What are values and business functions in IT corporations?

Facebook has celebrated its one-billion-active-subscriber population to convince how it has generated the customer-based online-ad-monetizing platform. One of unimpressive performances is to experience a share price drop since its IPO in May, 2012, dissuading investors and analysts over how Facebook can survive in a long-run. Now it has refocused on so-called potential-customer-selling transaction to business firms that want to approach specific customers who have used Facebook pages and accessed to Facebook’s features. Everyone is waiting for real revenue results.

Pioneering and Leading Technologies and Governments in U.S. and Japan

U.S. and Japan have a few similar political and economic patterns; even Japan has favored group interests and cultural values in running the national political ideologies and government-guided economic policies. U.S Congress, both houses, is controlled by Democrat and Republican for centuries compared to Japan’s the Diet influenced and controlled by two big parties – Democratic Party of Japan and Liberal Democratic Party – and other smaller parties – People’s Life First, New Komeito, Your Party and others. Japan’s Prime Minister Candidate is nominated by the winning party at the lower house of the Diet. That party will choose the current president of the party as New Prime Minister of Japan. The new Prime Minister will choose members of the new cabinet. U.S. Congress runs with two houses – Senate and Representative. A senator has a 6-year-term office and a representative has a 2-year-term office. American voters choose a candidate for White House each very-four-year. Republicans and Democrats will nominate their U.S. President candidates for U.S. President Election. Japan and U.S. also approve new policies by opinions and decisions of legislators – members of U.S Congress and members of the Diet.

Consumer electronic products and Software Development

To offer alternative OS versions as strategic and competitive tools to Microsoft Window, Apple OS, Google Chrome OS and Open Linux variants. HP has tried to add new values into its computer products and software development by introducing its new released WebOS to open source communities. It is called LunaCe, ideally running on a Legacy TouchPad Tablets. Google’s Chrome OS has just been tested on Samsung’s Chromebooks with prices from $500 to $350. If both Google and HP can improve their new open-source-code OS versions, mostly compatible with tablets and Smartphone, two corporations will have more powerful edges to gain some market shares from Microsoft’s dominated Window OS. Apple has raised its market capitalization by shortening each new released product cycle of iPhone and iPad to generate substantial profit margins from the global market. The patent battle with Samsung is another proof of explaining how Apple needs to dominate Smartphone and tablet markets. Samsung has used Google’s Android OS. Samsung has leveraged its market competitive strategies to offer new Smartphones running Window Phone OS. HP has tried to catch up the mainstream consumers’ tastes to develop its own WebOS compatible for tablets.

Smartphone and Smartthings in Modern Societies

“Smartphone” and “SmartThings” are new tech-driven terminologies that have re-defined human lives or societies in three dimensional living spaces – (a) personal communication, (b) working tool assistance, and (d) personal entertainment experience. “Personal communication” has provided both convenient and flexible methods of personal communication – anywhere and anytime; including affordable and cheaper costs per minute or bandwidth of data speed and data usage. Text messages, live-time video conference and more are added into Smartphone and Smart devices. “Working tool assistance” is all embedded hi-tech functions and computing applications automatically or manually executed by users to fulfill special tasks. GPS, Map, and thousands of new apps are monthly and yearly added to provide more working tool assistances in all perspectives of personal and business activities. Interactive restaurant menus, shopping picture and video catalogs and mobile banking apps are among daily convenient tools. People can take control more of their lifestyles and working behaviors from Smartphone and Smart handheld devices. “Personal entertainment experience” is a unique combined quality of audio, video, live stream TV, HD movies, HD video clips or home-made movies, music (download and live music), social media and social networking, and virtual music instruments are among new high-quality features available in Smartphone and Smart handheld devices. People have reduced their times sitting in front of TVs, audio and video systems by adopting their personal entertainment lifestyles into touch-functioning-and-tiny-screen tools. Blue-tooth, Wi-Fi, 3G/4G and docking-adapter (USB, fire-wire cable, and others) can connect one device into any compatible system like A/V systems in a car, bedroom, living room, kitchen and office.

Economic Behaviors in Microeconomic Management

U.S. Economy is performing through sales revenues, profit margins and workforce size. Sales revenues are a positive sign of confidence and satisfaction based on prices of all sold goods and services. Each sales transaction is accumulated into the total of sales revenues which include cost of goods sold, business operations and other credit and debit items in a financial statement. Profit margin (Net Profit Margin) is a value of Net Income divided by Revenue timed 100. Net Income is a value of Revenue subtracted to Cost of Goods sold. If Revenue is bigger than Cost of Goods Sold, Net Income will be relatively a big value. A workforce size is a total of hired employees temporarily and full-time. A company can use economic metric or sales revenue per employee to evaluate how effectively salaries and rewards are impacted on each employee’s performance. A retailer can measure annual sales revenues based on hired employees at a specific store to determine business management plans. Among 50 states and cities in each state, the headquarters of a retailer can decide different sales programs and HR management strategies to achieve sales revenues, profit margin with a specific workforce size.

