Motorola Corporation

Motorola Corporation has developed its five-step benchmarking plan. This plan consists of the following steps (Hodgetts 1998,196) ... 

Describe the five-step benchmarking process used by Motorola Corporation. 

Optical Communications Handbook, Mohammad Ilyas, Florida Atlantic University Power Electronics Handbook, Timothy L. Skvarenina, Purdue University Resource Handbook of Electronics, Jerry C. Whitaker, Technical Press RF and Microwave Handbook, Mike Golio, Motorola Corporation RF Transmission Systems Handbook, Jerry C. Whitaker, Technical Press Technology Management Handbook, Richard C. Dorf, University of California... 

Daniel R. Gamota Senior Manager and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Motorola Corporation... 

In 1973, Martin Cooper, a project manager at Motorola, presented a working handheld radio phone, the Dyna-Tac, to the public (Motorola corporate information). Pimple (1978) reports that Japanese NTT had developed a prototype for a handheld phone in the late 1970s and expected to introduce it in the 1980s. Tbe Wall Street Journal reported on Sep. 25, 1980, the headline Mobile Phones Fit for Pocket, May be Near . 

Corporate Research, Underwriters Laboratories, Northbrook, IL Motorola Physical Realization Research Center, Schaumburg, IL... 

Motorola SPS, 250 NEC Corporation, 358 NTT Electrical Communications Laboratories, 67,309 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 437 Nitto Electric Industrial Company, Ltd., 537... 

With the computer industry being as profitable as it is, there are many companies making CPUs for PCs today. The market leader in the manufacture of chips is Intel Corporation. Intel s competition includes Motorola, Advanced... 

When you contrast Apple and Dell to Motorola, it is easy to see why supply chain matters. The differences are many. Apple and Dell had a focused supply chain vision at the corporate level and it was embedded in the company strategy. Motorola did not. Motorola made... 

Lishen produces up to 200 million cells, which consist of more than 100 specifications. Lishen is well settled in the international market and supplies some big corporations like Apple, Dell, Nokia, Motorola ESG and Samsung. Lishen is also setting up branches in North America, Europe, Korea and Hong Kong. 

Industry and Business. Nearly all the major industries and business sectors rely to some degree on advanced ceramics. Gorning, Alcoa, Boeing, and Motorola are just a few of the major corporations that... 

Food—Kraft Foods, Smart and Final, Davis Lay, Ritz-Carlton, Hewlett-Packard, Seagate, Motorola, PPI, Clark Equipment, NCR Corporation, and AT T... 

In the 1970s the US company Motorola, manufacturer of mobile telephones and pagers, developed a similar cellular mobile telephone system. While disadvantaged in infrastructure equipment making. Motorola succeeded in mobile telephone sets. Motorola invented the first prototyped portable mobile phone in 1973, called Dyna-Tac, and became a leading manufacturer in portable cellular phones in the 1980s (corporate information from Motorola). Yet the first commercial cellular phones were developed by the Japanese Oki Corporation for the Japanese... 

The home market hypothesis suggests that firms that have their headquarters in or at least are committed in the lead market gain a competitive advantage over competitors. In the case of mobile telephone equipment, a comparison between the competitiveness of Nordic firms and their competitors supports this hypothesis. Nokia of Finland and Ericsson of Sweden are the biggest mobile equipment manufacturers in the world (ITU 1999), together with the US company Motorola. In 1998 Ericsson held 30 % of the world market for wireless infrastructure. Motorola 16 % and Nokia 11 %. Nokia held a market share in mobile handheld phones of about 23 %, Motorola 20 % and Ericsson 15 % (Ericsson corporate information). 

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