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Week 8 Assignment 3_competitive strategy

Week 8 Assignment 3_Competitive Strategy

Q In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for Assignments 1 and 2. Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University's online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion. Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion. Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation's most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice. Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources. ?

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Apple Inc. operates its business functions in the technology industry. This organization provides unique products, such as iPhone, iPad, and many other important technical products to the consumers (Heracleous 2013). In this paper, there will be a detailed discussion of the business level strategies of the organization, which have helped a lot to reach to the successful position of the company. Even the corporate level strategies will be elaborated in this assignment for determining the long-term success of Apple Inc. the competitive environment will help to know the most important competitor of Apple Inc. in the technology industry.