Market Watch and Business Organization

If a company analyzes an annual profit at a store or all store and then divide a number by all hired employees, it will figure out how much profit each employee has contributed to the company. In other cases, the company has sold products at its own stores as well as contracted distributors, retailers and online stores, the company may separate its incomes or combined profits in different profit accounts for strategic management plans. Such decision can help the company allocate human resource and operation budgets more effective and profitable. Furthermore, customers’ satisfaction is also depended on time-waiting, service quality and one-to-one consulting timeframe at stores and online chatting windows. To minimize a number of hired employees is another way of increasing profit margins, but also reduce customers’ satisfactions. Such trade-off is evaluated for short-term and long-term benefits.

U.S. Software and IT Companies in Their Own Revolutions

Groupon has offered daily coupons and discount tips based on where site visitors are in both mobile and PC version sites. Google has offered suggested information or advertisement automatic engines based on Gmail inbox mail subjects and contents. Social networking and free email companies can establish effective advertisement software to offer right products and services to online users or subscribers. Brick-and-mortar stores usually send coupon booklets and mails to local shoppers, card account holders and sign-up newsletter subscribers. Groupon can survive as long as online subscribers and visitors like the ways Groupon is doing compared to other methods of receiving daily best deals on merchandises and services. Groupon has just taken a dual role of in-store coupons and postal coupon mails exposing or displaying in front of prospective shoppers. Each person may look for some special deals on specific products and services during a year.

IT development strategies and future markets

The current hardware and software markets have turned out to be severely competitive among global giants like Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft and others. Facebook and Twitter have possessed one of appealing assets – social networking marketplaces. Hundreds million of subscribers or online users are gold mines for ad generated revenues and sales potential unities. Companies have spent hundreds billion U.S. dollar a year to advertise and market their products and services to prospective customers. Marketers and advertisers are now retrained to become professional PR specialists who can connect business brands to target customers, investors and stakeholders. Whether will Facebook disappear someday as well as Twitter? The answer is “Yes” or “No” because consumers can find other reasons to abandon both Facebook and Twitter, even investors have bet their money of billions U.S. dollar on virtual marketplaces.

Competition over Hardware and Software Patents and Proprieties

When Samsung and Apple are head-to-head on patent battles, Smartphone and table markets have experienced a new challenging platform. Such platform has defined how a software and hardware maker can compete with one another. Most PC makers have installed Microsoft Window versions with pricing strategies, customer services, features and benchmark ratings. Dell, HP, Sony, Samsung, Lenovo, Panasonic, Fujitsu, Asus, eMachine, Toshiba, Gateway, and others have outsourcing PC components to third party companies for manufacturing, assembling, packaging and shipping to retailers or warehouses for direct sales or retailing.

Security, Policies and Confidentiality over Voice, Data and Networks

Pricing constraints and advantages are two categories purchasing managers may choose low-end and mid-end equipment in IT, server, cloud computing, phone and network switches, routers and modems. Labor cost, technological capital, employment benefits and insurance have created nature of market comparative advantages between one country and others. In a certain objective conditions, a hardware maker cannot reduce its fixed cost from previously mentioned contributions to material prices and other business regulations; therefore, those companies may file bankruptcy or be acquired by foreign companies. Most of those disappeared companies are in developed nations. Most winner companies come from developing and emerging markets. Even those survival companies, in developed nations, have struggled to maintain their smaller market shares and thinner profit margins.

Pioneering and Innovative Technologies and Future of Business Organizations

Pioneering and innovative technologies can drive both established and start-up firms to become a dominant player in a next five years to ten years. Investors and institutional investment firms can buy new IPOs from those companies by objective and subject analyses. Sales earning and market shares are two first categories for confidence. Profits and dividends are next two categories because investors can receive immediate-cash payment as well as opportunities to sell shares at higher prices. In the current tech trends, consumers have used Smartphone, tablet and laptop to access internet based applications and media sources for business and personal needs. Business firms in manufacturing and services have reinforced their marketing and sales channels by exploring social networking, mobile payment, mobile commerce and mobile business applications for marketing, advertisement, PR, sales and transactions. Such changes can impact on lighter weights of products, embedded technologies for products and high-energy-efficiency in handheld devices.

