For the exclusive use of C. Portillo Cardenas, 2015 UV1201 Rev. Feb. 13, 2009 EMI GROUP PLC In this Internet age, the consumer is using music content more than ever before— whether that’s playlisting, podcasting, personalizing, sharing, downloading or just simply enjoying it. The digital revolution has caused a complete change to the culture, operations, and attitude of music companies everywhere. It hasn’t been easy, and we must certainly continue to fight piracy in all its forms. But there can
just four `majors ' owning dozens of famous labels and holding recording contracts (or back catalogues) for the vast majority of the world 's top-selling recording artists. The `big four ' major groups, including the UK 's own `home-grown ' giant, EMI Group PLC, also own rights to publish and to license the majority of successful songs, theme music, etc. These rights are increasingly important as the market moves towards a more fluid, ICT (information and communications technology)
1(a) Critical external and internal environmental factors that has a strategic implication for Apple’s future When relating to the external factor which has a strategic implication for Apple’s future, it can be best described using Porter’s five forces. Threat of new entrants Threat of substitutes Bargaining power of suppliers Bargaining power of customers Intense competitors at current state Porter’s Five Forces Current rivalry: Apple faces an intense and fierce competition
theory that Strategic Action Fields acts in response to environmental change is adopted to determine the state of the field. However, it is not able to be accepted to define the entire music industry by these terms due to a variety of effects that ancillary industries such as information technology are including different parts of actors within the industry. Therefore, exploring the terms about whether ‘established, emerging, and declining’ is a necessary thing to describe the state of strategic field
be caused by a bad economy, but another key factor is poor music quality. If the music is not good, then chances are the songs will not get purchased. Sales have been on the decline in recent years due to technology advances and lack of artist development is the main problems to this epidemic. The labels have been putting out manufactured music for the past few years and the consumers are unhappy. The next step is for the label to use its assets, such as an artist and labels to attract fans. More
1. There are several advantages to proprietary products over open source products: better quality control issues in creating products; a firmer control over the licensing, either the technology the product is based on or what material (music in this case) can be used with the proprietary device; the potential to build brand loyalty (for example Sony memory cards only work in their products, if you’ve already bought these cards you could be more likely to purchase additional Sony products in the future);
For example, apple itunes has comptetition with youtube for streaming video. In supplier, apple has Intel that supply the processor and computer memory, then with Microsoft that supply Office for Mac. In entertaiment, apple need supply from EMI, Warner, Disney, Fox, Pixar, etc to supply the apple store in itunes. Apple consumer can affect the sales in apple. For example consumers share music using peer-to-peer networks without paying for music, using custom firmware so costumer can install applications
Are Oligopolies good for British consumers? Introduction: Oligopoly has been derived from Greek implying "few sellers". According to Sloman & Sutcliffe (2001) oligopolies are a type of imperfect market wherein a few firms share a huge proportion of the industry. Therefore industries such as oligopolies have dominance of small number of manufacturers which may produce either differentiated or almost similar products. Nevertheless there are differences between perfect oligopolies and imperfect
people to stop illegal file-sharing, and start consuming music legally again” (Ek, 2013). It tries to attract customers who previously relied on illegal options for their music needs. Digital piracy is the single most important factor restraining development of the music business. Governments were involved to fight against it and established laws such as Digital Economy Act in the U.K. The turnaround dates back to 2009 when these anti-piracy laws combined with The Pirate Bay trial inclined customers
was not possible to absolutely define a market which Apple consistently performed in. Apple Inc.’s multi-functional product base gave a clearly indication of the underlying strategic management at play. It was accepted that Apple has defined its own market segment, that of ‘mobile electronic devices’. The four main strategic management themes of M.E. Porter (focus, differentiation and cost leadership), G. Hamel & C.K. Prahalad (structuralist), W.C. Kim and R. Mauborgne (reconstructionist) and J.