Essays on Computer Industry

Each student will submit a 2500 words (including exhibits) Business Plan for their Simulation Company.  Use Times Roman 11 font, 1 inch margins, double spaced.  The business plan should provide the Board a report on your strategic decisions, with an account of your performance state, and your plan for the future.  Specifics of your decisions over various quarters, assessment of those decisions, and how you stand vis-à-vis competition should be included.  Use the following headings and subheadings to organize your Business Plan:

            2) Strategy of the Firm – SWOT, STEEP and Competitor Analysis             3) Analysis of current situation and ...

1.1 Attractiveness of the computer industry in the early years 1.1.1 Initiation of various companies in the computer industry 1.1.3 Attractiveness of the computer sector Although it appeared to be a booming business, some of the companies appeared to be more successful than others. Take, for example, IBM after launching into the market it was able to attract about 42% of the total market. In terms of production of mainframe computers, it was able to acquire a total of 61% of the total market due to its sales force and organization, and this is how Microsoft came into play, ...

A Blue Ocean Strategy was introduced by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne in 2005 and means that the companies should create the new market places that “make the competition irrelevant” (Kim & Mauborgne, 2005, p.4). In more detail, the companies usually compete within the boundaries of the market for the larger share of the existing demand. When there are too many competitors, it is much more difficult for a company to achieve its business objectives. Therefore the companies should take another approach that would be targeted at creating the demand and widening the existing markets by creating “the blue ...

Apple Inc. was founded in 1976 and for many years its development depended on the business strategy that effectively addressed the so-called Porter’s Five Forces. However not always the company was able to take the correct steps in order to stay at the top of the competition. There were several troublesome periods and changes of the CEOs and other top managers in order to respond to the crisis or bad financial performance. Nevertheless, Apple was able to create several competitive advantages that later helped the company to become one of the most respected companies in the computer industry. ...

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Introduction 3

Question 1 – Market Structure Definitions 4 Question 2 – Unique Resources of Quasar Computers 5 Question 3 – Oligopoly and Competition 6 Question 4 –Porter’s Generic competitive strategies for different types of the market 6 Question 5 – Porter Five Forces Ranking and Attractiveness of Perfect Competition for Computer Industry 8 Conclusion 9

References 10

Introduction Throughout the history of the humankind, different markets have been tested by the economies (Frank, 2008). Despite the fact that advantages of ones and deficiencies of others types of market have been respectively eulogized or vigorously criticized by the different scholars, the practice ultimately revealed that ...