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Strategy & Technological Change - Whatever Happened to BlackBerry?
The revenues achieved in 2011 by RIM, the owner of BlackBerry, fell by 25% compared with 2010. It looks like customers have fallen out of love with BlackBerry. Apple, HTC, Samsung and other operator have grabbed a large share of BlackBerry’s customer base, so it must be that BlackBerry has seen its competitiveness deteriorate.
This excellent video from the FT examines some key strategic issues facing Rim and its BlackBerry brand. Could the business be a takeover target now that the firm is trying to achieve a turnaround? But, if so, who would want to buy it? Can new product development save BlackBerry before it loses further market share in key markets like the US? A fantastic lesson resource for A2 students…
News video (December 2012): Research in Motion expected to report more heavy losses
Leadership & Culture: The Depends On Factors that will Determine Apple’s Future? [14 May 2013]
Strategy: Organic Growth Powers Whitbread’s Success [29 Apr 2013]
What does Apple plan to spend $100bn on? [24 Apr 2013]
Growth strategy - Tesco’s “Related-diversification” into Family Restaurants [15 Mar 2013]
BUSS4 - the tutor2u 10 for 2013 [14 Mar 2013]
Would you pay $10,000 for a smartphone? [4 Mar 2013]
Mobile Strategy - the Battle for 3rd Place in Operating Systems [25 Feb 2013]
Design Becomes Part of the Culture at Google [13 Feb 2013]
Blackberry’s Last Hope - What it costs to make the Z10 [12 Feb 2013]
Samsung - the World’s Biggest Diversified Company? [9 Feb 2013]
A Big Takeover in Media Market: Virgin Media Sold to Liberty Global for £15bn [7 Feb 2013]
Is “Apple’s Culture of Secrecy” A Competitive Advantage? [1 Feb 2013]
BUSS2 revision and exam technique - Competitiveness [19 Jan 2013]
Sony’s New Super Smartphone - A Premium Product, But Can It Compete with Apple & Samsung? [10 Jan 2013]
Is the iPad inspired iPotty a viable business idea? [10 Jan 2013]
BUSS1 - Market Size, Share and Growth Calculations [8 Jan 2013]
Technological Change - MP3 Players in Rapid Decline [27 Dec 2012]
HMV’s strategy of diversification comes to an end [4 Dec 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - Irn-Bru Meets Fruit Shoot [14 Nov 2012]
Innovation: Big Spending on R&D Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Strong Innovation [11 Nov 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers: Nike Kicks Umbro into Row Z [25 Oct 2012]
Ansoff is everywhere [11 Oct 2012]
Will Apple really make £426 profit on each iPhone5? [18 Sep 2012]
Customer reactions to the new iPhone 5 - did anything change? [14 Sep 2012]
Apple’s Product Portfolio - the iPhone is now as big as Microsoft! [10 Sep 2012]
Tablet Wars - Kindle v IPad - Amazon v Apple [9 Sep 2012]
Technological Change: A Crucial Period in the Smartphone Market [2 Sep 2012]
USP humour [28 Aug 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - the last Car Rental deal? [28 Aug 2012]
Leadership at Apple - Tim Cook’s First Year [27 Aug 2012]
Apple – the biggest company ever? [21 Aug 2012]
Kraft & Cadbury ” Everything we hoped it would be…and More” [20 Aug 2012]
Technology, Culture & Innovation: What’s Gone Wrong with Microsoft? [19 Aug 2012]
Growth and Complexity Go Together - So Keep it Simple! [16 Aug 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - Google Takes the Knife to Motorola Mobility [13 Aug 2012]
Economic Influences in action - austerity hits IWB maufacturer Promethean [27 Jul 2012]
Olympics security: an unprofitable contract [14 Jul 2012]
Product placement: Sony blocks out Apple via Spiderman [14 Jul 2012]
Change at the Royal Mail - Privatisation and “Skinny” Profit Margins [3 Jul 2012]
Failure, Greed and Corruption in Banking - Good News for the Co-op? [3 Jul 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - How to Destroy 99% of a Takeover’s Value [3 Jul 2012]
ResearchBuster: Acquisitions [17 Jun 2012]
Starbucks chooses the takeover option to diversify into baking [17 Jun 2012]
Adding Value - How Much Profit is Made by the iPhone? [16 Jun 2012]
