Essays on Technology Company

Apple is an American technology company that was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976. Apple is known for designing, manufacturing, and marketing of personal computers, software, mobile phones, portable digital music players, media communication devices. They also offer networking solutions and sell third-party digital music and application (Apple Inc, 2015). In summary, Apple’s business nature is manufacturing technology devices, software and providing various services to clients. Apple’s hardware products include Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, and iPad. The software applications offered by the company include OSX and iOS operating systems. Apple also sells ...

Introduction

This paper is an analysis of Apple’s Corporate Social responsibility and Stakeholder relations process. It will analyze the environment within which Apple discharges these activities and how it is affected by the actions of Apple in recent times. This will begin by examining the nature of Apple’s business and operations. This will culminate in the evaluation of Apple’s external environment and stakeholders. From there, the corporate social responsibility concerns of the company will be evaluated.

Nature, Structure and Products of Apple

Apple is an international technology company that has its headquarters in California. It is a major technological company in the world ...

Critical Analysis for Management

Introduction Organizations are entities that comprise of people and/or systems. Organizations are neither a completely harmonious setting nor or they battlefields where conflicts define their structure. Instead, organizations can be stated as something which political negotiations define. Essentially, the very survival within an organization is an act that is heavily influenced by politics. Human and material resources together form an organization. Out of these two most important resources, it is the human resources of the organization who work in transforming the material resources into an end- product or service. For transforming the material resources into finished goods or services, ...

Abstract

This paper is about the strategic management and strategic competitiveness of an organization. Apple Incorporation is an American-based multinational corporation, which is mainly involved in designing, development, and selling computer software, consumer electronics, online technological and user-based services. Apple Inc. is currently the largest information technology company across the globe and second largest phone manufacturer in the world. It relishes a superior brand loyalty and as per 2014, it was the most valuable brand with an approximate valuation of US $ 118.9 billion. The paper discusses how globalization drastically influences the business style, capabilities, proficiencies, expertise, and overall business performance ...

Executive Summary

The background for this paper is the analysis of the "Large Technology Company" referred to as LTC hereafter. The paper looks at the LTC's requirements for an ERP system recommends a suitable ERP solution for the company. Due to the growing complexity of the business environment in most industries and the increased globalization and the resulting internationalization, managing and utilizing information effectively is very important for the success of modern companies. Managing the whole operations requires IS that can integrate both external and internal information into readily available and usable forms. ERP systems are being used by many companies ...

Introduction

Background information Apple Corporation is a Multinational technology company based in the In the United States. The company designs, produces and sells electrical consumer products around the world. Some of the products of the company are iPhone Smartphone, iPod, Macbook laptops, and consumer software such as the OS X and iOS and operating systems among others. The company was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, as well as Ronald Wayne (Apple Info – Apple, 2016).  Link: http://www.apple.com/about/ Apple Corporation is the globally largest information technology company by revenue and total assets. In the last three years, the company ...

There are some companies whose products and service, impacts the global lifestyle in a significant manner, and for this reason, becomes part of the consumer’s everyday life. There are very few brands that connect with consumers on a personal level and on a daily level. Google has been part of the consumer’s life at all times, the mission of Google is to organize the world’s information and make it collectively accessible and useful in an effective manner (Company Overview, 2016). The impact of Google is remarkable that, the name of the company is used as a ...

Introduction about the Company

Honeywell is one of the globally leading US-based conglomerates, with earning revenue of $23.65 billion, as per 2001 available figures. It has numerous products, used in multiple areas of different industry segments and production facilities in all corners of the world. Aerospace is Honeywell’s leading industry segment where its experience of the line benefits the customers all around the world. Otherwise, Honeywell’s technology product range is quite varied. It is a leader in the manufacturing of technology products. Customers around the globe depend on Honeywell for its aerospace control technologies used in towers, houses and industry; automotive ...

**Business 4465**

Be sure to put your name and student number at the top of the email attachment. Your document must be less than 10 typed pages. Please read the questions carefully. Write all you answers in a word document, label all questions carefully. The best answers are those that answer the questions well and concisely using material within the scope of the course and not irrelevant material from other sources or from the internet. Answers that are beyond the scope of the course will receive no marks. Answers that are not written in the own words of a ...

Management in Creative and Cultural Organizations

[TUTOR’S NAME] 1.0 Executive Summary Creativity and culture have long been regarded the lifeblood of organizational success but today diverse practices have changed the global business environment. Apple Company is an American cosmopolitan corporation that designs as well as manufactures consumer electronics, personal computers and computer software. The cultural and creative way of management of the organization is a superb idea to push the world forward. Apple Inc relies on diverse backgrounds and perspectives to spark innovation by choosing partners who make diversity a priority and creating opportunities for the next generation. Apple has constantly been different regarding ...

There are some companies whose product and service, impacts the global lifestyle in a significant manner, and for this reason, becomes part of the consumer’s everyday life. There are very few brands that connect with consumers on a personal level on a daily level. Google has been part of the consumer’s life at all times, the mission of Google is to organize the world’s information and make it collectively accessible and useful in an effective manner (Company Overview, 2016). The impact of Google is such that, the name of the company is used as a reference ...

Holcim Singapore Limited found by merging the National Cement and Eastern Concrete in 2004. The company has specialized in innovative building materials such as cement, ready-mix concrete, wood replacement products as well as the dry mix mortar(Holcim.sg, 2016). Following the increased digital evolution, the company needs to integrate some of the technological changes so as to put-up with the current competitive environment. As a way of enhancing the performance of this company, prefab technology should be adopted and integrated into the current performance of the enterprise (Holcim.sg, 2016). The introduction of the prefabricated technology is crucial for this ...

Management

1. Lou Gerstner Earliest days at IBM In his work, Watkins (2013) explains how one can make a change within a short period of both getting enrolled in a new job, being promoted and even being sent out for an international assignment. This work goes hand in hand with our discussion of the day involving the successful story of the former IBM chief executive officer Lou Gerstner. It was on the 1st of April 1993 when Lou Gerstner took over as IBM Chief Executive Officer. This change of leadership was brought about by the poor performance of IBM in ...

Executive Summary

Apple Inc. is a multinational information technology company that designs a number of IT products such as Mac Laptop, iPod, iPad and iPhones among others. The company employs a vertical integrated strategy hence able to control its operations. The company over the years has recorded major profits and this can majorly be attributed to its motivated employees, leadership structure, negotiation and change management strategy. The company’s continued success mainly stems from its motivated employees. By considering the hierarchy of needs, Herzberg’s two way theory and expectation theory, Apple’s employees are wholesomely motivated. With regards to leadership, ...

Introduction

In any business environment, the players, especially the companies, must strive to gain the competitive advantage in order to withstand competition. Technology companies are faced with another challenge of adjusting with the rapidly changing technology in order to remain relevant in their markets. Such companies must adjust appropriately, both internally and externally. This paper analyses and evaluates the position of HP Company. It analyses the internal and external environment of the company and gives the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. In addition, it identifies one of the problems that the company is faced with and proposes a solution ...