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1. Executive summary (1 page maximum). (05 marks) This analytical report will detail the case study for Apple in 1997. It will conduct an internal and external environmental scan to show the factors influencing the business position of Apple at that time. In addition, it will discuss the strategic actions done by management at that time. After many remarkably successful years in the business, Apple found itself in a very dire financial situation at the end of fiscal year 1997. Sales have…

This main point is backed up by examples from his personal life. First, Jobs followed his intuition by dropping out of college and taking calligraphy classes. He used those skills in designing the first Macintosh computer with typography. Second, when he got fired from his own company, he realized he still loved innovating, so he followed his heart, started two other companies, and established a family. In both cases, he chose to trust his instincts to drop…

people struggling to survive. However, through the plot of the movie the wives follow Furiosa in order to break away from their dependency on Joe. Similarly, Steve Jobs simply gives Chrisann money in order to silence here basically. Again at the Macintosh event, he denies being Lisa’s father continuously, but still gives her money to buy a house. He continues to keep giving her money throughout the film to get her to stop bothering him about taking care of her and Lisa. In providing Chrisann…

Steve Jobs is an influential person because of his smart choices, his successful company, his work as a entrepreneur, and his determination. Steve Jobs was one of the world’s richest men with a total of $31.8 billion. He was the prideful owner of Apple and even started at age 20 with some of his friends. Even though starting didn’t go so well he kept going and started growing. He also made a lot of brilliant choices to help him grow in more and more fame. Steve Jobs is an influential person…

IBM, which is another software/PC design, surpassed Apple in sales, forcing Apple to compete with an IBM/PC- dominated business structure. In need of a new way out, in 1984 Apple released the Macintosh, advertising it as a piece of a counterculture lifestyle. But despite the numerous sales, it still wasn’t enough to catch up to IBM in the market sales nor compatible. Sculley, the CEO of Apple; later came to a conclusion to fire Jobs form his own…

transformational and transactional. Furthermore, an idea for the Macintosh was created by optimizing a leadership with transformational model and employees were challenged to perform targets beyond their expectations. Then as a compliment, utilization of leadership with transactional style is needed to enable employees through effective schemes put their transformations of ideas into respected products which are well known as the personal computer of Macintosh. It is supported by Hamstra, Van…

Abstract Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs as a “paradigm case” of transformational leadership by comparing the practical met discourse of remembrances published at the time of his passing to the theoretical met discourse of transformational leadership. This assignment of transformational leadership characteristics that appeared in characterizations of Jobs in the months after his passing in October 2011. Jobs as a leader and as one whom possessed and very motivational, three key…

Apple CEO Tim Cook takes some time to remember one of the most memorable American inventors of all time, Steve Jobs. The Apple businessman passed away on Oct. 5, 2011 after losing the fight, battling pancreatic cancer. It would have been Steve Jobs’ 62nd birthday on Feb. 24. To celebrate the life of the industrial engineer, Tim Cook shares his sentiments using a quote from Jobs’ Stanford commencement address. He honors Jobs by quoting him about life’s passions. In his Twitter post, Tim Cook…

change, and with that, of this new change, would bring on more structure and to his organization to his own young company. From then onward, Apple Incorporated, Afterwards, then facing many more failures, while Apple Inc. continued to launch its Macintosh computers for all house-hold…

A Sinking Apple When you think of Apple, what are the first things things that come to everybody 's mind? Effortlessly, Apple enthusiasts would say; innovation, creativity, cutting edge technology, and Steve Jobs. When Steve returned to his rightful place in 1997 as interim CEO and in 2000 as CEO, he had to turn his beloved company back to its’ fundamental roots. He believed the success of the company depended on bringing the design of the products and the technology of the products to work in…