BlackBerry, which gained significant market share in the early 2000s in the business, government, and consumer markets, lost market share because "competitors offered phones with better designs and more features".
<u>Option:</u> B
<u>Explanation:</u>
The causes BlackBerry struggled are:
- They were unable to innovate quickly enough. Apple and all the Android phone manufacturers released their phones with new operating system and physical shapes.
- That was a major disruption in the market for cell phones and BlackBerry did not follow.
The company after Chen took over BlackBerry in late 2013 to concentrate more on apps. In 2016, the team stopped manufacturing its own branded phones and is now depending on suppliers to do so. The organization now provides a lot of its software and services revenues, as well as licensing, to big corporations.
<span>Answer:
Gross Pay: $1200
Less Health Ins: (42.50)
Taxable Pay: 1157.50
SS Tax: 71.77 (1157.50 *.062)
Medicare Tax: 16.78 (1157.50 *.0145)
FIT: 91.79
Net Pay: 977.17
FIT calcualted as follows: Taxable less allowances (1157.50 less (71.15*4) = 872.9
(872.9 * .15)-39.15 = 91.79</span>
Answer:
1) This question is about whether diversification is good or bad for a large corporation. Whether diversification can be considered good or bad depends on the corporation itself, there is no one answer fits all. In this case, Sony is divided into 12 segments or divisions and each of them generates their own cash flows and offers their own products or services.
High tech companies generally tend to diversify a lot because they need to continuously produce innovative products or improve their existing ones. E.g. Google got so large and diversified that it turned into Alphabet which owns more than 200 companies (most of them through acquisitions). Sony's largest revenue sources are gaming services, financial services and home entertainment.
When we think about Sony we probably think about consumer electronics, the Playstation or even movies, but in order to be profitable, Sony had to expand and diversify. Sony's revenues are shifting from consumer electronics to services (including financial, gaming, network, music and movies), so that means that their diversification model actually worked.
2) Sony's goal with Future Lab is to create customer value and new lifestyles, whether they are able to do so depends on how well they work it out. Future Labs is based on San Francisco, and it should serve as a place where innovative prototypes should be tested by real users. The goal is that Sony can learn from actual real life user experiences in order to improve their products and services. The real life customers and users that want to participate in Sony's program must pay a fee for doing so, but they can also experience prototypes before anyone else.
Answer:
B. Meaning
Explanation:
Given that Noreen goals are in line with the manager, team and employer, it means Noreen has meaning in relation to her company. Meaning in relation, shows the degree to which one entity is related to another entity. Here, Noreen goals for herself and a "probable work place " matches and aligns with the goals of every worker in the company including are employer.
Answer:
'Safety Needs' from 'Basic Needs'
Explanation:
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a psychological theory, stating the priority ranking in which individuals seek to fulfil their needs.
- Basic Needs : Physiological needs (food, water, shelter) and Safety needs (security , wealth base)
- Psychological Needs : Love, Belongingness needs (good family, friends bonds) and Self Esteem needs (prestige, self accomplishment)
- Self Fulfilment Needs : Self Realisation needs (enhancing growth potential, creative activities)
Elias works as a fire fighter. Although she prioritises protection from safety equipment ; she still bought a 'disability insurance' with income protection. This act highlights towards Elias fulfilling / prioritising her : Safety Needs (Security of body, health, employment, resources, family welfare, property); broadly from 'Basic Needs'.