Sony - Can Hirai Turn the Business Around? [16 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Impact On and Reaction Of Stakeholders to Takeovers and Mergers [15 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Motives for Takeovers and Mergers [15 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Problems of Takeovers and Mergers including Integration [15 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Factors Influencing the Success of Takeovers and Mergers [15 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Impact of Takeovers and Mergers on Business Performance [15 Jun 2012]
More Retrenchment at Nokia (June 2012) [14 Jun 2012]
Nokia and Strategic Change - the Essential A2 Business Case [14 Jun 2012]
Takeovers and mergers: Wholesale Changes ahead for Booker & Makro [13 Jun 2012]
Takeovers and mergers: JD Sports and the Blacks Leisure Headache [13 Jun 2012]
BMW and a business location activity [13 Jun 2012]
Is shareholder value the only way to evaluate the success or failure of a takeover or merger? [13 Jun 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - the Language of M&A [13 Jun 2012]
Takeovers and mergers: Every merger deal that has ever occurred (explained in fewer than 1000 words) [7 Jun 2012]
BUSS4 Example Essay - Integration Planning for Takeovers and Mergers [26 May 2012]
BUSS4 - a clash of culture and a failed takeover [25 May 2012]
Did Ben & Jerry’s change Unilever? [24 May 2012]
A neat interactive tool for students to analyse the smartphone market [22 May 2012]
6 Essential M&A Cases: Tata Group buys Jaguar Land Rover [21 May 2012]
Measuring the competitiveness of a business [18 May 2012]
What do we mean by “competitiveness”? [18 May 2012]
Revision Presentation - Marketing and Competitiveness [17 May 2012]
Sandwiches market - a slice of the action [14 May 2012]
AQA BUSS4 - ‘with reference to *** plc and your own research ....’ [13 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - A Casino Gamble? [12 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - Vue on the Growth Trail! [12 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - one that went badly wrong (BMW and Rover) [10 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - the failed takeover behind Clinton Cards’ Collapse [9 May 2012]
Marketing analysis: the UK supermarket battleground [3 May 2012]
A detailed look inside Apple’s Foxconn factory [24 Apr 2012]
Vodafone takes over Cable and Wireless Worldwide [23 Apr 2012]
6 Essential M&A Cases: BA & Iberia Merge to Form IAG [23 Apr 2012]
BUSS4: 6 Essential M&A Cases [23 Apr 2012]
Competitiveness and organisational structure - a great example of delayering [20 Apr 2012]
Easy ride for Audi? [19 Apr 2012]
Strategy - How Nokia was overtaken by Apple and Samsung [17 Apr 2012]
Apple under fire for e-book deals [17 Apr 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - Cost Synergies in Action at BMI [17 Apr 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers: Facebook & Instagram in News Clips [14 Apr 2012]
Costs, Cashflow and Closure - the Last French Beret Maker [14 Apr 2012]
Sony - Hirai’s Turnaround Strategy - in Video Clips [13 Apr 2012]
Organisational culture, strategy and performance in fewer than 1000 words [9 Apr 2012]
Move over Apple, Samsung, Sony & Nokia. Here Comes China’s Huawei [7 Apr 2012]
BUSS4 M&A - the Benefits of Foreign Takeovers of UK Firms [7 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Exchange Rates and Business [6 Apr 2012]
IAG bid for BMI receives approval [3 Apr 2012]
The Main Motives Behind Takeovers and Mergers [26 Mar 2012]
“Strategy is Choice” - Takeovers are Just One Option [25 Mar 2012]
Starbucks acquisition provides the base for entry into the juice bar market [25 Mar 2012]
When we went on tour - Football and Competitiveness [23 Mar 2012]
Retrenchment: Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain? [19 Mar 2012]
Do Apple Customers Turn a Blind-eye to CSR in their Pursuit of Innovation? [18 Mar 2012]
Game Over? [13 Mar 2012]
Two Lesson Videos on Nokia - Will their Strategy Work? [13 Mar 2012]
Lesson Video on Patent Protection - the Battle for Smartphone Advantage [12 Mar 2012]
Tata & Jaguar Land Rover - Culture and Strategy [11 Mar 2012]
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