Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple Inc., and serves on Apple’s board of directors. He is considered the head of the most profitable business in America. After the retirement of Steve Jobs, Tim took over Apple Inc. in August of 2011 with a salary of 10.28million dollars and net worth of 785 million dollars. (“Tim Cook.” Biography.com) He has been acknowledged for a great deal of achievements that led up to his position in the Apple Inc. Tim Cook graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor's…
success. In any case, Apple has developed a firm grasp of their strengths and is now a force to be reckoned with. Initially, Apple’s popularity exploded in 2007 with the release of the iPhone (Berger, 2011). Additionally, other products such as the iPod, iPad, Apple Watch, and MacBook have all been successful. Evidently, Apple has asserted dominance over the market niche and have been projected to sustain for upcoming years. In relevance to Apple Pay, innovation can be used to address multiple…
determines capabilities in change management, new rules and new strategies. In Apple’s case, workforce is effectively developed into an organizational culture that ensures rapid innovation. Such improvement is apparent in terms of products like the iPhone, iPod, and other Apple devices. While the Apple’s organizational culture usually contributes to corporate strengths, it also brings challenges to the company. Nevertheless, Apple has been steadily fine-tuning its organizational culture to…
Organizational structure refers to the way of arranging people and assigning responsibilities to perform work and meet goals in an organization, it is particularly important for the large organization, where decisions need to be made in many tasks, unlike in the case of a small organization that day-to-day communication is frequent and formal structure is unnecessary (Distelzweig, n.d.). In order to explain the concept of a good organizational structure, two organizations are chosen for…
Minimalism Benefits Our Lives Do you remember when the time Apple Company’s electronic products emerged was? How do you feel when you see people around you are holding iPhone, Apple Mac, or iPod? When did you have the first Apple product? Why do you choose Apple? What makes you switch from other brands to Apple? If you have answers like “because Apple’s products look good and they are easy to realize what I want.” in your mind, then you already have a sense of what is minimalism. Generally…
Apple “keeps driving to improve and evolve the iPod range. For example, Apple switched to flash memory and away from the hard drive that had enabled the original model to be a success” (Fogg). Another author suggests that the reason Apple products are in such high demand is because “Apple is more than…
In modern society, no matter in real life or in the online world, advertisements are ubiquitous and incessantly remind people of their social status as consumers. Among the advertisements, some of them try to convince people of donation to charity, some of them aim to win votes for political groups while most of them attempt to promote the sale of products. With the advertising influences, people are caught up in the vicious circle of constantly consuming goods, even goods they do not really…
Introduction Apple Inc. is known as the largest tech giant world over for its best quality products like iPhone, iPad, watch, Mac computer and smart TV, etc. Besides 115,000 employees in the US, its suppliers employ more than 1.6 million people in 20 countries. Apple has a set code of conduct to be followed by all its employees as well as suppliers. It helps to keep a balance in the decent workplace to avoid any discrimination based on race, color, ethnicity, age, nationality, sex,…
The Digital Camera The digital camera is one of the most useful inventions. According to BBC News, Samsung proclaims that 2.5 billion people or more in the world have a digital camera. The digital camera was invented by Steven Sasson, an engineer for Kodak, in the year of 1975. Before the digital camera, the world’s cameras used rolls of film. This means that people had to buy film. Film was pretty expensive, so not everyone could take pictures. There were a few types of film. There was black…
Introduction The Virgin Group Richard Branson has started his business as a recording studio in 1970 with Nik Powell. During 1970-1980 he expanded his business in to films, books, holidays, airship and hotels. During 1980-2000 the business has further expanded in to Bridle ware, car and mobiles. Currently the virgin group is enjoying 53 Million customers worldwide, 69,000 employees in 35 countries and 16.6 billion of Euro revenue per annum. 37 million people are following virgin through social…