There are various comments on the Kodak’s business failure that Kodak was late to adapt to the wave of digitalization. Kodak noticed its failure to adapt to the wave of digitalization. But Kodak noticed the coming of the digital age in 1970s and invented a digital camera, the first in the world in 1975. Kodak aggressively entered into new business, and promoted M&A, but they could not make use of these strategies for the profit center. Why couldn’t Kodak transform itself at the time of digital revolution?
In 1960 Mattel became publicly owned and was listed in the New York and Pacific Coast Stock exchange. Only 5 years later Mattel made a sales top of 100 Million US Dollar and joint the “Fortune 500”. 1986 they acquire the Hong Kong based industry ARCO and create a joint Venture with Bandai, Japans largest toy company. In 1997 Mattel’s Global Manufacturing Principles were established. Mattel is the first global consumer products company that established a framework within which all of the company’s manufacturing must be conducted and who applied such system to its facilities and core contractors all over the world.
How did Philips become the leading consumer Electronics company in the world of postwar era (when many companies were emerging like GE, RCA, EMI, Thomson, Grunding, Hitachi, Toshiba etc.?) What distinctive competence did they build? What distinctive incompetency? During WOII the Germans had bombing most of Philips industrial plants in the Netherlands. After this happened the management decided to build their postwar organization on the strength of national organizations.
When he first started making them , he called them “Automatic Binding Bricks” and they were actually a modified design off of a British inventor who created a similar product called the “Kiddicraft brick”. The lego as you know it today was patented on January 28th 1958 at 1:58 pm the original lego plastic brick was born. Yet following their founder's famous motto “ det bedste er ikke for godt” which means, only the best is good enough meant that until a suitable plastic material was found , they wouldn't focus on them. Well five years after the patent was filed, they finally found the perfect plastic for the LEGO brick, it was called cellulose acetate. All LEGO bricks made after 1958 are compatible with todays mass produced bricks as well.
BTEC National Diploma Media Production Year 1 – Semester 1 Unit: Understanding the Media Industries Assignment Title: Essay on Media Organisation Describe the impact of satellite TV on British Broadcasting, Reflect on regulation and deregulation and the impact multi-channel TV has had on advertising and viewing figures. In July 1962 the first transatlantic transmission took place, accomplished by the Americans, Telstar was the first satellite to broadcast a television signal from the USA to Europe, allowing live pictures from Washington, Ontario and Chicago to be seen in 16 European countries. Telstar was an orbiting satellite, which meant windows for transmission were very short. However, in 1963 the satellite Syncom II was launched into synchronous orbit, a geostationary satellite that allowed for longer transmissions, its first broadcast being the funeral of the recently assassinated American President John.F Kennedy. Thanks to the Intelsat series of satellites, since 1965 transmission was possible for 18 hours a day.
The company began to build factories in other locations in the United States because the demand for products had outgrown the capacity of the Cincinnati facilities. The company moved into other countries, both in terms of manufacturing and product sales, becoming an international corporation. 1879 - P&G launches its first branded product, Ivory Soap. 1901 - King C. Gillette creates the KC Gillette Razor. 1923 - P&G becomes one of the first companies to advertise on commercial radio.
How could Mattel have achieved greater success in Japan? Mattel faced the complex distribution system and intense competition from Japanese brands. At first, consumers did not know much about Barbie so Mattel enlisted the service of Takara, a Japanese toy specialist. Mattel learned that Barbie’s legs are too long and her chest is too large: They changed Barbie
Choices were few in the information was scarce. Then came the radio and about the same time World War I started. Use of this mass media was censored by the government and not until the end of the war public was allowed to own and use a radio. When the war ended and the radio became the main source of information, it was joined by another technological marvel – motion picture. Even though this mass media was also heavily censored once the World War II started, it proved to be an invaluable resource for all sides.
It was not until many years later in 1947, AT&T’s research arm, Bell Labs, introduced the idea of cellular communications (Web Corp.). Then in 1954, researchers with communications giant, Motorola, began work developing portable communication products. In 1967, one of those researchers, Martin Cooper, invented the portable handheld police radios used by the Chicago police department (Web Corp.). In “Biography: Martin Cooper,” George Leard writes that Cooper was born in Chicago, IL on December 26, 1928, and earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Thanks to Cooper’s invention, Motorola and Bell Labs were now in a race to incorporate the new technology into portable devices (Web Corp.).
This was all before the development of the 35mm camera invented by Oskar Barnack in 1925. Oskar worked for a German company Leitz and specialised in optical devices. He was an amateur photographer who was disadvantaged by the heavy camera equipment of the day. (Huds, 1990)This led to the decision to invent a small prototype portable camera but he had to put this off due to the onset of World War 1. In 1925 he created and named the Leica camera (combination of Leitz and camera) and it was an immediate and ultimate success.