The Top 10 Consumer Electronics Manufacturers: Global industry outlook and key player strategies, performance and SWOT analysis

Posted on 25th January 2012 in Consumer Electronic

The ,800bn global consumer electronics industry is witnessing transformational growth. The mantra of the industry today is convergence – whether of technologies or products or markets. Digitalization, miniaturization and mobility are driving this change. Further, intense competition is leading to commoditization of the industry, pressurizing margins. The industry today stands at the crossroads – where it must decide whether it will innovate to survive or search for alternative avenues of growth. For instance, faced with an onslaught from South Korean giants, companies such as Apple are reshaping the industry demand curve with disruptive innovations. On the other hand, many of the struggling Japanese firms are shifting to energy, environment and infrastructure businesses. This report explores the following domains:

Televisions;
Computing;
Mobile phones;
Other consumer electronic goods.

This report provides an overview of the global consumer electronics industry in terms of market size (based on value), key drivers and resistors, industry trends, and the competitive positioning of the major players. It includes profiles of the top 10 companies in the industry and also involves a brief write-up on another 10 players in the industry. The major companies in the global consumer electronics industry were assessed on the following parameters:

Each company’s growth strategies;
Key partnerships and alliances formed by these companies.

Key Features

This report provides an in-depth analysis of:  Read more...

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Effective Communication Skills and Strategies Training

Posted on 24th February 2011 in Communication

How to be a Powerful Communicator
By Brian Tracy

Your ability to communicate effectively with others will do more to make you successful than any other skill that you can develop. I’ve studied success and achievement in America for more than 30 years. I’ve spoken to more than a million people, individually and in groups, and I’ve taken extensive courses on the art of speaking and persuading others. I’ve read countless books and articles on how to influence, direct, control, negotiate and persuade other people in work and business. What I’ve learned over the years is that fully 85 percent of what you accomplish in your career and in your personal life will be determined by how well you can get your message across, how capable you are of inspiring other people to take action on your ideas and recommendations.

And more than anything else, we’re talking about happiness. You feel happy to the degree to which you can express yourself openly and honestly to others and to the degree to which others are influenced by what you have to say and how you have to say it. You can be limited in every other respect, education, contacts and intelligence, but if you can interact effectively with others, minute by minute and hour by hour, your future can be unlimited.

However, before I share with you some ideas, techniques and skills that you can use to accelerate your progress toward your goals, there are two major myths or fallacies about communication that we need to get rid of.  Read more...

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From you V. Me to We: Seven Strategies to Talk to your Communication Opposite

Posted on 25th January 2011 in Communication

From You v. Me to We: Seven Strategies to Talk to Your Communication Opposite

When Jodi said the headphones cost a fortune, Mike was confused. The price tag was 0 – expensive, but a fortune? Jodi speaks in superlatives, and superlatives don’t compute in Mike’s literal brain.

Rory went off on two tangents before returning to his original point. As a systematic communicator, Carlos missed Rory’s conversational detour and was so lost he missed Rory’s point.

What’s going on? What we see here is a failure to communicate due to seemingly incompatible communication styles.

Research pertaining to communication style uncovers four different communication styles that are determined by two factors – pace and people-orientation. “Visionaries” are fast-paced, people-oriented communicators. “Achievers” are fast-paced task-oriented communicators. “Reflectives” are slower-paced, task-oriented communicators. “Likeables” are slower-paced, people-oriented communicators. Each style has its own strengths and weaknesses. And like oil and vinegar, they don’t blend perfectly, but they do complement each other.

Communication skill training is never complete without analyzing communication styles and learning how to communicate effectively with different personality tendencies. Here are some dos and don’ts to help you bridge the communication style gap.

1, Ask the question, what’s my communication style? Take a simple communication test to find out.

Start your communication style development with yourself and your own conversational style. I offer a free communication style quiz on my website at: www.speakstrong.com. It’s also available in my book PowerPhrases! http://www.speakstrong.com/PowerPhrases!.html  Read more...

