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Like most other competitors in this industry, Apple's KSFs though slightly different should be on par with the ones as mentioned above. The iPhone consists of a revolutionary mobile phone, an excellent internet communication device and a widescreen iPod controlled by…

QUESTION 1 IDENTIFY AND EXPLAIB ANY THREE (3) MANAGEMENT FUNCTION PERFORMED BY STEVE JOBS IN APPLE INC The job of management is to support an organization makes the best use of its resources to achieve its goals. All managers must have the abilities to recognize performance problems and opportunities in daily event , make good decisions and act appropriately. In the case of Steve Jobs in Apple Inc, management functions that he performed includes and not bound to planning, leading and…

explain in a sort of foreshadowing sense that “we’re going to revolutionize human communication”, and he was not wrong (WGBH.org). The company created the iPod initially, which essentially transformed how people thought of portable music and how people listened to music. The iPhone was developed at a later date, which combined features of the iPod with that of a phone and a computer (investopedia.com). It could be safe to assume that the iPhone is one of the most well known and used phones…

Competition Direct Competitors The iPod Nano is a rather accessible device and is still effective in the provision of music for that reason it has competitors. Many are aware of this, and many find interest in recording their findings, iPhone/iPod expert Sam Costello being one of them. Costello’s study found: Microsoft is still pursuing in that field with its Zune device, Sony with the Walkman E Series, iRiver with the iRiver s100, and Creative Labs with the Creative Zen X-fi3 (Costello, 2015).…

The biological parents of Steven Paul Jobs were told to give him up by the parents of his biological father. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs on the promise that they would make him attend college. He was mischievous as a teenager, but grew interest in building things. He would take apart different appliances to learn how they worked and how to build them. At just age 13, he was given a job for the summer working at Hewlett-Packard. In 1967, Jobs met Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak became…

sink in. He led his team to do the impossible and made it possible. He changed the focus of the group from profit maximization under the influence of Sculley back to making innovating products that customers wanted, which included the iMac, PowerBook, iPod, and lastly the…

Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was a man of great intelligence and a crazy amount of creativity, he is the kind of guy that could solve any problem with the greatest possible solution. Except he had quite a bit of anger problems with his employees and his partners. He set a tone for a business that will last forever, and he will forever be remembered as one of the smartest guys to ever live. Through his dedication to the science of computer technology, Steve Jobs has created an easy way for people…

Company’s History and Growth Apple Computer was founded in April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on 1977, but be re-named Apple, Inc. on 2007, to reflect its stance to shift away from computers towards consumer electronics and software products. Its success did not last long. During 1985, Apple approached bankruptcy due to a series of product flops and CEO changes. The products flopped as Apple Computer, Inc. was lack of…

always had an eye for productivity. As seen with how he questioned the trade-offs with European washing machine and its efficiency. He would later bring Apple to great resurgence and popularity with the introduction of the first Macs and iPods in the early 2000's. Jobs gave constructive criticism on areas of improvement. He was someone who held nothing back, one with sore eyes. "That was…

on the market. The reception of Apple products by the consumers was phenomenal, because Apple didn 't create the first digital music player yet the success of the iPod and iPhone allowed the company to own 63 percent of the market shares in 2010 and by 2012 apple shared 24.2% of the worldwide market. Consequently, the success of the iPod and iPhone also gave consumers the incentive to look into purchasing other Apple products such as the MAC (Thomas et al.…