valuable company. 1 Apple Inc. is an American multinational company which provides personal computers, software and especially consumer electronics. Today, the company has 49,400 employees worldwide and managed to increase annual sales to $65.23 billion in 2010.2 Apple’s winning mixture of extraordinary products, great style and design, grand strategy, innovative marketing, and inviting communications is basis of this paper’s analysis. Apple owes its overwhelming success in the last years to the iPhone, iPod and iTunes product combination.3 Apple’s success is inextricably linked to Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs has been the great mind behind the company and one of the cofounders who turned Apple in one of the most innovative and successful companies. [...] 1 http://www.macnews.de/newsticker/steve-jobs-rucktritt-apples-aktienkurs-bricht-ein-239783 2 http://phx.corporateir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9Njc1MzN8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1 3 www.apple.com
Download or read book Apple SWOT Analysis written by Adam Tar and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A+, Webster University, course: BUSN 6120-2R, language: English, abstract: When reflecting on technology, and the progress that we have made in the last ten years, it is hard to imagine where we would be today without it. We as a society have integrated technology into our lives every single day. A large part of this is due to the ability to connect to the world with our fingertips whenever and wherever we may be. Whether we are surfing the web, listening to music, face timing with our friends and or loved ones, or simply checking in on our social networks. Technology has become a norm and a hygiene factor of our society that most of us could not live without. Apple Inc. and its former CEO, Steve Jobs deserve a substantial amount of credit for these changes. They have led the way in innovation, user friendliness, and ascetically pleasing products that many have tried to contend with and have had no success. Apple Inc. has created a brand so powerful, that their products themselves have become fashionable and almost a never-ending trend. Their brand loyalty is so deep that consumers will stand in lines for not hours but, days awaiting the release of the newest product, even if the changes that are made to it are minimal. They are the first and only company to create a line of products that seamlessly integrate together, and are accessible anywhere with a cellphone signal. However, many question the company’s viability due to the recent passing of former CEO Steve Jobs. Will Apple Inc. be able to continue in its predecessor’s footsteps? Or will Apple Inc. dwindle away like last years fashion trend? This paper will examine Apple Inc. using a SWOT Analysis, and will bring to light Apple Inc. areas of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Download or read book Corporate Strategy for Apple Inc Company written by Judith Zylla-Woellner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2,1, Berlin School of Economics and Law (IMB), course: MBA Seminar, language: English, abstract: The story of Apple Inc. started in 1976 and is a quite successful one. The chief character Steve Jobs just recently resigned as Managing Director of this multinational company. These most recent news caused the apple stocks to drop which shows how much impact the cofounder Steve Jobs has on the company and its destiny. Apple Inc. is an American multinational company, which provides personal computers, software and especially consumer electronics. Nowadays this company hired 49 400 employees worldwide.1 Additionally towards the end of the year 2010 the worldwide annual sales equal $65.23 billion1. Apple Inc. has been so successful in these last decades thanks to its fresh, imaginative way to contemplate and do its business. This winning mixture of extraordinary products, great style and design, grand strategy, innovative marketing, inviting communications is basis of this papers analysis. Apple owes its overwhelming victory in the last years to the IPhone and to the smart IPod and ITunes product combination. In the 5 years between 2003 and 2008 the Apple share value increased 25 times, from $7.5 to $180 per share. In July 2008 prices, before the US Financial Crisis, Apple stock market capitalization was $160 billion. In January 2010 Apple shares topped the $210 mark. Just recently Apple was found to be the most valuable company of the world with share prizes of $373. This simple number shows the immense success apple achieved during the past years. 2 [...] 1 http://phx.corporateir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9Njc1MzN8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1 2 http://flatworldbusiness.wordpress.com/flat-education/intensify/case-apple-inc/
Download or read book Sequencing Apple s DNA written by Patrick Corsi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to extract the "molecular genes" leading to craziness! Geniuses are the ones who are "crazy enough to think they can change the world" and boldly go where no one has gone before. Where no past habit and usage are available, there is no proof of viability, as nobody has done it yet, or even imagined it, and no roadmap for guidance or market study has come up with it. The authors call upon Leonardo Da Vinci, the Renaissance genius, who as strange as it seems, shared many traits of personality with that of Steve Jobs, in terms of the ways of performing. Da Vinci helps in understanding Jobs, and hence Apple, with his unique way of designing radically novel concepts, which were actually quite crazy for his time. In order to shed light on a special creative posture, the indomitable sense of specifying undecidable objects – a hallmark of the late Steve Jobs – is what led the authors to match it with a specific design innovation theory. A real theory, backed by solid mathematical proof, exists and can account for the business virtue of a prolific ability to move into unknown crazy fields! The authors postulate that, by bringing the power of C-K theory to crack open a number of previous observations made about Apple’s methods, it is possible to identify most of the genes of this company. The authors analyze how and why an Apple way of doing business is radically different from standard business practices and why it is so successful. Genes are a measure of the entity at hand and can encourage past business education routine approaches, then become transferable across the spectrum of the socio-economic world.
