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Filling the Shoes of Apple CEO Tim Cook: Where Will Apple’s Projected Future Growth for Its Major SBUs Come From?
Every CEO of a for-profit organization faces one problem in common: trying to find ways to increase future sales and profits to keep it growing!
Put yourself in Tim Cock's shoes One of his jobs is to search for new growth opportunities. Using your Knowledge about Apple products, do a quick analysis of four SBUs shown below to determine where Apple should allocate its time and resources Rate these growth opportunities from highest to lowest in terms of percentage growth in unit sales from2017 to 2020.
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