Google's business model, organizational structure, and strategic opportunities
This is a full-scale paper on Google's strategy. It's all here – financial analysis, SWOT, five forces, value propositions, industry analysis, BCG Matrix, recommendation, everything. The leadership of the company, its culture and its performance measures are all discussed. The recommendations naturally take into account the full analysis that was done.
Palm's financial and operational outputs in the Nadler-Tushman congruence model
In the Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model, outputs comprise everything that derives from the organization's activities. Thus, there are many categories of outputs. These include financial outputs (revenue, costs, profit),…
Customer perceptions of HTC product defects and quality issues
High Tech Computer Corporation, known almost universally by the acronym HTC, is a Taiwan based designer and manufacturer of smartphone devices. The company generally creates a base design, gives it a "codename", such as Hermes, and then offers the devices to be sold rebranded by other companies, such as i-mate, or networks, such as T-Mobile or Orange. In 2006 HTC started offering devices in some markets under their own HTC brand (Benou, 2007). The company has long used its own Dopod house brand to sell devices directly in Asia. HTC anticipates continued growth in the smartphone sector (Colombo, 2010). The convenience and excitement delivered by the plethora of mobile digital applications available such as location based services, multimedia entertainment, social networking services, and e-books continue to push smartphones to the fore of mobile phone purchase choices and increase penetration of smartphones in the mobile phone market (Butler, 2009). One of the games folks like to play when a new phone comes out is "spot the defect." And in the case of the HTC One X, a small but vocal number of HOX owners have run into a particularly annoying problem with Wifi (Fruin, 2009). We've known that HTC was still tweaking things on the software side, but this one seemed to involve some internal antennae connections. Squeeze a part of the phone, and your Wifi connection improves.