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Learning And Communicative Strategies

Posted on 1st January 2011 in Communication

Learning and communicative strategies

Introduction

Communicative strategies are systematic techniques employed by a speaker to express his meaning when faced with some difficulty and the difficulty here refers to the speaker’s inadequate command of the language used in the interaction (Faerch & Kasper, 1983:16). On the other hand, the term learning strategies has been defined as “the higher-order skills which control and regulate the more task-specific or more practical skills” (Nisbet & Shucksmith,1986:26). Based on the previously mentioned definitions, it could be said that learning and communicative strategies refer to language learning behaviors that contribute directly or indirectly to learning. I am not very concerned here with the definition of the two terms as much as I am concerned with the fact that most if not all non-native speakers and second-language learners use these strategies throughout their second/foreign language learning journey. They tend to use them to compensate for their lack of sufficient language knowledge and to get themselves out of troubles when interacting in the target second/foreign language. These are only some of the short term benefits of using learning and communicative strategies. In fact, the successful use of these strategies can promote longer term language development.  Read more...

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The Top 10 Consumer Electronics Manufacturers: Global industry outlook and key player strategies, performance and SWOT analysis

Posted on 16th November 2010 in Consumer Electronic

The ,800bn global consumer electronics industry is witnessing transformational growth. The mantra of the industry today is convergence – whether of technologies or products or markets. Digitalization, miniaturization and mobility are driving this change. Further, intense competition is leading to commoditization of the industry, pressurizing margins. The industry today stands at the crossroads – where it must decide whether it will innovate to survive or search for alternative avenues of growth. For instance, faced with an onslaught from South Korean giants, companies such as Apple are reshaping the industry demand curve with disruptive innovations. On the other hand, many of the struggling Japanese firms are shifting to energy, environment and infrastructure businesses. This report explores the following domains:

Televisions;
Computing;
Mobile phones;
Other consumer electronic goods.

This report provides an overview of the global consumer electronics industry in terms of market size (based on value), key drivers and resistors, industry trends, and the competitive positioning of the major players. It includes profiles of the top 10 companies in the industry and also involves a brief write-up on another 10 players in the industry. The major companies in the global consumer electronics industry were assessed on the following parameters:

Each company’s growth strategies;
Key partnerships and alliances formed by these companies.

Key Features

This report provides an in-depth analysis of:  Read more...

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From you V. Me to We: Seven Strategies to Talk to your Communication Opposite

Posted on 12th April 2010 in Communication

From You v. Me to We: Seven Strategies to Talk to Your Communication Opposite

When Jodi said the headphones cost a fortune, Mike was confused. The price tag was $350 – expensive, but a fortune? Jodi speaks in superlatives, and superlatives don’t compute in Mike’s literal brain.

Rory went off on two tangents before returning to his original point. As a systematic communicator, Carlos missed Rory’s conversational detour and was so lost he missed Rory’s point.

What’s going on? What we see here is a failure to communicate due to seemingly incompatible communication styles.

Research pertaining to communication style uncovers four different communication styles that are determined by two factors – pace and people-orientation. “Visionaries” are fast-paced, people-oriented communicators. “Achievers” are fast-paced task-oriented communicators. “Reflectives” are slower-paced, task-oriented communicators. “Likeables” are slower-paced, people-oriented communicators. Each style has its own strengths and weaknesses. And like oil and vinegar, they don’t blend perfectly, but they do complement each other.

Communication skill training is never complete without analyzing communication styles and learning how to communicate effectively with different personality tendencies. Here are some dos and don’ts to help you bridge the communication style gap.

1, Ask the question, what’s my communication style? Take a simple communication test to find out.

Start your communication style development with yourself and your own conversational style. I offer a free communication style quiz on my website at: www.speakstrong.com. It’s also available in my book PowerPhrases! http://www.speakstrong.com/PowerPhrases!.html  Read more...

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