Strengths And Recommendation For Huawei

HTC’s competitive position is not sustainable. In fact, the disappointing financial performance in Q1 2012 and the increasingly decreasing operating margin all points to a slower growth. Besides the statistics, HTC also face several imminent threats, such as the popularity of Samsung and Apple’s smartphone offering, the increase in competitors in the smartphone market, the shift in market, from operator push to brand pull, and the ongoing patent war with Apple. However there are also opportunities HTC can take advantage of to keep its competitive position. The opportunities are presented in the high growth rate of Smartphone Market, 61% in 2011, and the lack of well made Android Tablet.

* Its so-called innovative or revolutionary products do not gain the company as much credits as Samsung or Apple does. The market will test its ability to

- The Threat of Substitutes is high, since mobile product-life cycles are short. For example, Motorola is currently

It is important to pay attention to those manufacturers that are working with android (Not only concentrate marketing activities in apple or RIM), because the potential growth of the Google’s brand could be an opportunity to grow in smart phones sales, increasing the market share.

There are many competing brands of smart phones and Samsung has reported a decline of profits in 2014. Information from GSM arena shows than Samsung released 54 new phone models in 2014 , compared with 24 by HTC , 11 Motorola and 2 by Apple, leading to increased production costs and lack focus on a specific customer segments thereby losing some of its competitive advantage (GSM Arena , 2015).The lack of popularity of its own OS (Tizen ) and dependence on Google’s Android platform makes it vulnerable on google to develop an “ecosystem”. There are component integration issues as well as loss revenue from potential App sales (Strategic Mangement insight , 2015). Negative publicity from litigation due to patents are likely to continue as technology patents are vague and Samsung with is large portfolio is likely to infringe on some of the patents (Tibken, 2014).

Joseph Palenchar (2013) noted that “the old days saw BlackBerry’s market share in global smartphone shipments peak in 2009 at 20% and fall to 5% in 2012, marking the company’s lowest level since 2003.” (para. 3) “Increase the chances that BlackBerry can regain some of its lost market share during the make-or-break year of 2013” (para. 9) Revenue is declining because the market is becoming smaller. With Apple, Samsung’s products are growing deeply in customers’ impression, BlackBerry is standing in the behind position compare with those two brands. BlackBerry is not enough strong to attract those Apple and Samsung’s customers to choose its products even they produce the new products.

Innovation and R&D spending are signals of rivals’ competitive position. The key competitors in the Smartphone industry as of 2007 were RIM, Palm, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, and Apple. Each company holds a patent on its own operating system (OS) or a system based on Microsoft’s Window Mobile OS. Safe and secure voice and data transmission is critical to building a good reputation among consumers. The appearance, design and

Branding development should always go together with the vision of the company, it was pointed out by Chou; CEO of HTC that HTC will not blindly go for growth, and instead, it would rather deliberately focus on the “value”. A lot of time when a company is deliberately pursuing its’ growth, they lose its core values. Chou recognizes the importance of the economies of scale, but he would rather deliberately pursue the value that HTC can pursuit to its consumers. In other words, regardless of the business model, or brand of HTC; HTC focuses on creating their own core values. HTC is not entirely focusing on the value of technology or products; it also includes the value for innovation, brand, market, and management ability. HTC is no longer solely represented by a product, but to expand competitiveness in it’s over all capacities.

In conclusion of the Porter Analysis, it is apparent that RIM’s largest threat is their competition. The only other notable threat is the growing consumer buying power. If the company would become more innovative like their competition, it would add value to their product and take away from the consumers buying power. RIM’s market shares are decreasing largely due to the fact that they cannot compete with Apple and the Android because they are not offering new and differentiated products.

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.

6. The company has three main problems: the first problem is that they may unable to complete 200,000 IPhone 4 units in any of the three months they have been working on the contract. The second problem is they cannot hire more workers. The third problem is the company have problem with the Samsung flash memory installation. We have some suggestions for the company to solve these problems. Firstly, Danshui Company should improve their salary policy. We recommend company should motivate workers to produce more efficiently, for instance, they can set a basic salary for workers and offer them bonus if workers complete target. Secondly, the company should provide professional training for labors. So they can work more efficiently. After workers becoming more professional, the company cannot only use less labor hours, but also save more materials. A third suggestion is that Danshui Company should also improve the quality of production supervision. They should hire a more professional supervisor who is familiar with the production process and is able to build a good relationship with labors, so they can work more efficiently and the company can even save more money on materials.

On January 23, 2003, the world’s leading computer networking equipment maker Cisco Systems, headquartered in San Jose California, filed a lawsuit against China-based Huawei Technologies and its United States subsidiaries Huawei America and FutureWei Technologies. In the lawsuit, Cisco alleged that Huawei stole intellectual property by copying its Internet Operating System (IOS) software and its copyrighted user manuals. Cisco also claimed that Huawei infringed on its patents. After numerous failed attempts to resolve these complaints directly with Huawei, which included a cease and desist letter to one of Huawei’s United Kingdom distributors, Cisco decided that a lawsuit was necessary to

Such methodologies enhanced the confidence of customers and users of Huawei products. Such interventions lead to increased profits and productivity of the employees. The workforce was engaged in training and induction workforce that was rewarding to their experience as well as improve on their productivity. Well-motivated and compensated workforce maximizes their productivity in the industry by expressing their talents, creativity and capabilities to meet the organization's organizational goal. Teamwork and good leadership qualities formulated a critical path in the industrial revolution for Huawei. Teamwork ensured that there is a sharing of a common vision and direction among the employees. Effectiveness is enhanced when the management and workforce share a common goal and objective. It ensures that there are no instances their mindset is diverted to unnecessary goals. In addition, it helps in doing things differently if the vision is to be achieved. The move to freeze some of the employees improved the delivery of service since it is easier to manage smaller groups within the

Besides, to succeed its challenge Cisco in this industry, Huawei’s needed to show it pin-point company strategy on its capabilities and core competencies, generic competitive strategy framework and international strategy to against Cisco.

Xiaomi was growing rapidly in the last five years in which it has become the world’s third largest smartphone company. Xiaomi has a great understanding of its customers and the market; therefore, it was able to attract many customers and create high quality products. One of the major factors that contributed to Xiaomi’s success was the mobile internet and e-commerce strategies. Xiaomi grew into a mobile internet and e-commerce company that contract-manufactures smartphones and compatible devices designed to offer a complete customer experience. The second major factor was Xiaomi’s world-class team. Xiaomi contained a world-class team of Chinese executives and one prominent western executive, with collective experience at top foreign IT firms like Google, Microsoft, Motorola, and Yahoo. Its executive team complemented Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s driven founder and CEO, and brought attributed that Lei Jun lacked. Furthermore, the last major factor was Xiaomi’s manufacturing model, which is based on customer demand. In other words, when Xiaomi’s customers place their orders