https://blogs.ubc.ca/yugeliu/2011/10/04/occupy-wall-street/
The recent occupy wall-street movement has definitely stirred up a lot of attention. A lot of organizational behavior can be observed in both parties: the participants and the corporations. Striving for a change in the way our society runs, protestors have been proven to be very peaceful and organized as they promised to be. Ideas were being channeled through systematically with the use of free public speeches, most protests occurred in a peaceful manner. The authorities on the other hand found it hard to respond to such unusual manners of protesting; without the presence of aggressive actions from the participants, law enforcing forces were not able to silence the movement as they would have if it turned out to be a riot. Instead, formal communication channels have been formed between the two parties and everyone became friends.
The amazon tablet sounds like a great deal, and its cases like this that really show how much of a powerful corporation apple has become. Personally, I have not heard of the amazon tablet; either amazon needs to do a better job at advertising or apple products are just so popular that they simply overshadow most products from its competitors. Amazon’s penetration pricing for its tablet is an obvious attempt to gain some market share from a apple dominated market. However, apple has gained an almost monopoly status which allow them to advertise very aggressively with the amount of revenue they acquired from all the sales they have made from their recent line of famous products including iphone and ipods, allowing very little room for competitors to fit their way in the market.
Sony, founded in 1946 is a world famous leading manufacturer of electronics products, the company has managed to make its way up to the status of a multinational corporate giant in the past decades. While Sony had its glorious days, it has lost its power and popularity that it once had in the recent years. Ever since then, directors of the firm have been trying to push the company back to its former glory by differentiating into different markets such as music and motion pictures. Which is a common method of expansion by venturing into new markets with new products. Although Sony has successfully branched out its product and service range in new markets, the corporation has started to lose its former brand reputation of being the company that makes top notch tech-savvy products. Instead, sony has now become a company that does a lot of things, but lacks recognition to support the backbone of its operations. Was differentiation a bad idea in the first place? Did the firm grow into something too big for itself to handle? Directors of the firm has been trying hard to push their products such as new playstation consoles and motion pictures to reinforce their former image of a company that focuses on electronics products. Their efforts will hopefully be reflected on the company’s image.
Napster is a music streaming internet service that allows users to steam and download music through its dedicated computer program with a monthly subscription fee. For $9.95 a month, users can pick and listen to up to 2.5 million songs as they wish. While it sounds like an attractive deal, Napster has been experiencing great decrease in canadian sales and thus pulling out from the market. While facing strong competition with other mp3 downloading service providers such as itunes, Napster is ultimately undermined by its program’s lack of compatibility with macintosh operating systems which are becoming extensively popular. A huge potential group of customers is lost there with the service limitation to pc users only. While the firm may not be in its strongest phase, pulling out from canada may save the firm from a great loss of revenue. When facing a well established competitor, moving away from the market might be the only option for Napster .
When it comes to efficiency versus safety, safety is often compromised to satisfy a demand of high efficiency inorder for a company to operate at a faster rate. This is especially applicable in the cases of delivery companies such as FedEx and UPS where speed is such a significant factor in their operations. Without proper rules for these companies to operate on, safety issues occur as the companies push their limits on operating at the highest speed possible in order to gain customer satisfaction. However, accidents are bound to occur when safety issues are overlooked: 50 people killed in a plane accident due to the pilot’s lack of rest as he flew again and again delivering parcels. Governments have to setup protocols for these delivery companies to tame their need for speed and efficiency in their operations, especially when human lives are endangered.
As new car brands emerge into the competitive market of automobile, even leading companies like Mercedes are scratching their heads to come up with new products in a long existing market. Sales for the company has dropped recently, “It’s impossible to tell our customers, employees, and investors that we accept being No. 3,” says Zetsche, the CEO of Mercedes. Along with their confidence, Mercedes came up with a new product that aims to push the company’s sales back to the top of the chart. By focusing on developing it’s B-class series, an improved new model was born in hope to extend the product life cycle of the specific class. As a bottom line, business strategies like this are often used to regain shares and increase sales of a company inorder to keep up with the competitive market.