Previous Market Segments Previous to 2004, RIM’s devices were slanted towards corporate and business users starting with it’s Inter@ctive Pager 900 (Ziegler, 5). It’s mobile phone product lines didn’t become popularized until email became a mission critical application. RIM saw the potential in email and grew it’s business along with the popularization of the then nascent technology. [...]
Financial ratio analysis aimed at determining a business’s financial strength and condition. The Current and Quick Ratios are commonly used to evaluate a company’s ability to pay it’s short term obligations.
While RIM’s current and quick ratios seem low on first glance, it’s important to consider the business as a going concern. RIM had a higher than the current year’s industry average in 2007 because it’s current liabilities grew from almost half the current industry average to 3.35 times the industry average current liabilities. This increase can be explained by the release of the BlackBerry Storm, which was released November 4th, 2008.
I came across an interesting topic while reading “Trading and Exchanges”, by Larry Harris. It dealt with shifting cash flows in time. I personally love learning of new topics, and this definitely was a paradigm shifter for me. I decided to dig a bit deeper to see what else I could learn about the topic. [...]
I think one of the most challenging aspects of portfolio project management (PPM) is actually implementing a PPM system. In my experience, changing the culture of an organization that is used to ad hoc project selection/project management requires a significant ROI, and even then may not be implemented because management is not comfortable with such [...]
Project management can be a difficult enough endeavor, but managing a multi-cultural project team can add additional differences as well. It’s important to remember that not all of the differences that arise are negative. The three main differences are: Team member motivation (Anbari 2010) Communication style Heterogeneous idea generation Team Member Motivation According to Geert [...]
My current company manufactures hardware and develops software that assists Athletic Trainers perform their job duties. They have numerous projects that run concurrently to design and develop new hardware and software revisions. Every fiscal year management develops a list of key strategic goals that will improve the company over the next year. Each proposed project [...]
