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2. Answer Case Study Questions 1 through 3 at the end of the case study.
Evaluate Nike using the competitive forces and value chain
models.
The competitive force that Nike utilize to position in the market over their
competitors, with huge amounts of profit, is their strategies they utilize to
convince their partners is managing very well their value chain, to ensure
that the development of their new products they will put on the market
meets the design, development and distribution requirements of quality to
provide their customers the best possible product that meet their
expectations but the success of Nike came from the value chain they have in
place.
The trend of Nike its growth and all that great position that makes them
grow each year its their innovative business model which provide the
company as leader in this industry is their product differentiation over their
other competitors, like the Jordan tennis shoes that every kid wanted
because they believe they can play like Jordan with the shoes, that influence
with their marketing campaigns position Nike as the leader in the industry, in
order to create this illusion for the consumers, they invest a bunch of money
in their marketing department, with over 50 million dollars just on this field,
they tried to highlight their brand with the fantasy of the stars behind their
marketing campaigns.
Nike with trying to make their products and experience to their consumers
unique partnership with Apple to innovate the industry of the shoes,
installing sensors to collect data and send to their partners devices like the
iPod or iPhones increasing the sensation of their consumers that are on top
of the technology and also interact with other devices that they already
have, and utilize every day, also providing the new customizable products
consumers can have a very unique item just as their partners did a while ago
to their devices like engraving their names, Nike now allow consumers to
create and customize colors and textures on their shoes.
When Nike lunch the Nike+ it change the game plan for the industry and is
leading since then, this technology provide the consumer the data, stats and
trend of their lifestyle changing their routines now the consumer can monitor
and adjust their lifestyle having the data collected as they perform their
schedule, every movement and activity its measured, and that technology is
fully customizable, and that is what the customers want they like to feel they
have the control of everything they buy, with all this features also Nike have
Blogs, communities and of course coaching tips to have healthier life.
Nike has become the industry leader and the main reason for this is that they
signed super stars of all kind of sports from football to hockey, promoting
their brand wear by super athletes over the world attracts more customers to
wear and purchased their brand.
The main advantage over their competitors is the ability to innovate and to
provide better products at a lower cost, even their major competitors like
Adidas cant keep with them, the reason they are copying what Nike lunch to
the market they just follow and dont innovate as much as Nike.
When we talk about the right to privacy the apple products and this include
the iPad, they capture data from the devices. The customers dont read the
apple disclosure that clearly tell the customers data will be collected, they
dont read all the information, they need to inform the clients that they are
being monitored.
Accountability, Liability and Control
Who can and will end up being accountable and liable for the harm
done to individual and collective information and property rights?
The Apple Company should be held accountable for their actions. Due to the
company having no usage policy in place, its immoral for them to take the
social practices of customers and keep a record of telephone calls, Web sites
and email communication, GPS locations if they desire.
Systems Quality: Data quality and System error
The consumers of any product should need to know and read with caution,
that they are providing access to all the data to these companies and that
they are monitoring all of us with the whole purpose of gathering our lifestyle
and sell new products to us, if we thinking positive it might be good because
it can be used for several things.
Quality of life: Equity Access and Boundaries
Even that the Information systems and new devices can be used as
advantages such as increasing production in an organization, ethical values
should be preserved because, violating somebodys privacy or any type of
computer abuse that a user perform is unethical.
4. Discuss the issue of privacy in activity trackers. What are some of the
ramifications of data sharing?
All our devices now days gather a ton of data about our lives, and lifestyle
depending on the apps you use and the settings you have on your phone, it
can tell where you've been, who you most recently interact with, and all the
passwords to your most private and personal accounts without counting all
of your pictures.
But all that data is going to look old-fashioned compared to what's about to
happen with the new technologies of wearable devices and of course more
data collection about you and your trends that's even more personal, also
the new technology companies are looking to track the details of our
personal health, now days nothing is secure from hackers and they see a big
opportunity into this information, the new wearable gadgets are going to
become more and more obtainable to people, then we're going to have to
fight against some serious complications like, putting our personal
information at risk by connecting our phones to fitness bands or smart
watches or if does anyone care that someone bargain statistics about your
heart rate or calories burned will it worth the risk of having all this data
collected, Even if most fitness trackers don't have a GPS sensor installed to
track our location many other can sync with your phone through Bluetooth to
transfer data and then GPS location will be record also all our routes we run
as regular basis, this communication process among our phone and the
fitness band could hypothetically broadcast info about your position and data
could be compromise.
I think there are data collectors that will be very driven into get all this
statistics, insurance companies and health care providers will become the
possible clients of all this statistics, the main reason will be to have a profile
of potential clients that had a sickness or a trend on their statistics that show
a possible disease causing to increase their cost to the consumers that are
more unhealthier or the trend will suggest they can have potentially a
sickness will lead to denial as well to their insurance.
References
www.nike.com, 2008
www.nike, 2008.
www.channelseven.com/newsbeat/99features/news19990624.shtml,
October 2003
www.adidas-salomon.com/en/news/archive/2000/2000-07.asp, October
2003