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million. We analyzed the industry and examined external factors that could impact HTC’s bottom line. This analysis gave us crucial insight into the smartphone market. We also analyzed the competitive environment that includes Apple‚ Motorola‚ and RIM (Blackberry). HTC‚ which has a positive reputation on the merits of its technology‚ needs to boldly differentiate itself in the marketplace. Through market analysis‚ we discovered that HTC has a strong market size‚ market potential‚ and distinct target markets
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No. 1. Executive Summery 04 2. Introduction 06 3. Objectives 07 4. Concepts 08 5. Company Profile 12 6. Methodology 16 7. Tabulation 18 8. Major findings 37 9. Tabulation of Economic Status 39 10. Other findings 47 11. Recommendations 48 12. Limitations 50 13. Scope for future improvement 51 14. Questionnaire
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n 2009)2 1 PC Magazine: “RIM‚ Ap pple Top U.S. S Smartphone Sales.” ww.pcmag.com m/article2/0‚2 2817‚2329913 3‚00.asp http://ww Market Niches and Differentiation o Consider the US market‚ with OS shares shown above. Apple iPhone and Google Android are the only ones showing growth. Failed release of Blackberry Storm coupled
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Identification of drivers 9 2.3 5 Porter’s forces 10 2.3.1 Rivalry among competing firms 10 2.3.2 Bargaining power of suppliers 10 2.3.3 Bargaining power of customers 10 2.3.4 Threat of new entrants 10 2.3.5 Threat of Substitutes 10 2.4 Strategic group mapping 12 2.5 Competitive Profile Matrix 14 2.5 7s model 15 2.5.1 7s Model Components: 15 2.5.2 Strategy: 16 2.5.3 Structure: 17 2.5.4 Systems: 18 2.5.5 Values of the Company: 18 2.5.6 Style: 20 2.5.7 Staff: 20 2.5.8 Skills: 21 2.6 Core competences
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three examples of print advertisements that use some of the stimulus factors discussed in the chapter to gain attention. For each example‚ evaluate the effectiveness of the stimulus factors used. 3. Key Concepts Selective perception Perceptual mapping • Define selective perception. Thinking back‚ relate one or two elements of this concept to your own attention patterns in viewing print advertisements and TV commercials. • Select a company that produces several versions of the same product
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competitors for each industry are the direct substitutes‚ which include: PC Consumer Electronic ditial music distributors Smartphone Acer AVG CD Bbaby Blackberry Asus Blackberry Catapult Google Compaq Dell Ditto HTC Dell HTC DMD LG eMachines IBM Emubands Motorola Gateway Intel IODA NEC HP Microsoft Musicadium Nokia Lenovo Nokia RouteNote RIM Samsung Samsung The Gene Pool Samsung Sony Sony Tuenecore Sharp Toshiba Sony Ericsson TuneCore Inc Sony Ericsson Second‚ the two functional solutions
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from http://www.quotegarden.com/simplicity.html Gibson‚ S Bellis‚ M. (n.d.). History of pagers and beepers. Retrieved February 25‚ 2009‚ from http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/pager.htm Motorola Brown‚ B. (2001‚ April 24). Pagers: Blackberry RIM 957. Retrieved from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0‚2817‚255915‚00.asp Palenchar‚ J Street Directory. (n.d). Two way pagers vs. cell phones. Retrieved February 25‚ 2009‚ from http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/148936/cell_phones/two_way_pagers_vs_cell_phones
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Chapter 4 TUTORIAL FOR POSITIONING ANALYSIS Concept There are three broad concepts associated with this tutorial: Differentiation‚ Positioning‚ and Mapping. Differentiation is the creation of tangible or intangible differences on one or two key dimensions between a focal product and its main competitors. Positioning refers to the set of strategies organizations develop and implement to ensure that these differences occupy a distinct and important position in the minds of customers. Thus‚ Kentucky
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applicable to these criteria. In additions‚ the authors of this paper used monthly return to measure and predict the overreaction effect‚ yet‚ a stock price can corrects its self to the normal price before the end of the month. For example‚ when blackberry announced its new phone on Feb 4‚ 2013‚ the stock realized a capital gain of 15% in that day. However‚ the ten-days average earnings for the prior and post announcement day is relatively the same‚ (-1%‚ 0% respectively). When looking at the data
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