Discussion on Business and Marketing
Either the General Business Track(select from one of the following paper topics):
I went to the premier of Jobs the movie about Steve Jobs. I could write a dissertation on this movie alone as it pertains to business. For this class, if you chose this topic, I would like for you to write a paper, with the below criteria, on one of the movies that IMDb lists as The 50 Greatest Business Movies (even though the list is 63 and I say Jobs can be # 64): http://www(dot)imdb(dot)com/list/1sOVGwqaaIo/ (Links to an external site.)
Watch the movie
Think about what you have learned in this class
Apply AT LEAST 5 of the 7 concepts covered in our textbook
o The Environment of Business
o Business Ownership and Entrepreneurship
o Management and Organization
o Human Resources
o Marketing
o Social Media, eBusiness, and Accounting
o Finance and Investment
Use terminology from the textbook to explain how the movie applies to real life and the business world.
2.) How has this class helped me with my personal home budget and finances?
3.) Ethics in the Workplace: How can I apply what I have learned in this class towards ethics in my workplace?
4.) 2016 and Beyond: Understanding the World We Live In and International Business Relations
5.) The Internet as a Business Tool: World Wide Marketing and Sales
6.) Other (If there is something you really would like to write about pertaining to this class and how you will apply it to "real-life", have at it...but it must be pre-approved by Week 10.)
All final projects should be 5-10 pages (this means 5-10 pages of relevant, paragraph form, content. The cover page, table of contents, reference page, appendices, tables, charts, and pictures ARE NOT included in this 5-10 pages). Please use APA format with cover page, table of content, in-text and reference page (APA), pages numbered, double-spaced, 12 font, Times New Roman, and content evaluation will abide by the discussion rubric regarding spelling, grammar, development of idea, concise content, with reference to the textbook or relevant Internet citation.
Make this paper nice and long.
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Table of Contents TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u Business and Marketing PAGEREF _Toc450074810 \h 3Steve Jobs PAGEREF _Toc450074811 \h 4Environment of business PAGEREF _Toc450074812 \h 4Business ownership and entrepreneurship PAGEREF _Toc450074813 \h 5Management and organization PAGEREF _Toc450074814 \h 6Human resources PAGEREF _Toc450074815 \h 6Marketing PAGEREF _Toc450074816 \h 7Home budget and finances PAGEREF _Toc450074817 \h 7Ethics in the workplace PAGEREF _Toc450074818 \h 72016 and beyond PAGEREF _Toc450074819 \h 7Internet as a business tool PAGEREF _Toc450074820 \h 8Cultural competence PAGEREF _Toc450074821 \h 8References PAGEREF _Toc450074822 \h 9
Business and Marketing
The technology industry has grown with leaps over the years and has massive impacts on the social, cultural and economic aspects of the society. Like the invention of the wheel, technology has massive impacts on the society and today influences most of the aspects of the daily life. One of the leading innovators in the industry was Steve Jobs. He became one of the most influential innovators and leaders in the technology realm, bringing some of the most fundamental changes to the way that people interact with mobile devices such as mobile phones, iPods, tablets and laptops among others. From a young age, Steve was largely innovative and an intelligent thinker (Biography.com, 2016). He was also frustrated with the formal schooling system, which he felt did not give the right traction to students that wanted more in their lives and careers. Growing up in his career, he brought some fundamental changes to personal computing. With the invention of the personal computer Steve was able to bring to million the ability to carry out personal and professional tasks with more ease. At the same, there is the element of the introducing the advanced hand held gadgets such as iPods, iPads and iPhones, which brought on a different approach to interact with technology. When they started Apple Inc. in the garage with Wozniak, they had a vivid vision of revolutionizing the technology industry by breaking the bounds that had been established by some of the companies at the time (Biography.com, 2016). They were able to change the industry by democratizing the industry (Kermode, 2015). They brought on board smaller computers, which were also smaller and cheaper. This also meant that the common consumers could now afford computers for their home and personal use. In light of the various business-oriented elements that Steve applied in his life, Danny Boyle, in 2015 released the movie, Steve Jobs attributed to innovation maestro. The movie that is classified as Biography, drama runs for two hours and two minutes and captures the business, personal and professional elements that made Steve Jobs an innovative leader (Collin, 2015).
Steve Jobs
The movie, Steve Jobs, was released to the theaters in 2015 and became one of the most gravitating, with attributes to one of the most innovative leaders in the technology sector. The movie is classified as biography drama and runs for two hours and two minutes. Directed by Danny Boyle, the movie details the life of Steve Jobs, bring out some of the elements that made him the greatest innovators in the personal computing industry and as vividly as Aaron Sorkin, it is the main screen writer (Collin, 2015). Steve's biography was, however, written by Walter Isaacson, who also detailed the life of innovative leader. There is an element of connection for those that had read the book and then watched the movie. However, as always there are those elements that may be missing from both media platforms. Watching the movie, there is an evidence of the quality of the directing skills that go into the development of the piece (Lemire, 2015). This is a trademark that boldly associated with Boyle's work. It is a tightly choreographed piece that brings clear lines in the visual and the narrative aspect, creating the perfect synthesis of performance and direction along with quality writing.
Environment of business
From the movie and even in Steve's life there is an underlying element of business environment that is brought out. When both Steve and Wozniak decided that it would be a great idea to come up with the Apple Company, they were looking at how best to approach a business environment. Ideally, at the time there was a big gap that existed in the industry. Most of the personal computers that were produced at the time were quite large and mostly definitely expensive. As such, though computers were becoming popular, this was only to a very small population of corporations that could afford to have them on their companies and the government institutions. For the rest of the consumers, the computers did not have any impact on their lives as they largely did not interact with them. Most of the people at the companies that had the computers did not also have the luxury of interacting with the very expensive hardware. Most of the computers at the time were also not as advanced. The business environment had not experienced any major shifts since the invention of the computer as only a few of the people had the chance to interact with them relative to price. Not many companies would have allowed all the staff to interact with a piece of hardware that was extremely expensive. This is despite the fact that the computers at the time did not have much computing abilities compared to what came later under Steve's innovations.
Business ownership and entrepreneurship
One of the aspects that are largely captured in the movie that indicates the basic attribute of Steve Jobs is that of entrepreneurial skills. In all the ventures that Steve got involved, he had the genius element of identifying gaps in the market and the ways in which he could offer a solution with a business twist to it. This was one of the most fundamental characters of Steve and one that made his a success at Apple and even most of his career. He was able to identify that most of the computers that were in the market were expensive, large and unavailable to the general public (Collin, 2015). At the same t...