Apple Inc.: Capital Framework and Types of Capital

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Business
Apple Inc.

Business
Apple Inc.
Introduction
Apple Inc. is an American based international technology company. Apple Inc. headquartered
in California that deals and sells electronics, gadgets, computer software and provides
internet services. Hardware products of Apple Inc. comprise of the iPhone smartphones, the
Mac laptops, iPod, the Apple smartwatch, Apple TV, and smart speaker Home Pod. The
software of Apple Inc. is iOS and macOS operating system. The media player is iTunes; web
browser is Safari in gadgets of iPhone (Finkle, and Mallin, 2010).
The founders of Apple Inc. are Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Wozniak, founded in
April 1976. Apple has about 35000 of the workforce across the world and had annual sales of
US$32.48 billion by 2016. Apple Company has developed goodwill among customers in the
electronics industry. This is because the company and its brand name have a unique
reputation especially in the United States (Kang, 2013).
Capital Framework
The capital framework is an innovative procedure for the upfront calculation of capital works
funding proposals in the ACT. The capital framework improves upfront consistency in
requirement analysis, documentation of risks and transfer model consistency dynamic
enhanced value for capital outcome in the Region. Investment lifecycle is the procedure of
forecasting, suggesting and distributing investments. To encourage the best investment result
for the ACT and to give applied guidance and tools that support in the process is objective of
the capital framework (Stanton-Salazar, 2011).
Types of capital and its influence on the Apple
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Capital has three essential factors: volume, structure and composition and the variation of
these two elements. The effectiveness of capital relies on the field in which it functions.
Capital can be understood as energy: it is the way through which problems are arranged and
positions are achieved. To achieve in an effective manner an organization should have
collected the suitable capital, and understand the Intellectual, Social, Cultural and Economic
types of capital discussed in the Capital framework by (Townley, Grewar, and Winter, 2013).
Apple Economic capital includes property, fiscal income, monetary incomes, assets, etc.
Apple social capital includes the actual and possible resources related to the ownership of
durable networks. Apple Cultural capital is in the personified state in the form of long-term
behaviors, attained through the socialization of family and friends, and in an established state,
as learned education, knowledge, and qualifications. To act as representative capital
Economic, Cultural and social capital of Apple also have the ability (Apple, 2012).
 Intellectual capital in Apple
 Recognizing creative talent: - Company like Apple are more creative than the
average company from the leadership consulting (Bolívar, and Chrispeels, 2011).
 New product development: - Apple is an especially enigmatic business. Therefore
new product development can be one of the greatest successful design method
executed ever (Bolívar, and Chrispeels, 2011).
 Experimentation strategies: - Apple has experimented with the product line,
therefore, the products are mostly unique and successful because Apple has never
been afraid to take risk and experiment (Townley, Grewar, and Winter, 2013).
 Motivating innovative working: - A leader in the industry has proved the
efficiency in their innovative working by turning into new ideas and respected
company across the world (Townley, Grewar, and Winter, 2013).
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 Knowledge customization: - Apple products have been planned in such a way that
we live. They support customers to work easier and productivity, help in solving
problems creatively (Townley, Grewar, and Winter, 2013).
 Digitalization: - The strategy of Apple is to move beyond the phone or tablet as
only being a communication device is not enough for the company (Townley,
Grewar, and Winter, 2013).
 Protecting intellectual property rights: -Apple improvement is personified in its
intellectual property rights that consider Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
(Townley, Grewar, and Winter, 2013).
 Handling risk and innovation: - Apple is expert in risk handling and in its
innovation to their products.
 Franchising: - Franchising is very essential to gain quick success in the field of
business and entrepreneurship (Dumay, Rooney, and Marini, 2013).
 Social Capital in Apple
 Recognizing and creating networks: - The network properties contain much more
than recognizing a large user base and this is what it makes hard to form other
networks (Bian, and Leung, 2015).
 Network development: - To contribute to an adequate level of cross-border
interconnection and to contribute to non- discrimination, effective competition and
the efficient functioning of the market (Townley, Grewar, and Winter, 2013).
 Company collaboration: - Collaboration can give benefits to the company about a
completely defined and agreed business objective and market focused projects.
 Manipulating digitalization: - Apple starts leaking into consumer requests, some
of that will naturally decode into teleconferencing and CGI characters (Townley,
Grewar, and Winter, 2013).
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