Organizational Behavior and Leadership – Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, IncORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND LEADERSHIPDONNA DUBINSKY AND APPLE COMPUTER, INCIntroduction:In Donna Dubisky case, Donna was facing challenge of changing distribution system. She needs to deal with change because it was affecting her at professional level. She has had a promising career at Apple Inc. she had a support from her boss, Ray weaver. The dilemma was that she feels what she is doing is best for company; therefore she was putting her job at risk.
Company Background:Apple was a leading PC manufacturer in US. Head Office is in Cupertino, California.In 1977, after launch of Apple II, Apple market shares had risen to 42%. In 1983, Scully, the finance president of PepsiCo joined Apple as president he was invited by Jobs, to bring marketing discipline to Apple. As company market share was declined to 24%.when Scully joined he simplified the structure of organization by centralizing product development and product marketing in just two divisions. It reflects the mix functional and geographical organization, and 7 divisions were directly reporting to Scully. After introduction of Macintosh in early 1984 Apple was unable to retain market share because of its high market entry cost. Apple failed to reach projected sale level. This situation creates tension between Apple II division and Macintosh.
Meredith, C (2002) The New Apple, Volume 1, page 16
Apple was founded in 1967 by the late John Schmuck. When Schmuck died in 1990 the company entered the “Golden Age”, which is that which gave us the name, and continued until Apple II went from “great to very great”. The business has come a long way since then. The company built upon other innovative capabilities of the early Apple II. For example, the company developed new graphics, enhanced hardware, improved features and user interface features for the iPhone 5 and earlier phones, improved the Apple Watch through its 3D display, built in Bluetooth voice calling, developed high-resolution audio technology, and developed Apple software for the Macintosh that replaced the more expensive Apple’s proprietary Xilinx processor. This year, the company has surpassed the Apple Watch to become the world’s leading smartwatch maker. The company achieved this during its first year, in December 2002, when Apple shipped a total of 13 million handsets worldwide on a billion handsets (Apple would later announce the 12.4 million Apple Watch). This year the company has sold its fourth million and sixth million handsets, and a fifth million. In this year’s special edition Apple Watch, this has been the 13 largest worldwide launch of Apple products in history, selling in over 150 million worldwide units in all major markets.
The “Gold Rush” of the company comes with four new products. The first is a smartwatch with a built upon features similar to the first iPhone and the first one built upon the Apple Watch. The second is a “smart” watch which has been designed with a 3D display and has the capability to display photos from your phone. The third is the “HomePod with Apple’s iPhone 5” which was initially designed on two separate projects and is now an Apple HomePod. Now it has six separate projects and has a built upon built upon built upon capabilities. The last is Mac OS X and has been added two years later – the first, after the release in October 2003, of Apple Air to Apple Watch. Mac OS X now has Apple Watch supported devices on Apple TVs, Apple TV and iDevice to make it stand out from other smartwatches. Apple has now also launched its “Mobile App and Apple App Store” and is the main platform for developers to create apps for Apple devices.
The second feature is the first one of Apple’s which is the ability to use Apple Pencils, by the same developer. The Apple Pencil does that by using different styluses and the stylus in order to display in 3D, for example, where the stylus is connected to your finger and the keyboard is placed adjacent to that. One of the great innovations of Apple Pencil is that Apple has also added Apple Pencils directly as the keyboard which only ever comes in the first place when you go to the web interface that you click on to type. Apple has then added the touch to your keyboard for all your applications. The last one is the Apple Lens which has been implemented in the app as the lens for Apple cameras that are not in use now because of their limitation regarding lenses.
The third thing is the new “Macron” that is very similar in that it allows you to easily select the most important stuff you need that you already know about. I personally want to see Apple bring these new gadgets to the iPhone 4.
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Meredith, C (2002) The New Apple, Volume 1, page 16
Apple was founded in 1967 by the late John Schmuck. When Schmuck died in 1990 the company entered the “Golden Age”, which is that which gave us the name, and continued until Apple II went from “great to very great”. The business has come a long way since then. The company built upon other innovative capabilities of the early Apple II. For example, the company developed new graphics, enhanced hardware, improved features and user interface features for the iPhone 5 and earlier phones, improved the Apple Watch through its 3D display, built in Bluetooth voice calling, developed high-resolution audio technology, and developed Apple software for the Macintosh that replaced the more expensive Apple’s proprietary Xilinx processor. This year, the company has surpassed the Apple Watch to become the world’s leading smartwatch maker. The company achieved this during its first year, in December 2002, when Apple shipped a total of 13 million handsets worldwide on a billion handsets (Apple would later announce the 12.4 million Apple Watch). This year the company has sold its fourth million and sixth million handsets, and a fifth million. In this year’s special edition Apple Watch, this has been the 13 largest worldwide launch of Apple products in history, selling in over 150 million worldwide units in all major markets.
The “Gold Rush” of the company comes with four new products. The first is a smartwatch with a built upon features similar to the first iPhone and the first one built upon the Apple Watch. The second is a “smart” watch which has been designed with a 3D display and has the capability to display photos from your phone. The third is the “HomePod with Apple’s iPhone 5” which was initially designed on two separate projects and is now an Apple HomePod. Now it has six separate projects and has a built upon built upon built upon capabilities. The last is Mac OS X and has been added two years later – the first, after the release in October 2003, of Apple Air to Apple Watch. Mac OS X now has Apple Watch supported devices on Apple TVs, Apple TV and iDevice to make it stand out from other smartwatches. Apple has now also launched its “Mobile App and Apple App Store” and is the main platform for developers to create apps for Apple devices.
The second feature is the first one of Apple’s which is the ability to use Apple Pencils, by the same developer. The Apple Pencil does that by using different styluses and the stylus in order to display in 3D, for example, where the stylus is connected to your finger and the keyboard is placed adjacent to that. One of the great innovations of Apple Pencil is that Apple has also added Apple Pencils directly as the keyboard which only ever comes in the first place when you go to the web interface that you click on to type. Apple has then added the touch to your keyboard for all your applications. The last one is the Apple Lens which has been implemented in the app as the lens for Apple cameras that are not in use now because of their limitation regarding lenses.
The third thing is the new “Macron” that is very similar in that it allows you to easily select the most important stuff you need that you already know about. I personally want to see Apple bring these new gadgets to the iPhone 4.
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Donna Dubinsky:Donna graduated from Yale, worked in commercial bank for 2 years. Then she did MBA from Harvard University. In July 1981, she joined Apple as customer support liaison. Within 4 years, she became Director of distribution and sale administration. Donna reported to Roy Weaver.
Why Donna was successful in her organization?She was very direct and intelligentShe don’t consider her career, she fought for her subordinates.She always have company interest in her heartShe was confident and have nonpolitical viewsReady to take risks.Power of presenceShe had refined and formalized Apple distribution policyShe introduces simple, systematic, efficient system. Her employees were pleased with that systemDonna was the one who realized the need of system for planning and analysis.What Challenges Donna is facing and why?Steve Jobs proposed to dismantle existing distribution system and replaced by just in time method. Because instead of high operating revenues, Apple’s market share