Technology, Declined Cost and Content Quality for Earnings

As new technologies created or invented, a cost of accessing to technologies is also declined. Cloud computing implementation has benefited to both individual consumers and business clients. Why? Business firms can lower their IT service bills and then to cut prices charged on final customers. Individual consumers have also benefited from lower costs of final IT services – web design, web hosting and cloud marketing. Business clients can test their new websites’ capability of handling concurrent users all over the world at peak traffic. Furthermore, more feasible and realistic tests are undertaken to guarantee all versions of new websites smoothly functions – regular websites, mobile websites, and tablet website. London Olympic 2012 Committee has saved a lot of money to design and test its website London2012.org. SOATA.com is the company that is in charge of testing London Olympic 2012 Website. It has also served Best Buy Retailer and Netflix.

U.S. Corporations in Hardware and Software Competition and Cloud platforms

Wi-Fi connected cities will exist in most parts of 50 states in a near future. U.S. fiber cable companies used to lay down overcapacity networks in the late of 1990s and the early of 2000s under the boom of e-commerce and internet services. Mobile and Wi-Fi technologies have been embedded into household appliances and personal handheld devices to allow users to access to internet or broadband connections at faster speed with more content quality and multitasking applications. Users can do different tasks – movie download, movie-watching, word-typing, interactive-news-reading and others. Google Fiber is a pilot project in Kansas City covering wireless or Wi-Fi high-speed internet services to residents. Google offers with three package prices – Gigabit + TV at $120/month, Gigabit Internet $70/month, and Free Internet $300 one-time construction fee. Google Fiber will change both TV cable and Internet service markets in coming years.

Sales and Cost-based Innovation

A corporation tries to achieve sales goals through its distribution network, salesperson reward system, marketing strategies and consumer-oriented core value development. The distribution network can increase effective and efficient delivers from warehouses to retailers and stores (or direct sales persons). Each process of the distribution network is managed for speed, safety and quality handling procedures. Each business partner who is engaged in the progress may take more responsibility and financial cost to reduce wasteful time, human labor, transportation and warehouse storage.

America Corp's responses to the global trends

Banks have joined the patent sales market to earn commission and brokerage fees from patent owners and patent buyers. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and AOL have benefited their future business advantages by considering strategic patent technologies for both R&D and intellectual property wars. The more consumers have spent on Smartphone, tablet and e-commerce the higher values high-tech patents become. Personal handheld multi-functioning devices like Smartphone, tablet and video game controller have embedded too many high-tech patents that can deliver fast-and-efficient multi-task benchmarks impressing customers or subscribers. Values of such patent sales can explain how patent owners can generate loyalty fee revenues and transfer partially using patents to business clients.

Content, tools and efficiency are all target business functions

Mobile phone businesses include service providers like AT&T,T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, and other software application developers have benefited over various and content application choices for American consumers to choose. Smartphone has operated more effective and energy-consuming economically with newly designs mobile browsers and apps. Subscribers can access to different apps and browse their interesting websites on their Smart-phones faster and longer on a battery power.

Marketing Strategies and e-book Business

Marketing strategies have played a key role of luring customers to stores on a first day of newly released products like Apple’s iPad and iPhone. For many reasons, consumers who are eagerly to possess new cool devices can buy imported products from foreign countries or private sellers before the former’s country has an official sales of such products.

Content Services and Sharing Service Deliveries

Differentiation is one of key strategies to attract customers from other competitors. How to differentiate is another concern. By developing sophisticated content services, a business firm can satisfy more customers who pay a same premium, but now the latter can access to more services. To create economic programs or affordable services, the business firm also consider offering so-called sharing services for a same price or adding an small sum to a first primary customer' charge. The more customers explore such data pools of services the more efficiency and productivity the business can maximize its invested IT structures.

IT and Mobile Technologies

Today's businesses have at least those items:

1. Desk computers, laptops, tablets
2. Internet connections, Wi-Fi set-up, mobile devices
3. VoIP phones saving long distance and international calls

What are those devices and functions helping the business?

Integrating Academic Values into Reality and Business Practices

A gap of theories and practices is tested and narrowed down to a zero when a freshly graduate begins a new career life at a new employer's working environment. The faster a transition is completed the more the company earns profits. Why?

All employees have a certain constraints of adapting into new working environments in which experienced employees handle tasks at higher productivity compared to new hired ones. That is a reason for the company to provide necessary training programs for all new employees as well as during their working contracts. New technologies and standards of procedures are introduced and explained to employees during those training sessions.