Microsoft Organizational Structure Analysis

Up until a number of years ago, Arthur Andersen was considered as one of the then Big 5 auditing companies around the world. The company knew its beginning in 1913 through Arthur E. Andersen who formed a partnership with Clarence M. Delaney in order to set up Andersen, Delaney & Co. Unfortunately, however, the partners split 5 years later and the company’s name became exclusively Arthur Andersen. Mr. Andersen died in 1947; however, his successor Leonard Spacek led the company to successful periods making it more global. In fact, the first international office was opened in the 1950s with revenues of around $8 million and within a period of 20 years, revenues exploded up to around $130 million, with more than 1,000 partners at the firm.

“In 2014, Verizon’s Powerful Answers Award generated more than 1,870 submissions from around the globe” (2016). These ideas and innovations help maintain Verizon’s competitiveness. Verizon and Porter’s Five Forces Model A Five Forces analysis of Verizon reveals its strongest horizontal threats are from industry competition and substitutes, while the strongest vertical threat comes from the bargaining power of buyers. The company faces less significant threats from new entrants to the market and the bargaining power of suppliers.

The development of windows could be the sole reason why microsoft changed the future of technology. In 1987 “Windows” was created, an operating program featuring simplified commands and eye catching graphics. With the new look of windows it made many sales. By early 1993, Windows was selling at the rate of one million copies a month. ("Microsoft").

Investment plays a major role in the way that Procter and Gamble competes analytically. According to an article published in the Harvard Business Review, Every year the company invests a minimum of $400 million on just one aspect of external processes: consumer research. Through this research data for potential innovations is obtained from over 5 million consumers through around 20,000 studies, surveys or interviews. Investing in research will not only give Procter and Gamble a better understanding of their customers’ purchase habits, but it will also allow the company to improve its customer relationship management platform. Increasing the lifespan of each customer, to ideally be lifelong, is the goal of Procter and Gamble.

• Intacct has 16 years of experience in the industry. • Intacct is one of the fastest growing mid-market cloud financial software vendor.(Used by 8500 organizations from startups to public companies and has 60% growth procurement) and hundreds of leading CPA firms are offering Intacct to their clients. • Intacct Delivers Record Fiscal Second

Apple, Inc., an American multinational technology company, which founded on April 1, 1976 in California, United States. The company has earned $53 million of income in 2015, which increase $14 million of income compared with 2014 (Apple Inc., 2015). The co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company, Steve Jobs is passed away for the pancreatic cancer (Park, 2011). His leadership and entrepreneurship have successfully developed the company from a small personal computer company to a multinational corporation that selling various types of electronic products and software such as, iPad, iPhone, iOS, and others (Apple Inc., 2016). 1.0 Critical Success Factor

From 2010 until today, assets under management have increased from $253 billion to more than $413 billion. MFS was titled as Equity Manager of the Year by Global Pensions magazine in 2010. It received the Lipper Fund Award in 2011 for Best Overall Large Company. MFS was recognized as the Best Specialist Equity Fund House by Morningstar UK in 2013, and in 2014 Barron 's named MFS among the "Best Mutual Fund Families", based on its investment result and management

Transformation Process Model within Tesco Tesco concept was founded in 1919 and its first retail store was inaugurated in Edgware, London, UK in 1929. Now, Tesco considered as world's third-largest retailer (after Wal-mart and Carrefour) with 2012 figures as follows: revenues £72.0 billion, of which £3.8 billion was trading profit. (Copeland). Revenues distribution is 66% UK, 15% Europe, 17% Asia & USA, and 2% Tesco Bank.

LinkedIn will offer an opportunity to Microsoft for employee recruitments, important data and valuable insights into its customers. A powerful advertising network including Lynda and Slideshare are also on the offer. 2. LinkedIn Network’s Power: LinkedIn is a very valuable social network, an asset without a challenging peer. LinkedIn has a huge network

According to Business Week, in August 2002, the company ran 1,200 international outlets, from Bejing to Bristol, 400 of 1,200 new stores would be built overseas and expected to double the number of its stores worldwide to 10,000 in three years. The plan had been done from the early expansion in 1995. At this time, the firm built a subsidiary which is assumed for Starbucks business development outside North America and operated by Peter Maslen with about 180 multi-nation and multi-lingual managers located in Seattle and three regional offices around the world. Actually, the first international expansion in Tokyo, Japan (1996) then other succeed in different countries such as the Philippines, the U.K, Malaysia formed Starbucks’ goal. Schultz want to lead the company to a ubiquitous image as a powerful brand in the world.

Nicholas Carr made quite a few of points in his book The Shallows. Car made a point in his book, the internet is making us more smarter. (Carr; 40) “ One click on a link led to a dozen or a hundred more” “ online articles are seen faster than print editions” “ Books are great, but the net is faster and won’t waste paper” Our IQ since the internet became the most used source, got higher. The internet has affected us as well. When we face a question that we have no clue about we don 't go to our