Macintosh computers, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac are few of the popular and admired range of product lines that is offered by Apple Inc. (O'GRADY, 2008)
Human resources work together with other resources in order to foster an increase in productivity, venturing into opportunistic avenues of production, and overcoming threats of insufficiency in skill and expertise within the human resources. The only weakness with human resources within Kraft Foods Company is that these resources are prone to wear and tear and hence needs regular maintenance through motivation and encouragement (Henry, 2007)
The mechanisms of production that are found within production avenues are directed at establishing the best sources of production and efficiency in the company. Therefore, the company has more opportunities in its endeavours of involving new mechanisms of production through technology (Zahorsky, 2009)
Ebay: SWOT Analysis Company Overview Ebay is an online auction site that was founded in San Jose, California. It was first founded as Auctionweb by its founder Pierre Omidyar (Gomes-Casseres, 2001)
Ebay has a strong, loyal customer base, developed largely through brand recognition and reputation for excellent customer service. Ebay's success is undoubtedly a result of its business model (Jones, 2009)
Ebay takes advantage of every opportunity to expand into a new and growing market, including developing nations and other countries. Ebay is currently working on forming alliances with major corporations such as Yahoo (Williams, 2007), Burger King and key computer manufacturers (Ebay Inc
Technological Healthcare is miles behind the curve when it comes to technological innovation, an industry that historically has not been easy to innovate for. There are two key trends that have changed the game just in the last few months, explains Zoe Barry, CEO and Founder of ZappRx, "opening up what could be a landgrab for ambitious startups who want to disrupt the healthcare space"; among these was a new piece of legislation called the HITECH Act, which among other things like encouraging electronic medical record adoption, forced some of the major players such as Amazon's Web Services (AWS) to make technology that other tech entrepreneurs depend on heavily, finally available to those working in healthcare (Pozin, 2013)
The FDA has a very broad mission as an organization, which can make effective use of organizational resources a challenge. Opportunities In 2011, Congress passed a law calling "for the FDA to significantly step up scrutiny of domestic and imported food and devise a new system aimed at preventing the kind of contamination that sickens one in six Americans every year" (Layton 2011)
In this line of thoughts, Dell manufactures products in accordance with the customer specifications. The fact that they can order customized computers and accessories further increases customer loyalty, organizational profits and reputation (Cuizon, 2009)
1 million laptop batteries were withdrawn from the market for fear that they might ignite. The same year, Dell profits decreased by 51% and the stock also plunged (Kirkpatrick, 2006)
To ensure then the full protection of the hardware items, they would pack the products in large packages. This however brought severe criticism from environmental organizations which argued that Dell was wasting precious resources that were already scarce (Murray, 2008)
The Internet is great opportunity for Dresser-Rand to communicate with customers in a much quicker time period, 24 hours a day. They can also send things through the Internet and therefore exchange information about orders, shipping, and any problems that may arise (Frost and Strauss, 2000)
Politicization The top leadership of the organization has in the past been accused of political interference. For instance, there are those who believe that HRC has been co-opted by the Democratic Party (Sullivan, 2009)
The Tresemme brand has good positioning, too, with its "professional affordable" positioning resonating well with its target audience (Neff, 2010). A strength of the Tresemme dry shampoo product in particular is that it receives its own advertising push from the company, focusing on triggers such as "never hide your hair again" to which the audience relates (Wong, 2010)
Tresemme SWOT analysis Tresemme has a number of strengths from which it can build its marketing strategy. The first is that the brand is a family brand, covering a wide range of hair care products (Neff, 2010)
Personal selling will use messages with details of the company history, the manufacture method, and age of the teddy bears, and the quality assurance. Thirdly, involves the creation of a desire for the teddy bears through promotional strategies and focused advertisements (Kaur, & Sharma, 2009)
Question 5 a) Globalization Globalization is internationalization of most of the business processes or economic activities like production, communication, logistics, across national boundaries. Globalization entails the expansion of labor sources, establishment of a global brand, creation of a global consumer, development of per capital income in other nations, utilization of trading blocs and free trade across borders (Osland, 2003)
The skills brought to the company by the two daughter's and the strengths and opportunities will assist the company in reducing its overhead costs, train a fast workforce, and realize higher returns on investments. b) Organizational culture A factor influencing organizational culture is the masculinity/femininity concept from Hofstede theory (Zabid, Sambasivan, & Azmawani, 2004)
However, they have been targeted to different demographics and have different relative strengths (and weaknesses) when compared with one another as well as with competitors. Strengths The iPhone 5S has been called "Apple's heavyweight competitor to the Galaxy S4" of Samsung (Briggs 2013)
It has also shown particularly strong returns in specific national markets such as the UK where it is outselling the iPhone 5C by a three-to-one margin (Briggs 2013). The iPhone 5S is considered technically superior has a faster processor than the iPhone 5C and while the 5C is still fast, the iPhone 5S has an edge (Costello, 2013, 7 key differences)