Introduction
1.1 COMPANY BACKGROUND
Ericsson was founded in 1876. It has its headquarters at Stockholm, Sweden. Ericsson is one of the giants coming up with vision of being prime provider in the enormous world of communication. Their networks sustain around Forty percent of mobile traffic globally. The networks covered by the sustain subscribers in abundance of 1 billion. They have the strongest position in the global scenario as more than 35000 patents have been granted buy them.
More than 100 licenses have been given to patents. Ericsson aims at growing the network globally to form a cohesive world. Their company lays focus on all – 2G, 3G and 4Gas well. Global standards lead to greater connectivity in the ICT and telecom industries. Standardizing technology and ensuring interoperability between networks, devices and operators is their main focus area. Ericsson supports and follows terms that are non-discriminatory for its patent licensing programs, fair, reasonable and that make all the essential standard patents available worldwide.
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Exxon Mobil Corporation- Exxon Mobile (NYSE: XOM) didn’t have a good start to the year, but the fourth-quarter results helped the company’s share to rise nearly 7% despite a disappointing financial performance. Its shares are now up approximately 3% year-to-date. The company for the quarter reported earnings of $0.67 per share, a slump of 57% as compared to earnings of $1.56 per share in the fourth-quarter of 2014. This decline in earnings is driven by weakness in the commodity market that has impacted its upstream business significantly.
As Tektronix decided to implement the new Oracle ERP system, the company chose to introduce it in phases, based around the specific functionality or a particular geographic region. Implementing in phases, or in waves as Tektronix called it, allowed the company to experience regular feedback on specific areas of implementation, allowing time to adjust processes and scheduling as needed. The phased approach enabled the company to achieve frequent victories, which kept team and employee morale high throughout the process and provided encouragement to the Board despite the high cost and long timeline of the overall implementation.
Tesla Motors Inc. is an American public company which is known worldwide because of its experience in designing, manufacturing and also the selling of electric cars and electric components for vehicles. The motor was started back in the year 2003 in San Carlos, California in the United States (Teslamotors.com, 2014). The company had its headquarters in Palo Alto and at the time of its inception, Elon Musk was its chief executive officer (CEO) (Hunger, 2010).
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Assess how Ericsson benefitted from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in terms of cost reduction, automated software updates, remote access, and on-demand availability.
In today’s current economic state, the likelihood of a company entering into a global market is inevitable. Multinational corporations (MNCs) such as Vodafone are required to standardise their Research & Development activities throughout the world in order to penetrate the market. This is achieved by obtaining new technological opportunities, such as the most up-to-date phones, thus maintaining a competitive driver in the market.
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By the end of 2003, Nokia was the clear market leader in the mobile phone industry in terms of sales and profitability. It was ahead of giant companies like Motorola, Ericsson, Siemens, Samsung, and other worthy competitors. Since the early 1990s, Nokia's Strategic Intent was to build distinctive competency in product innovation, rapid response, and global brand management. Its strategic intent required rapid growth in the core businesses of mobile phones and telecommunications networks. This goal was achieved by Nokia's development of new products and expansion into new markets. In order to become the global leader as it is today, the company had overcome numerous challenges and obstacles over the last decade.
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Today, Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. The company generates sales of more than $27 billion in a total of 130 countries and employs more than 60,000 people. Its simple mission: to "connect people."
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