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ABSTRACT

This paper assesses the international organization of Nokia Corporation and the strategy used by it in order to achieve leadership on the global market. The objective of the paper is to analyze the organization of the company at the present time as well as during the past five years, to assess whether it has the resources necessary to become a market leader and to provide recommendations for achieving this goal. The research method used in this paper is a descriptive one. The data was collected from secondary sources, such as books, articles, studies, and the company website. This paper Continue reading...

Facts: Prior to the arrest of the defendant David Riley, a person was injured in a drive-by shooting. Police suspected that the shooting was gang-related. On August 22, 2009, Riley was stopped by police for expired registration tags and his car was impounded and searched once the officer’s learned he was driving with a suspended license. When police found two handguns under the hood, Riley was arrested for possession of concealed and loaded handguns. In a search incident to arrest, a mobile phone was found in Riley’s pocket. The phone was transferred to the station’s gang-unit Continue reading...

An International Perspective in Consumer Behavior

When Apple released the iPhone in 2008, the company expected to sell millions of units in Japan. Apple’s sales projection was based on the company’s market share in Japan. Based on Apple’s previous performance in the country, the company projected that the iPhone would sell in Japan because many locals patronize Apple’s existing products including the iPod and the Mac computers. For this reason, Apple expected to sell millions of units in the country. Nevertheless, after the iPhone release, Apple only sold around 500,000 units, half of the company’s projected sales.
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Personal Navigation Devices

Personal navigation devices provide utility to the user by permitting the application of the device for both navigation and global positioning system functions. Many PDAs are capable of indicating the position of the user. The popularity of the PPNDs has increased with the increased employment of automobile navigation systems. There is a growing need for navigation with the increased complexity of transport infrastructure and mobility. Therefore, people are demanding Personal Navigation Devices to improve their mobility thus enabling better and accurate navigation.
PNDs have incorporated complex functions and feature a range of graphical user interfaces such ass maps, voice Continue reading...

Benefits of BYOD

The benefits of BYOD include maintaining employee satisfaction as most employees prefer using their own technology in all circumstances (Pitichat 2013). The BYOD allows employees to select the platforms they are most comfortable with increasing their job satisfaction. BYOD also provides flexibility especially when employees can perform work-related tasks at different locations. The work-from-home opportunities presented by BYOD will attract new talent and support them as it is a strong selling point. The BYOD also has the benefit of increasing employee productivity. The employees can work from different locations and at different times supporting limitless work schedules. BYOD also Continue reading...

Strength

Conserves oil resources
No carbon dioxide emission/environment-friendly
Helps limit or lower the inflation of commodities
Help reduce the occurrences of calamities due to lack of carbon dioxide emission which lessens impact to global warming
Weaknesses
High cost of vehicles per unit
Lack or very low number of charging infrastructure
Drives changes in consumer lifestyle that are not too acceptable yet
Opportunity
Still a low number of users hence more opportunities for sales growth
There should be a way where in oil-based cars can be redesigned to be an electrically powered vehicles for a lower cost per unit and to Continue reading...

“ ’It’s possible that two children died so that you could have that mobile phone,’ says Jean-Bertin, a 34-year-old Congolese activist who wants to end the “absolute silence” around the crimes committed in his country to exploit strategic raw materials like coltan.” (Benitez, 2012) The need for coltan to mass produce electronics has resulted in heinous living conditions for millions of Africans. The high demand for this raw material has resulted in terrible conflicts and death. Not only has the increase in the production of electronics resulted in inhumane treatment of Africans, it has also severely hurt the environment. Continue reading...

Management Insights on Alibada Group

Nokia is a company that saw many changes from its origins as a paper company to one of the global leaders of mobile handsets. The 1990s were a golden decade from Nokia as the company succeeded in majorly reinventing itself for a fourth time and becoming a world leader in cellular handsets and network technology, exporting their cell phones and products to over 140 different countries by 1998 (Alcacer, Khanna, Snively, 2014). But the markets and products and completion greatly increased at the turn of the millennia. There were both emerging players and emerging technologies which forced a shift Continue reading...

Question 1: A, B, C, D Brands.

Competing brands-Brand A is competing with Brand B, while Brand C is competing with Brand D.
There were all together 700 consumers who purchased Brand A in April. Among them 500 consumers bought Brand A in April and still purchase Brand A in May hence they are loyal customers. There are 200 consumers who purchased brand A in April, but switched to brand B in May. None of the 700 switched to Brand C and D in May after purchasing Brand A in April hence the competition is between Brand A and Brand B. As for Brand B, there Continue reading...

