Strategies of Global Industries

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The paper reviews the transition from mainframe to microcomputer that the microprocessor enabled. The paper shows that this industry is globally diversified, with different regions participating in manufacturing and sales. Analyzing the microcomputer industry, the paper shows that a strategy of constant change needs to be pursued in order to compete. The paper identifies globalization as increasing the pace of change and increasing the amount of competition. Further impetus for change, the paper finds, came in the widespread use of the Internet, PDAs, and mobile phones, which used microprocessors to put more devices in more places than imagined scant years earlier. The paper concludes that consumer demand for a more and a wider variety of devices will only accelerate the rate of change.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Global Expansion
Strategies
Monopoly and the Global Focus
Development of Graphics
PDA's and Mobile Phones
Japan and the U.S.
Conclusion
References

From the Paper:

"According to the industry, in 1994 computer industry held a 50% of the European market while in Asia and Pacific the US held 40% and 17% in Japanese market. By this time the microcomputer is no longer a desktop device but had taken on a new shape - laptop. This gadget that has all the features of the microcomputer is portable and made easy for a traveler to carry all kind of computer related files/documents to any kind of destination. Although this has been used at a corporate level only, its industry nevertheless boomed along with the desktop."

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