EEMATRIX.COM, APPLE — The news will soon retire Steve Jobs began to show real signs. It is no secret, Jobs in trouble with his health and could at any time to leave Apple. A few days ago, Jobs looks back to the headquarters of Apple with a similar condition, thin and has not looked healthy as usual.
This is certainly the more alarming Apple and the ranks of directors. Jobs are a source of inspiration products, views and innovations as well as the key to the success of Apple’s leadership the last two decades. iPod, iPhone 1 to 4 and IPAD 1 and 2 is the product that other companies can not match. Android takes hundreds of products to can beat the iPhone, while Apple only need one product to survive in the top three as the top selling smartphone in the world.
Many are worried, after retiring Jobs, Apple would lose innovation like that ever happened to Microsoft after Bill Gates abandoned. Steve Ballmer is a successor to Gates, did manage to get Microsoft to survive, but is no leader who has a vision like Gates, he is an effective manager.
The proof is Microsoft’s innovation stagnated, the share price never rose, even the latest decline. Achievement of Microsoft as a company with the highest value in the market has also been defeated by Apple. Now even those that have a product that can be counted on the fingers, but Apple managed to become the most profitable company in the world.
Apple University
Well, of course, this condition can happen at Apple after Jobs retired. To anticipate this, Apple has square off founded Apple University. Reported by Businessinsider, to anticipate the retirement of Steve Jobs, Apple’s Apple plans to establish a university. The university is probably not in the form of an actual university, but an attempt to internalize the management style and philosophy that persist even after Apple’s Steve Jobs is no longer at Apple.
For this purpose, Apple has hired some people who are considered experienced and have special expertise include Joel Podolny, the former dean of Yale’s management school and a former Harvard professor Richard Tedlow, as well as other professors.
Activities of the professors of this is to write case studies on major corporate decisions, which is then used in a class taught by Apple executives. Case studies professor, among other topics such as why Apple decided to focus on one factory in China to manufacture the iPhone and the decision to build the Apple retail stores. The courses on these topics are taught by top executives of Apple, like Tim Cook and Ron Johnson.
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