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Introduction

The introduction of different kinds of gadgets demand being ‘online’ in order to maximize its function as well as the application installed within it. Social media networks such as Facebook , Twitter and Instagram force a gadget-hooked individual to remain connected on the Internet to get live feeds on what is happening among their networks. This behavior is not only prevalent within the four corners of the home of a gadget-hooked person but also carried to schools, offices and various public places. Coffee shops install Wi-Fi to further attract customers to avail of Continue reading...

Executive summary

Management is the process of ensuring that the resources of the company are effectively to achieve the goals and objectives. There are various resources which are utilized by the company and they include human skills and financial resources. The aim of any organization is to improve the competitive advantage in the global market. The company should utilize the resources effectively to maximize the output while minimizing the input and this helps to improve the performance of the company. In this report therefore, the report discusses the main concepts of management and resource planning and the policies that can be Continue reading...

Hotels are increasingly targeting the millennials as they see them as being critical in their financial growth. The millennials love being connected to the social media platforms they love communicating with other millennials. The financial aspect that millennials can bring to hotels cannot be understated. The total population of the millennials is in excess of 75 million in the United States only. When this number is added with millennials from other countries, then there is a huge market gap. Additionally, the millennials do not have brand loyalty, and this increases the chances of the different hotels to target them. Continue reading...

Video Game Console Industry in 2012: The Next Round

In 2012, the market for video games consoles took a remarkable direction. Nintendo arose as a leader in the market in the 7th generation of the video games with its Wii console. In this period, there was no any firm that had achieved dominance in the market. The case study provides an insight into the history of competition in the gaming industry and investigates factors that contribute to success. The dynamics of the video games market had changed to a great extent by 2012. The balance of power shifted from console makers to the suppliers, users playing the video Continue reading...

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s infrastructure has been slowing deteriorating over the years due to lack of repairs and maintenance. The condition is blamed on the strife and political instability that the country has been facing for decades . However, before the conflicts arose in Congo though, its geographical state was a hindrance to infrastructural development especially roads, this is because of the vast forest lands and several rivers that crisscrossed the land. Despite this, a private global system of mobile communications has been established within the country and provides a platform for mobile communication for most of the Continue reading...

Why did Google make this move? What do they hope to accomplish?

It was a move aimed at making at satisfying all customers with a better mobile telephone usage. Google wanted to enter the competitive wireless market and ensure that all its customers received quality services. The company expects to attract a much larger clientele than it already has. It will have all its services in new applications that will be wireless. It will help boost sales, increase innovation, and stay ahead of the competition (Gardner, 2007).

How does Google's support for Open Access fit into Google's plans?

Google's plan was to provide a wireless platform for mobile phone users. Google also supported openness in four major ways that fit well into Continue reading...

Employee schedules and customer appointments

Employee schedules and customer appointments
The first strategy that will be adopted is the development of an electronic system for management of employees. Arguably, one of the ways this can be achieved is through setting fixed preferential reporting time for each employee. Each part-time employee sets a fixed schedule of reporting every day. This information can be used to schedule appointments. Buffer employees will be hired to ensure and fill in the part-time posts when needed. Such employees will be put on a wages system by which a piece rate compensation system will be established for such employees.
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How could the new service development process have been improved so that the costly failure described above was avoided?

During the beginning stages of mobile phone development within the United Kingdom, mobile phones had been placed as business approaches, intended towards the self-employed, travelling sales experts as well as business executives, amongst others who required being regularly contactable. The positioning taken up by Cellnet and Vodafone had been highly costly and over mentioned for normal leisure users. As a result, for ensuring success the company should have costs should have been kept nominal than overstating it for the users. The conception wasn’t rigorously test marketed. The development was highly product directed with inadequate knowledge about customer behavior Continue reading...

Apple has been associated with cutting-edge innovation, colorful re-invention, quality and perfectionism. Most of Apple’s products have historically been only affordable to high-end users, especially on the mobile platform. Apple1, a home-created computer built by Steve Wozniak, was Apple’s first product. The second product, Apple2, was significantly more successful than the first because of two factors: the release of the first spreadsheet product and the graphical features of the Apple2. The first spreadsheet application, VisiCalc, was designed specifically for the Apple2 computer and introduced Apple computers as useful business tools. The “killer-app” catapulted the company into public Continue reading...