Download or read book Apple Inc written by Brian VanCamp and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case study on Apple, Inc. Sections include: Corporate strategies and objectives, Company information and biographies, Financial analysis, and Strategic analysis and recommendations.
Download or read book Valuing Apple Inc written by Chinmoy Sahu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This assessment provides an opportunity to analyse the future prospects of Apple Inc. and conduct a valuation exercise for its stock. Students are asked to assess the risk, profitability and future potential of the company from the investor's perspective. This assessment is suitable for use in graduate courses in finance area.
Download or read book How well placed Apple is to sustain its recent success in the Consumer Electronics Industry written by Aldridge Menzel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: B, University of Canberra, language: English, abstract: Apple Inc. has been into the electronics business since some decades in the industry. It had built its place in the markets, all over the world through its dynamic strategies that focused on quality and innovation. Apple Inc. has made progress from being a loss making company to being the biggest company in the electronics industry with incredibly high revenues and profit margins. The assignment is going to be based upon Apple Inc.'s case study and its journey as a whole to becoming a successful company. It will highlight the strategies adopted by the company, their adoption of the environmental changes and how it used these dynamics for its own benefits. Apple Inc.'s vision, mission and beliefs as an organization, the company's strengths and weaknesses have been highlighted in the following assignment. Also discussed in the assignment are the changing business and competitive environment and its impact on the company, the challenges it faces in such an environment and, the strategies it adopts to excel in this field. The structures that the company follows, the systems on which it is based on and other operational efficiencies, all play a major role in the Apple growth story. The company is known for innovation and quality. In spite of the premium prices, the company has almost a maximum market share to it and continues to grow up the success ladder with its ever evolving product line which is a mixture of quality, innovation and highly detailed mechanics. Apple continues to not only survive, but excels in the electronics market which, is becoming more and more competitive by the day.
Download or read book Apple Value Chain analysis written by Billy George and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: B, Monash University Melbourne, language: English, abstract: Value chain analysis goes a long way in the categorization of the value adding activities in an organization. This aspect is important with the fact that, firms now increasingly look towards the development of their Sustainable Competitive Advantage based on the value addition to the company’s output at each level of the company (Kaplinsky & Morris, 2001). As the value chain, as explained later in this paper, encompasses the entire organization- classified as the inputs for the primary and secondary activities, the proper analysis of the same is very crucial to the overall development of the organization and its long term sustainability in this competitive world. The analysis of the value chain of the Apple Inc. showed a very critical aspect in the manufacturing and production sector of the company. This is due to the fact that Apple Inc. does not have any manufacturing facilities to produce the hardware for its products. They, instead rely on the outsourcing of the manufacturing to Chinese corporations. This can be very detrimental to the company in the long run. Another aspect that could be improved is the Human resource aspect that makes a part of the support activity of the value chain. Our recommendations would include to build manufacturing units to buffet the firm from external influences, to make changes in the technology aspect by making the operating system open sourced and to have more robust human resource policies to make it very employee friendly.
