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Leading and Managing Change/Problem Management and Decision Making In the mid 1990s, the Mac product line was complex with various models across poorly defined categories such as home, school, work and portable, which contravened standardization. In addition to the complex product line, there was a continuous effort by Apple to create a more promising Mac operating system which involved joint efforts with other companies and initiated Copland. It did not get beyond the early development stage…

It was February 1946 when John Maulchly presented to the public the ENIAC, a room-sized elaborator, that we can call the first computer.It was expensive, bulky, and oftentimes technically prohibitive machine. All that was requested from it was to compute numbers. Like Darwin theorized the evolution of man from the apes, computers evolved too. They got cheaper, smaller, and easy to use. They acquired monitors and peripherals, a lot of plug-ins peripherals that became a common possession for the…

When someone says the word apple, what comes to mind? An apple from a tree, or the brand that has made some of the most influential moves in the world of technology? In most cases, whether to admit or not, most individuals will think of “Apple”, the company with the white portfolio of an apple that has been bitten. What has made Apple such a successful brand? The answer is simple, they have some pretty good marketing strategies, along with some of the most innovative technology. Although the…

The essay I am here to write is a synopsis of the documentary entitled “Triumph of the Nerds”. Which is about the history and development of the Personal Computer, along with the lives of the people he helped give birth to this new industry? This finally put into the hands of normal people the power of the digital computer to better humankind. The computer industry started in the minds of the hobbyist who world was electronics, the world of 1960’s counterculture and intellectualism of this new…

What is Steve Jobs’ role in Apple’s strategic management? 1. Steve Jobs managed its intellectual capital which play as the role of the spirit of Apple products. An important aspect that relates the leadership to strategic management of an organization is the intellectual capital. For him managing the intellectual capital involved the capability to give proper direction to knowledge absorbed in the organization. So that create innovative ideas and evolution of these ideas into final products.…

Apple is a Public Limited Company, found by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, which design, develop and sell their goods worldwide and operate in telecom and technology industry. Their headquarters are located in Cupertino, California, USA Apple, being a successful technology and telecom company in the secondary sector who have lots of capital, have chosen to be a Public Limited Company because companies usually become public because they get more capital by selling their shares to…

Corporate transparency Opening case study: Apple In the early 1970s, Xerox developed world-changing computer technology, as well as the mouse and the graphical user interface. (Modern GUIs include Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.) One of the devices was called the Xerox Alto, a desktop personal computer that Xerox never concerned to market. A decade later, several Apple employees, including Steve Jobs, visited the Xerox PARC research and development capability for three days in exchange for $1…

Abstract Report presents competitive advantages of Apple since Steve Jobs was back to the company. We believe that Apple has several competitive advantages including sustainable competitive advantages. Basing on value chain report presents list of company’s advantages in every department. Our analysis show that the most important advantages of Apple are vertical integration of company from design to purchasing that leads to high quality, superior design that creates products that meet…

Apple is one of the largest companies in the world, and like all great things, it had a beginning, and it started out with only two brave men who decided to take risks. These risks paid off, as Apple is now worth over $700 billion, but there was more than meets the eye to these entrepreneurs. I think that they had their similarities and their differences, but were able to come together to create the largest computer company in the world. However, there were obstacles in the way, and some were…

Apple co-founder,Steve Wozniak Synopsis Steve Wozniak was born in San Jose, California, on August 11, 1950 a partnership with his friend Steve Jobs, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. He founded Apple Computer in 1976, Ronald Wayne, the release of some of the market's first personal computer. Wozniak also personally developed a model for the future, the Apple II, which was established Apple's major players in the microcomputer. Founding Apple Computer The son of an engineer at Lockheed…