Case Study Of Verizon Wireless Executive Relations

Currently, Verizon Wireless has two major billing systems: I2K and VISION. In accordance with the strategic goals of the company and taking into consideration the corporate vision and credo, the executive management decided that having one billing system would be congruent with the objectives of the organization as a whole and the IT group in particular.

The role of this job is to provide motivation for the sales team to do well and increase the amount of sales that they make. They have to make sure that the sales team is loyal and polite to customers so that customers come more to shop at their store. Also they have to make sure that the experience for customers is good and pleasurable so that they come in to the store more.

In order to identify Verizon's core competencies, a SWOT and Five Forces analysis was performed. The SWOT analysis showed internal strengths in technology diversification, a large and talented employee resource pool, and an expansive network footprint. Internal weaknesses were revealed that centered on post merger issues such as corporate culture issues, impending workforce retirements, and a lack of systems or process consolidation. External opportunities include the potential to further capitalize on incumbent status, diverse markets, long distance, and brand identity. Finally, external threats include government regulation, substitution, and a weak economy.

The generation of talking face-to-face is slowly fading away, and the technology era is going to keep on growing. One of the most widely used technology services known today is the cellular phone industry. According to the Pew Research Center’s website, 90% of American adults own a cell phone. Of that 90%, the smartphone ownership is at 64% (2013). Verizon Wireless, along with the other major carriers, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T, have taken this data and comprised a growing industry where competition arises from all angles. These companies have battled one another on pricing, plans, and customer service for many years in order to stay on top. Unfortunately, these are major factors in whether or not a customer will choose the particular company over another.

In business, market structure plays an important role, which helps to shape the competitive landscape for businesses at all levels. Each business industry will naturally form a market structure that comes in numerous forms: Perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, or monopoly. Verizon Wireless is a well-known communications company and large enough to affect the market. Oligopoly is defined as a market in which only a few firms dominate, and judging from Verizon competition there are only a few firms involve: T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint. With only few competitors involve the barrier to entry is high, but there still lies a large pool of customers. The barriers are high because of the amount of money that has to into the infrastructure

Executive Summary—Brocade Communications Systems (“Brocade” or the “Company”) has been a pioneer of the storage area networking industry. The Company has an established brand name with a loyal customer base and is generally perceived by IT community as areliable and innovative technology provider. Greg Ryes, president and CEO of the Company, along with his executive team, has to create and implement a pivotal marketing strategy plan for the Company’s newest product Silkworm® Multiprotocol Router (“Multiprotocol Router” or the “Product”). The major goal is to execute a turnaround that would stabilize and increase the recent sales volatility. The new product is aimed to provide solutions to multiple SANs insufficiencies. Greg Ryes faces couple major questions: which market segment the Company will target, and which distribution channels should choose for product launch.

Thank you for allowing Verizon Wireless the opportunity to respond to Ms. Kettle’s complaint. In her complaint, Ms. Kettle states she signed a contract with Verizon Wireless on July 22, 2017. A few days later she received notification via text message that her account was placed on paperless billing. Therefore, she did not receive her first invoice until August 28, 2017. The invoice included charges for two months and a late fee. Ms. Kettle requests assistance with this matter.

Verizon is a major telecommunication provider in the United States. The company is the market leader, with $110 billion revenue and $2.4 billion in profit (MSN Moneycentral, 2012). Verizon has steady revenue streams that are largely based on a subscription model. It has several business segments, including wireless (63.3% of revenues) and wireline (36.7%) (2011 Verizon Annual Report). Most of this report will therefore focus on the wireless business, not only because this is the largest business that the company operates but because it is a rapidly growing and evolving business as well, a function of the rapid pace of smartphone adoption in America.

1. Mission, vision, and primary stakeholders Verizon's corporate mission statement is published in the introduction to the 2010 report, "to enable people and businesses to communicate with each other. We are also committed to providing full and open communication with our customers, employees and investors" (Verizon, 2011a, p. i.). This conveniently outlines the primary stakeholders, with customers owning the service delivered through contracts they commit to, employees obviously having a stake in compensation, benefits and retirement, and investors including institutions as well as individuals. Other stakeholders include the general public who benefit from corporate giving and responsibility, and the suppliers and distributors, their shareholders and employees who earn profit and wages generated directly and indirectly as part of the Verizon value chain, and perhaps the taxpayers who enjoy public services from direct and indirect (capital gains) taxes thereby.

Verizon wireless is a joint venture between U.S. based Verizon communication and U.K. multinational giant

“As a leader in communications, Verizon's mission is to enable people and businesses to communicate with each other. We are also committed to providing full and open communication with our customers, employees and investors”

Verizon Communications is not able to achieve its objective of becoming the market leader in delivering innovative, integrated communications solutions to its customers (management).

The purpose of training and developing within any organizations is to improve the overall effectiveness of goods, product and services, competitiveness, and emphasizes growth in all aspects. It also increases productivity, develop employee turnover, increases financial gain, and lessens the managerial and supervisory positions. Training and developing is essential to obtain but many employers have different perspectives of what training and developing means for its organization. Verizon is one of the leaders in innovative wireless communication and in delivering broadband to businesses, mass market, wholesale, government, and it services over 80 million customers across the world. The

The success of the economic agents depends on a multitude of forces, such as the managerial ability to combine and exploit the resources in an efficient manner, the ability to manage the labor force or the ability to develop positive relationships with the external stakeholder, such as the customers, the business partners, the public and so on. Still, while all these factors are crucial, they are merely adjacent to the core operational function which builds towards organizational success, namely the organizational operations.

The Verizon Communication Company deals with the sale of products like mobile and fixed telephone and offers broadband wireless internet services in America. It was founded in 1984 as Bell Atlantic and later changed the name to Verizon Company after merging with GTE in 2000 (Sbeit, 2008).