Elisa Richardson Principles of Customer Experience Management Coarse Project Week 4 1.0: Company Status Quo I will briefly explain the content of Apple, a software and hardware consumer electronic. Apple is a similar company I’ve worked for in the past. I truly liked the job and would defiantly for the company again. I was only employed as a contractor seasonal worker. 1.1: Company Background and History On April 1st, 1976 Apple was discovered by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer kit.
James Deen was born Bryan Matthew Sevilla in Los Angeles County, California, and raised in Pasadena, California. [6][7][8][9][10] His father is a mechanical engineer and his mother is a computer electronic engineer,[11] one of them worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. [12] He is Jewish and identifies with Judaism as "a culture more than anything else". [13][14][15] At 17, Deen moved in with his father. He worked at a Starbucks for two years and took classes at Pasadena City College.
Like many people, Steve Jobs had a difficult childhood. Steve Jobs was born on February 24th, 1955 (Kimmel 503). He was born in San Francisco, California. His mom was his Syrian Dad’s girlfriend (Isaacson 40). He was adopted in the same month he was born by Paul Jobs, who was a mechanist, and Clara Jobs, who was an accountant (“Jobs” 319).
Guy and his father built a three-wheeled bicycle cart named “The Awesome Pretzel” which he sold pretzels from, for six years until he had enough money to study at Chantilly Framce at the age of 16. This was during his junior and senior years of high school. When he returned from France, Guy by passed his own high school graduation. When he was done with high school he attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and graduated in 1990. He received his Bachelor of Science in Hospital Management.
He found a job working on programming during the summer with a professor. He then enrolled in graduate school in California at Berkeley. There he made much of the software we use today like the Java Script and Silicon Valley firm Sun Microsystems (Gladwell 35 & 36). The Beatles were looking for an opportunity for a job to play and they got that chance when an entrepreneur met a guy who was looking for bands to play for a night club in Hamburg. In liver pool they only had to play one hour sessions, but when they got a job in Hamburg they had to play for eight hours with practice time.
Company History Jackson Hewitt was founded in 1982 by John Hewitt, who was a former employee of H&R Block. Hewitt was a college dropout, who worked his way up to the position of regional manager after starting with H&R Block in 1969. Mr. Hewitt felt that tax preparation could be improved by the use of computers, so he and his father created a program that would streamline the client interview process. Hewitt tried to sell his software to H&R Block but they would not purchase it so Mr. Hewitt and his wife decided to go into business. They gathered a dozen investors and purchased six-location owned by Mel Jackson's Tax Service of Norfolk, Virginia in 1982, later renaming it Jackson Hewitt.
It was a 99 ford f-150 that I had found in the local auto trader, it was exactly what I was looking for. We were at a shopping mall parking lot waiting for the truck to pull in. I was so excited to see it, I was going to have a car, that I can call my own, not my mom or my dad's car . This was a reward from my parent because I was going to graduate High School before I turned eighteen. We waited for about fifteen to twenty minutes and we hadn't seen
Innovation Strategy Jose University of Phoenix Strategic Planning & Implementation, STR/581 July 22, 2015 Instructor: Dr. Magda Oquendo-Santiago Innovation Strategy The rules of innovation are charging. Apple Inc. somehow knew this year’s before the rest of the world. Apple Inc. has successfully embedded innovation in its DNA. Apple reported in their financial statements that about $75 million was spent in the development of the iPhone. Apple spent money developing a new innovative product that disrupted and changed the electronics market place.
Branch was born to a professional real estate executive and professor that provided plentiful of opportunities; by buying him a personal computer at the age of thirteen to a bike that allowed him to roam to various stores to explore computers programming to develop his “programming techniques.” A Mexican American, Dora Lopez daughter to a shipping/receiving clerk and a part-time bookstore employee has fewer advantages than Branch. Unlike Branch who had his first computer at thirteen, Lopez was first being exposed to a computer at the age of thirteen. Although, both students went to the same university, each had different resources sponsored to them due
Apple | Week 4 | | | | Dustin McCabe | | | APPLE COMPUTER Apple Computer, Inc. Question 1 Describe the key strategic challenges facing Apple Computer. Apple was founded in a garage in the mid 1970’s by two friends who have a vision to make this company huge. At that time the technology industry was very small and not very competitive, but times have change drastically. Apple operates in an industry where the latest and greatest is old news by mid next month.