Major Factors That Contributed To Xiaomi Become A Leading Smartphone Company In The PRC

In the 1980s, Motorola was the major supplier in consumer market cellular telephone and pager systems. In the 1990s, Motorola was the number one of mobile sales. Today, “Motorola is a major player in a fierce electronic revolution of global dimension.” (Entrepreneur Media, 2011, p.1 ) .

In 1990 Motorola’s annual revenues were of the tune of 11 billion under the leadership of Bob Galvin and was raked in the top 50 companies of all times. It was the first company to develop Lean Six Sigma processes to deal with the onslaught of Japanese companies. Also by 1994 almost 60% of the phones sold in USA were Motorola’s. It was also amongst the first few companies to begin production in China, but it did have to face the issue of training the

Shanzhai (“Bandit”) Mobile Phone Companies: The Guerrilla Warfare of Product development and Supply Chain Management. By: John Rediehs, Malini Seelan, Rama Paidi 1 Table of Contents Introduction Page. 2 Case Analysis Page. 2 Suggestion/Implementations Page. 4 Conclusion Page. 5 References Page. 6 2 Introduction Shanzhai (“Bandit Cell Phone”) is shaping the entire thought process of development, marketing, and technology in the largest cell phone market in the world. A market that has long been dominated by the corporate players like Nokia, Samsung, and Sony now face a tenacious domestic threat defined by a grassroots culture spreading within China. Shanzhai companies as they are referred to in this case study have gained a steady market

HTC start up as a professional original engineering manufacture company (OEM) for PDA and other computer parts in 1999. While it changes its core business from PDA to smart phones, it discovered an opportunity of developing its own brand. In 2007, it brands itself into HTC while introducing the “TOUCH” series. This paper discusses the theory of global strategy for individual organizations and the necessary strategic actions for HTC in order to transfer itself into a leading smart phone company in the

As a global leader in the PC market, Lenovo’s success rests on its ability to deliver consumer centric innovations in products that deliver a blend of mobility, performance and price. Design is an infrastructural element that helps define every aspect of a company, including Web site, stores, customer support, packaging, and messaging as well as its products. Lenovo has a well-earned industry reputation for delivering superior quality products. Quality is a fundamental component and commitment to customer satisfaction by delivering products that are of superior quality to comparable offerings from their competitors is the key to Lenovo’s success. In recent years, Lenovo relies heavily on local manufacturing strategies to shorten

“We always keep on pace with the demand of our end customers, delight them through continuing maintain a close relationship between manufacturing, ongoing Research and Development as well as working closely with supply chain and outsourcing partners, to provide cost-effective, high-quality Smart phone, wireless devices and software to our customers, internationally. Constant Training and Development program and strong culture practices are held to motivate the employees, also, to ensure infinite innovation and creation come out from them. Most importantly, offer attractive

In my research, I found and article that discussed the launch of Apple’s Iphone which was created in America, but manufactured in China. Instead of trading internationally, China has made a competitor product called Xiaomi. The Xiami is smartphone that is almost just like an Iphone with all

We have selected Huawei Technologies Company Limited for our MIS project. We selected Huawei Technologies Company Limited because this is a Chinese company .At first we selected Citycell (Telecom Operator), but when we visited City cell we learnt that City-cell is now using Huawei product, and Huawei is a Chinese company. We know about the quality of Chinese product. Most of the Chinese product can not make people happy or satisfied. But we found that Huawei now is one of the top positions in the world. This inspired us about the Huawei.

Think about different market entry strategy so that the rivalry company could not stop them to enter into the market again.

Technology is a huge impact on society. It shapes the way people talk, work, and study. They can also change our perspective on life. However, the most influential change that came across the world is cell phones. They are one of the most valuable electronic devices that made it easier for people to communicate with another person. BlackBerry is the prime example of expanding the cellular universal. It changes the way people are using cell phones due to its high quality features. However, the BlackBerry company did not always have a perfect way of being managed and market internationally. They have had to deal with issues that affected them. Furthermore, there has been a case study about BlackBerry’s business aspects. It is called “BlackBerry

Take for example the competition between the 2 smartphone companies Oppo and Vivo. Both are relatively new in the market and is working their way up with their products that have their own special

Motorola, famous amongst mobile phones, and one of the top cellular phone companies in the world till late 1990, later it was captured by the company Nokia. While writing this case we have thrown light on the challenges and problems faced by Motorola around 2006-2007. One of the ideas incorporated in order to recapture the market in the year 2006 was to slash the prices of almost all the cell phones which impacted the returns of the company. Motorola did announce in the year 2007 that they will revive shortly and would have the market share back.

Inorganic Growth - Xiaomi should look to grow inorganically as much as possible. With a wide range of startups happening in technology & mobile content, Xiaomi can look to ideally invest in these companies and look to add innovative features and services from these companies to their products. With recent acquisitions of Segway by Ninebot (Xiaomi Backed), it shows Xiaomi’s serious intentions of expansion by means of acquisitions in terms of inorganic growth. FI would be critical in Xiaomi’s plans for further acqusitions as it looks to acquire them in India.

SITUATION: Once the largest computer manufacturer in the world, Dell has slipped to third in line behind Lenovo and HP. With sales of their once famed laptops and PCs quickly declining, their market share has taken a hit as a result. Lenovo and HP are not only to blame for Dell’s demise, Apple and Google have established new markets for smartphones and tablets that has shifted demand to these new toys away from laptops/PCs. These new disruptive technologies are a cheaper and thus more accessible substitute to the old guard (laptops and PCs).

Smartphone market is an emerging important market and is experiencing a wave of transformation with the emergence of new players (Basole and Karla, 2011). The competition among the smartphone markets is no longer simply through physical devices but though ecosystems, or platforms. This essay is going to look at the evolution of the market so far including how it will evolve in the future, whether a few firms will eventually dominate the market as well as the core business strategy is applied to the firms.