Apple Inc is a multinational organization in America and has its headquarters in California. The organization specializes in the design as well as development of consumer electronics including: computer software 's, and also personal computers. The organization has for long been offering a broad range of communication mobile communication as well as its own company software’s. The organization has quite an upright name in the business world. For a long period it has been producing quality product and their designers really bring out uniqueness in their products (Linzmayer, 2004). Apple Inc has established itself as being the world’s leader in innovation. Thus according to statistics; it is classified as being the fourth most valuable technology …show more content…
The organization has had to ensure that it has retail stores in many countries globally and website options in more than 100 countries. The company further enhances access of online stores in more than 37 countries which is accessible all the time and people are able to access the services regardless of their location. Globalization further affects the organization in the sense of international market management which requires it to engage in strictly global decision making. The organization’s production networks have been geared to enhancing global competition (Lüsted, 2012) .The Company is further good when it comes to seizing the opportunities available in global market. For the organization to find efficient as well as cheap means of production, it has to bargain hard so as to allow its contractors to have low profits. This mostly is consequential to the suppliers cutting corners with the use of cheap …show more content…
For the purpose of achieving this, it has set out strict policies and procedures that ensures that all the companies that it has business with should provide the safest working conditions for its workers, should treat the workers products which are fairly and that they are supposed to use the environmentally responsible manufacturing processes, as long as it is an area where Apple products are being made (O 'Grady, 2008). The organization’s mission is to produce very high quality goods, at significantly low
Apple Computer Inc designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers and related personal computing and communication solutions. The return of Steve Jobs, the companies founder, as CEO has pulled the company’s stock price up 775-percent through his launch of innovative products such as the iMac computer line. On January 5, 2000, Jobs announced that he was dropping interim from his CEO title and taking the job full-time. With this news and Apple’s new products such as the iBook, a portable pc and Quick TV, an internet television access feature, Apple Computer is headed for success and is sure to increase their share in the computer market.
Globalization can not only affect a company opening an office in another country but it can affect a small local business as well. As the internet brings the world closer together it becomes far more likely that a business that opened with no intention of selling internationally will have customers form different parts of the world asking for their product. For instance a steel company located in Pennsylvania may suddenly find orders coming in from South American factories. How the steel plant chooses to handle this new international customer could mean ...
Apple Incorporated is one of the largest and most powerful brands on the planet, and are among the technological empires leading the charge in future tech developments. It comes as no surprise that Apple is the most profitable technology company on the planet, with their annual net profit exceeding $50bn in 2015 (Chen, 2015), and that figure continuing to rise with each passing year. Due to this stature, it is surely correct to assume Apple have the responsibility to set a certain precedent when it comes to the obtainment of required materials, creation process of their products, treatment of their workforce, and other similar day-to-day elements of running a multinational company. These create the foundation on
Apple’s maintenance of its image in the global marketplace comes with a price on how ethnically Apple conducts business practices while promoting environmentally safe products for the consumer. Apples’ Code of Conduct, voluntarily executed, exemplifies to the global market, investors, regulators, that Apple’s standards and codes of environmental conduct are universal. To maintain Apples’ universal symbolism, systematic inspections into Apples’ supply chain, conducted regularly, are to expose violations of its work ethics not surpassing apples’ comprehensive standards established for its suppliers.
In fact, about this business one can easily write a few weighty books. Without exaggeration, we can say that Apple is one of the brightest technology companies that appeared in the 70s of the last century. Due to innovative technology and aesthetic design, Apple Inc. has established a unique reputation comparable to the cult in the consumer electronics industry. In 2014 the company was ranked first in the world by market capitalization. The concept of the brand is built around the slogan 'Think different’ (Linzmayer, 2004).
Apple Inc. is located in Cupertino, California and was established in 1976. Apple Inc. designs, manufactures and markets mobile and media devices, personal computers and portable digital music players. They also sell a variety of related software, services, and networking solutions. As of this writing, Apple Inc. is the first United States Company to reach a market valuation of over seven hundred billion dollars (Higgins 2015).