Download or read book Apple Inc 2018 Company Analysis for Beginners Financial Statements and Financial Ratios Defined Discussed and Analyzed 5 Years written by Paul E. Borosky Mba and published by R-Rated Education. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apple Incorporated is one of the most sought-after stocks in the world. The company's legendary founder, Steve Jobs, is world renowned. Apple Inc. continues to innovate and disrupt its industry under the current leadership of Tim Cook. These circumstances have resulted in the organization becoming an industry leader. For some investors, these circumstances alone, is justification for investing in a company. However, most people prefer to have an in-depth understanding of the company's main financial statements and financial ratios. By understanding the company's financial statements and financial ratios, investors may be better informed before making an investment decision. In this book, we include a review of Apple's last 5 years of financial statements, specifically, the income statement and balance sheet. I mean a line-by-line review. Further, we calculate, define and discuss numerous financial ratios, covering a 5 year time frame, for the company.This book is meant for investors and business students. In our financial statement review, I start off with defining each line commonly included in an income statement and balance sheet. Next, I walk you through analyzing the financial statements, using Apple Inc. summarized financial statements as a guide. Once this is complete, we then discuss financial ratios.The financial ratio section is structured so you can quickly understand the ratio and see how they are applied to Apple. For each financial ratio, I first define the ratio in simple terms. In other words, you will actually be able to understand what the ratio means. Next, I supply you with the formula used to calculate Apple's various financial ratios, for the last five years. I do all the heavy Excel calculations for you. Finally, I analyze the ratio using historical trends. In the end, a thorough understand of the ratios should be achieved.
Download or read book Inside Apple written by Adam Lashinsky and published by Business Plus. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Apple reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products. If Apple is Silicon Valley's answer to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the "DRI" (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs). Based on numerous interviews, the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. Lashinsky, a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune, knows the subject cold: In a 2008 cover story for the magazine entitled The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run The Company Someday he predicted that Tim Cook, then an unknown, would eventually succeed Steve Jobs as CEO. While Inside Apple is ostensibly a deep dive into one, unique company (and its ecosystem of suppliers, investors, employees and competitors), the lessons about Jobs, leadership, product design and marketing are universal. They should appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavor.
Download or read book Global economic Development within the Scope of Apple Inc written by Judith Zylla-Woellner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,2, Berlin School of Economics and Law (Institut of Management Berlin), course: MBA Seminar, language: English, abstract: An organization’s accomplishments are determined by factors within its internal and external environment. A business can increase its success by implementing strategies which influence these factors to its advantage. A successful organization will not only be aware of these existing factors but also anticipate change and evaluate likely effects, so that it can benefit from changes within the environment in which it operates and apply growth strategies. Understand today, shape tomorrow – would be an accurate summary in this correlation. Environmental analysis will facilitate understanding what is happening both inside and outside a company or branch while this knowledge is exploited to ensure economic success. In order to execute an environmental analysis, one must systematically understand how organizational environments are structured. An organization’s environment can be divided into three distinct levels: internal environment, operating environment and general environment. This division will help to grasp a company’s situation. Micro-environmental factors are internal conditions the organization can control, external factor are complex to manipulate. In the following, two of the most common environmental analyses will be carried out and explained, the first being the PESTEL Analysis, and second tool for an external factor analysis is the SWOT analysis. Both will be elaborated in the following chapters.
