i. ASUS
The strengths of ASUS include brand image and recognition and strong market share. As most of the people know that, ASUS is the number one brand in Malaysia. Besides that, ASUS had been acknowledged as one of Taiwan’s top performing international brands. In 2014, Asus received a high record of 4326 local and global awards. In addition, in the same year, fortune magazine published an article, which ASUS featured in the world’s most admired companies. By helping the company to deliver sustainable business growth, ASUS’s strong brand image provides the credibility to the company. Next, among the top five players in PC market, ASUS holds about 7.6 percent market share. In addition to that, in the motherboard segment, ASUS also holds a
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Even though ASUS has brilliant manufacturing potential, compared to other brands such as Lenovo and Apple, their distribution is not up to mark. Moreover, ASUS’s revenue is about 30 percent of Lenovo’s revenue and one-twelfth of Apple’s revenue, which is about $16,000 million. ASUS’ lack of scale may affect its ability to compete with its competitors. Besides that, ASUS has poor marketing skills while Lenovo did took part in branding itself through distinguishing its products as well as through marketing communications. Furthermore, Apple is a legend in marketing. However, in ASUS, such differentiation efforts found to be absent (Bhasin …show more content…
Acer
The strengths of Acer include the cost advantage and the operational efficiency. Cost advantage is one of the strengths of Acer because Acer has a lower cost compared to other brands such as Sony, Dell and Apple. Having a lower cost can help in increasing the sales of the companies. Therefore, it is an advantage for the company. Next, operational efficiency is also one of Acer’s strengths. The reason that Acer is able to sell their products in a lower price is because of its operational efficiency. An example of an end-to-end operational efficiency is that Acer’s supply chain is well known and benchmarked.
The weaknesses of Acer includes presence in the business-to-business (B2B) market and lower perceived quality. In business-to-business (B2B) market, compared to other competitors such as Dell, Sony and Lenovo, Acer has a relatively low presence. Next, lower perceived quality is one of the weaknesses because whenever the product cost is low, the quality of the product may not be as better as the other brand, which cost more. Therefore, due to the prices, the quality of the product may not be high (Bhasin 2017).
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It also identifies the internal and external areas of the business that need improvement and that can prove to be successful. Table 3.1 Strengths: • Apple has an awesome and unique interface where they are ‘head and shoulders’ above the others, giving the Apple Watch a high edge over the new product
The adoption of new technologies and trends is being facilitated in the industry for the competition and the customer’s overall experience. Many suppliers that are having similar strategies face a strong competition. The barriers for exiting the markets are high. Products and services of are undifferentiated leading the customer to focus on the prices offered. Low market growth, so it can be increased only by taking another firm’s market share.
More specifically, as strengths of a company it may consider the marketing plan, the management and the evolution of technology. The Internet Marketing plays one of the most important roles because using the Internet to market and share music is a way to reach a deal with recording label and earn millions for that. Free online promotion brings money in companies and help musicians and artist to start their career and become popular. Record labels dominate in the music industry and provide the opportunity in artists to make contracts for a lot of
How Sustainable is Apple’s Competitive position Introduction Apple started out simply as a computer company producing Macintosh computers and software, but has since evolved over the years to manufacture other products. It introduced iPods in 2001 for music players, in 2007, it started producing iPhones. Its products are consumer oriented and this has contributed to the success of the company. Apple also views innovation as basis of survival and business development (Yoffie, 2012).
It´s important to remember that disruption is positive for the mass-market and are innovations that make products and services more accessible and affordable, thereby making them available to a much larger population. When we look at the full extent of Xiaomi´s business model, we can clearly see how different and how disruptive it is. How does Xiaomi keep their prices at least 60% lower than their competitors? While Apple need to come up with a new model to maintain their high profits, Xiaomi have found a clever way to reach these profits without overserve the market with smartphones. For Xiaomi to sell high-end smartphones at such cost, Xiaomi keeps their models
To do this it needs to have a competitive advantage over its its rivals. A competitive advantage is something a company does better than its rivals that gives it an advantage over its rival. Porter (1988) states that a firm performs many activities that can contribute to a firms relative cost position and create a basis for differentiation which can create a cost advantage that gives a firm a competitive advantage over its competitors. A company’s competitive advantage and competitive strategy are both interrelated. Competitive strategy is defined by Porter (1980) as a broad formula for how a business is going to compete, what its goals should be, and what policies will be needed to carry out those goals.
Normally, consumers have unique needs that are not similar all the times. Therefore, the company must develop products that can address the unique concerns of the consumers. Evidently, Apple Inc. has been successful in the creating variety of products. However, pricing of the Apple Inc. products tend to limit the ability of buyers to purchase the products. While the company might justify the price of the products, setting the prices too high limits the ability of the willing buyer to purchase the
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Zara can be identified as one of the largest international fast-fashion organizations which is owned by the fashion group Inditex. Their first store was opened in 1975 and from that point of time, they have had an unstoppable growth throughout the years as up to now. After 42 years of operations, today Zara has been able to expand themselves with 2169 stored over 82 countries all over the world. Rather than they were a high fashion brand in the country, Zara has focused themselves as a fast fashion brand where they will change their fashions at a great pace where no one can reach them. Also, the most attractive thing is that all those latest fashion designs are introduced to the public at an affordable price.
ACHIEVING GLOBAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF APPLE INC. Apple Inc. is an American conglomerate company located in one immeasurable loop, Cupertino, California in the middle of the Silicon Valley. (OPPapers, 2012). Apple is motivated on their designing, developing, innovating new products like the personal computers, other related software products, and the electronic products such as MP3 players and iPods. Apple Inc.’s main products are iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPads and its latest advanced product is iWatch, which is on the edge of creating another revolution after iPhone. Apple Inc. has transformed its image from an inventive computer manufacturer to a fully-fledged consumer 's electronic company.
Apple is always on top compared to all other leading brands. Apple has many competitors. It alone gives head to head competition to brands like Google, Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, Samsung. According to data from Counterpoint’s
The competitive advantage received by a firm will likely
Apple Company. Is an American multinational firm that layout and manufactures shopper electronics and PC software products. Apple was founded on the first of April, 1976, at the hands of "Steve Jobs" and "Steve Wozniak" and "Ronald Wayne" for the sale of personal computers called "Apple. The company manages more than two hundred and fifty shop of retail stores in nine countries, and shop on the Internet sold by hardware and software products. The reason why I choose this organization is because it 's very successful and famous device everywhere in world.
English 102 Essay 2 Jalal Bou Kanaan Outline “The Apple and Samsung showdown” I. Introduction: General Background information + Thesis: “what makes those companies not alike are the phones they release through the years, but are they that different?” II. “example of two leading rival companies in the field of smart phones” A. Information about the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 B. Information about the Apple iPhone 6 Plus III.
According to Bullen and Rockart (1981), critical success factor is the significant skills, areas, or actions of a company that contributes to the competitive performance that can make it become successful. The main key success factor of Apple is its core competency, technology. The company that owns the advanced technology may get high revenue and a larger market share when imply this technology in its product or service (Roth & Miller, 1992). Apple has used this core competency to develop many highly functional and usable digital device and software which can develop the loyalty of customers to its brand (Laugesen & Yuan, 2010). For example, many electronics products in the market are use Google’s Android system, while Apple uses its own system, iOS in all of its digital devices (Johnson, et al.,
Mr Price has a wide range of competitors such as H&M, Woolworths and Pick ‘n Pay. A competitive advantage describes how the business has benefits or strengths over its competitors in the market. By having this, the competitors don’t seem as a threat to the company. It’s used