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INTRODUCTION Global corporate citizenship is progressively more important in today’s world as companies have a better understanding how it affects their business, brand and ultimately bottom line. A few years ago, a few different developments, mostly in China, have exposed the severe conditions that third-world workers have been withstanding. Apple’s demonstration of good global corporate citizenship over the years has shown an exemplary path for others to follow. Do you think that Apple has demonstrated global corporate citizenship, as defined in this chapter? Why or why not?
Initially making them the highest ranked in technology of their times. Companies often question how they would go about globalizing and succeeding in an establishment that has potential growth within the company. Apple Inc. began globalizing by integrating their worldwide strategy, not only in their products, design,
Marketing Plan – Wal-Mart Marketing Management MGMT-522 Situation Analysis Walmart is one of the largest retail stores. Marketing is critical to their success and important for future profitability. The company offers furniture sales through their online website and makes up only 3% of their sales. Market Summary Fiscal year 2012, Wal-Mart increased their customer traffic and had a net sales of $443.9 billion, and operating income of $26.9 billion. Through dividends and share repurchases, Wal-Mart returned $101 billion to shareholders.
This also alludes to Apple products being utilized with or within other company procedures other than as a stand-alone product. Although this may mean that currently there is a slowdown in producing new products it is definitely a progressive step that many companies are taking, such as Goggle and Samsung. Cook’s approach to distribute the innovation efforts across the company and in multiple ways seems to be working. Under this leadership innovation will take enormous confidence and resources but the outcome will position Apple ahead of the pack – again. The success of this strategy will position Apple to overtake Samsung in many of their
The latter brought even more profit to the company and was followed by iPhone, Mac book and iPad. Those products` popularity helped Apple to become one of the top companies in the world. (Dougherty,2010) Organisational culture There are numerous definitions for organisational culture. For example, Mullins described it as “The collection of traditions, values, policies, beliefs, and attitudes that constitute a pervasive context for everything we do and think in an organisation.“ (Mullins, 2010, p.739) In easier words, corporate culture shows, how things are done in the company. Taken into account Handy`s four types of organisational culture, Apple Inc. has a mixture of power and task cultures.
Apple SWOT Analysis Chart Internal | External | Strengths (Positives): * Product Development * Design and utility * Marketing * Brand name * Robust financial performance | Opportunities (Positives) * Loyal Customer Base * Strong growth in smart phone market * Reputation of high quality products * Apple TV * Strong growth in tablets market * Untapped areas of technology world | Weaknesses (Negatives): * Patent Infringement Lawsuit * Dependency on global community * Very Proprietary and controlling * Death of Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs could affect new technology invention and growth | Threats (Negatives): * The rise in popularity of Google Android * Intense competition may affect revenue and profitability * Dependency of specific suppliers may affect its operations * Highly priced products
In 1980, Apple launched its initial offering (IOP) of stocks to the public, a stride that gave Apple a huge success. (Harrison and Rose 1998) Apple Computer Inc. is known for its innovative and proprietary hardware and software and has made great achievements in recent years. In 2009, a study by Qumer (2009) revealed that, Apple topped Fortune Magazines’ most admired companies list for the second consecutive year and also has received a top rank in innovation and people’s management. In the same year, it was reported that Apple posted revenue of $8.34Billion and a net profit of $1.23Billion (Qumer 2009). On the 24th of June 2010, Apple launched its new product, iphone 4 and barely four days after the launch has
It always had a reputation for encouraging individuality, innovative ideas and excellence, which in turn attracted many talented workers. But according to Business Insider article, “What Apple Employees Say about the Company's Internal Corporate Culture” Richard Francis, formerly worked at Intel who worked on a project with Apple said “The atmosphere is not as zanily creative as you might imagine. It's very structured, very process driven.” Apple employees are usually specialists who are not exposed to other functions outside their area of expertise because Steve believes in having “best-in-class” employees. Brandon Carson, a contractor at Apple said "They desire and demand a collaborative atmosphere. Your work is
Assessment Task 1: Identify marketing opportunities PART A 1. Market and business needs 1. Market share and competitors’ information Recent years have witnessed a fundamental shift in the structure and dynamic of the global smart phone landscape. Apple is a notable exception to this dynamic, but has nonetheless created an ecosystem in which its strength in content and services is helping to create industry-leading profit margins for its hardware. A third of the value of the smart phone market today is captured by Apple, which had a 28 percent operating margin in 2013, while the majority of other first- and second-tier manufacturers — with the exception of Samsung — hovered around the zero profit line.