Download or read book Big Data in Practice written by Bernard Marr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Big Data is back, this time with a unique and in-depth insight into how specific companies use big data. Big data is on the tip of everyone's tongue. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the actionable steps and resources required to utilise it effectively. This book fills the knowledge gap by showing how major companies are using big data every day, from an up-close, on-the-ground perspective. From technology, media and retail, to sport teams, government agencies and financial institutions, learn the actual strategies and processes being used to learn about customers, improve manufacturing, spur innovation, improve safety and so much more. Organised for easy dip-in navigation, each chapter follows the same structure to give you the information you need quickly. For each company profiled, learn what data was used, what problem it solved and the processes put it place to make it practical, as well as the technical details, challenges and lessons learned from each unique scenario. Learn how predictive analytics helps Amazon, Target, John Deere and Apple understand their customers Discover how big data is behind the success of Walmart, LinkedIn, Microsoft and more Learn how big data is changing medicine, law enforcement, hospitality, fashion, science and banking Develop your own big data strategy by accessing additional reading materials at the end of each chapter
Download or read book Management Technology and Innovation Strategic Business Plan for Apple Inc written by Bandar Hezam and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2022 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, , language: English, abstract: This report outlines a strategic business plan for Apple Inc, a renowned technology company that focuses on innovation and accessibility in all its products. The report begins with a background on the company, including its founders and the evolution of its products. The strategic analysis section of the report discusses the company's trends and directions in terms of its political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological contributions, as well as its core competencies. The report also analyzes the company's strategic planning, implementation, and control, as well as its information technology strategies. The report highlights the importance of Apple's innovation strategy, which has been powered by its founder Steve Jobs' empathy and driven passion for reinventing markets. The report concludes with a discussion of Apple's corporate priorities towards managing its technology and innovation, including its commitment to research and development investment and accelerated training environment. Overall, the report highlights the importance of innovation and strategic planning in driving the success of Apple Inc.
Download or read book Apple marketing audit and new service product plan written by Sherry King and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: A, King`s College London, language: English, abstract: This place is responsible for designing, developing and sells technological products which include phones, pcs and applications. Its best-known hardware products: Mac PCs, iPods, iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs. Its customer application includes the OS X and iOS operating-system, iTunes, safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity packages. Apple was established by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Whyne on Apr 1, 1976 to develop and sell pcs. It was incorporated as Apple computers Inc. on Jan 3, 1977, and was relabelled as Apple Inc. on Jan 9, 2007 to reflect its shifted focus towards technology. (Apple, n.d.) Apple is the second-largest technology organization by revenue after Samsung Electronic devices, and the third-largest cell phone maker after Samsung and Htc. Fortune magazine named Apple the most popular organization in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2012.On Sept 30, 2013, Apple organization exceeded Coca-Cola to become the most valuable brand in the Omnicom Group's "Best Global Brands" report. The organization has also received the critique for its contractors' labour methods and also for Apple's own environmental and business methods. (Apple, n.d.) Apple is known for its creative genius and cutting edge work in the field of technology. Apple provides state of the art products which makes it very difficult for its customers to switch over other brands. Highly personalized and smooth functioning products. Since last decade, Apple has launched revolutionary products which have changed the way technology industry functions. Apple has revolutionized smartphone market with iPhone, music players market with different versions of iPods, amazing Mac series and iTunes.
Download or read book Apple Inc Company Analysis written by Melissa Binder and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2011 complete company analysis on one of the most innovative brands in the world.
Download or read book Blue Ocean Leadership Harvard Business Review Classics written by W. Chan Kim and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne broke ground by introducing "blue ocean strategy," a new model for discovering uncontested markets that are ripe for growth. In this bound version of their bestselling Harvard Business Review classic article, they apply their concepts and tools to what is perhaps the greatest challenge of leadership: closing the gulf between the potential and the realized talent and energy of employees. Research indicates that this gulf is vast: According to Gallup, 70% of workers are disengaged from their jobs. If companies could find a way to convert them into engaged employees, the results could be transformative. The trouble is, managers lack a clear understanding of what changes they could make to bring out the best in everyone. In this article, Kim and Mauborgne offer a solution to that problem: a systematic approach to uncovering, at each level of the organization, which leadership acts and activities will inspire employees to give their all, and a process for getting managers throughout the company to start doing them. Blue ocean leadership works because the managers' "customers"--that is, the people managers oversee and report to--are involved in identifying what's effective and what isn't. Moreover, the approach doesn't require leaders to alter who they are, just to undertake a different set of tasks. And that kind of change is much easier to implement and track than changes to values and mind-sets. The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.