Investing or venturing into the international market involves critical analysis of the internal and external environment in which the company operates. Usually, a company will decide to venture internationally due to a saturated market or fierce competition in the current country of operation. The demand for a company’s products may have diminished as a result of an economic crisis thus the company will target a foreign market to sustain its sales. In other words, the firms expand internationally to seek new customers for its products. For example, the current Euro zone crisis led to low demand in Europe and many companies extended their businesses to emerging markets where demand was high. A company may also venture in the international market to enhance the cost-effectiveness of its operations especially for manufacturing companies that will benefit from low costs of production in developing world. Global expansion is a long term project as it involves demanding logistics to be successful. Thorough research must be undertaken to ensure that the expansion will create value for share...
Major developments in microprocessors, telecommunications (satellite, optical fibre, wireless etc.), the internet and World Wide Web (WWW), have facilitating improved communication, information processing and transportation for international business. I see this to be greatly beneficial to improving the nature of international business, establishing greater efficiency and opportunity for global success. Technology can provide greater efficiency due to the reduced costs of production (microprocessor advancement and Moore’s Law) which have become a possibility through technological advance. I believe the internet and WWW to be one of the biggest influencers of globalisation since the 1990s. This platform provide the opportunity to increase offshoring, produce innovative products and better organize the flow of production along a global supply chain (as Komatsu took advantage of, Hill et al, pp.24), and in addition to the cost savings, enables small businesses to develop and compete on the international market. I believe this to greatly alter the nature of business, because it facilitates the growth potential of smaller enterprises, increasing their involvement in internationalism, allowing them to enter the global market and successfully compete because of the benefits and reach of the internet and web. In using Hill et al’s (2014) words, the web has become an equaliser, it limits the
is yet to reach its maximum potential. Truly a unique entity in its accomplishments and organization, apple through the conviction and leadership of Steve Jobs its founder and then CEO; have pioneered the revolution of mobile technology. When it comes to strength, apple Inc, has a great marketing team with great marketing and advertisement capabilities, strong brand awareness, a strong and extensive distribution channel, and most of all a vertical integration and the most obvious which is customer loyalty. With the acquisition of valuable companies such as Beats, WhatsApp, mobile payment systems with the IPhone 6, wearable gadgets like the IWatch, apple uses these opportunities to satisfy its loyal
The paper focuses on the increased complexity of globalized organizations and methods of altering the process within the structure. Business and environment change constantly to sustain development in emerging markets and increase efficiency. Integration of relationships and processes of the world systems, help to manage local, regional and planetary balance to manage duplication of success become conceivable. The retail giant Wal-Mart exhibits its ability to transform the organization asynchronously with the increase integration of globalization.’ Wal-Mart unveils the type of integration possible between globalization, and business services as it adapts, eliminating redundancies and repetitive movement. It observes the effect and influence, propagated on business through it use of supply chains, and influence.
Apple Inc. was established by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak on April 1, 1976 as a computer designer, developer and seller company. However, the company shifted its focus from only personal computer to include other consumer electronics such as portable media player and mobile phone in 2007. Apple Inc becomes one of the most popular makers in its field since it seems that its popularity has increased according to a report on www.statista.com that Apple Inc’s products sales was generally increasing throughout the first quarter of 2006 to the first quarter of 2014. On the one hand, it has increased its revenue from about 14 billion US dollars to more than 170 billion US dollars in 2013. All in all, the company is highly successful corresponding to its products’ development and their sales growth in world’s market.
There are many role models in the world. They may be individuals or an oranization but their success is inspiring for others and we try to find out the reasons for such a brilliant succes. This is the case with Apple as well tat has enjoyed this status since 1981.
Organisation Analysis Apple - Value proposition and Culture Apple - Company Description Apple Inc., was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on 1976, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites. Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker. “Fortune” magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2012.
The Apple brand name is a household name, the brand value of Apple, Inc. improved to $13,724 million in 2008 from $11,037 million in 2007 (Datamonitor PLC, 2009). Apple is different from its competitors because it produces high quality products, its products are also unique and attractive and this has helped to increase its market shares. Since Apple is known globally, 54% profits come from foreign markets (Datamonitor PLC, 2009). Apple products are easy to use and carry around, majority of its products are light, small and very easy to carry around and it has a major advantage of product diversity, there is something for every one of all ages.
The global economy has enabled customers to enjoy a buyer’s market where the company with the most competitive price possible for a product or service receives orders from customers around the world. The burgeoning world ...