Due to health problems, in the near future, Steve Jobs would Retirement, Prepare Apple University

The news will be soon retired for Steve Jobs to began to show real signs. It is no secret, Jobs in misarable trouble with his health and he could at any time to leave Apple. A few days ago, Jobs looks back to the headquarters of Apple with a similar condition, thin and has not looked healthy as usual.

This is certainly to make more alarming for Apple and the ranks of directors. Jobs are a primary source of inspiration products, views and innovations as well as the key to the success of Apple's leadership in the last two decades. iPod, iPhone 1 to 4 and IPAD 1 and 2 are the products that other companies can not match. Android takes hundreds of products to be able to beat the iPhone, while Apple only need one product to survive in the top three as the top selling smartphone in the world.

Many are worried, after retiring Jobs, Apple would lose innovation like that ever happened to Microsoft after Bill Gates abandoned. Steve Ballmer is a successor to Gates, able to be managed to get Microsoft to survive, but is no leader who has a vision like Gates, he is an effective manager.

The proof is Microsoft's innovation stagnated, the share price never rose, even the latest decline. Achievement of Microsoft as a company with the highest value in the market has also been defeated by Apple. Now even those that have a product that can be counted on the fingers, but Apple is managed to become the most profitable company in the world.

Apple University

Well, of course, this worse condition can happen at Apple after Jobs retired. To anticipate this, Apple has square off founded Apple University. Reported by Businessinsider, to anticipate the retirement of Steve Jobs, Apple's Apple plans to establish a university. The university is probably not in the form of an actual university, but an attempt to internalize the management style and philosophy that persist even after Apple's Steve Jobs is no longer at Apple.

For this purpose, Apple has hired some people who are considered to be experienced and own special expertise include Joel Podolny, the former dean of Yale's management school and a former Harvard professor Richard Tedlow, as well as other professors.

Activities of the professors is to write case studies on major corporate decisions, which it is then used in a class taught by Apple executives. Case studies professor, among other topics such as why Apple decided to focus on one factory in China to manufacture the iPhone and the decision to build the Apple retail stores. The courses on these topics are taught by top executives of Apple, like Tim Cook and Ron Johnson.

By doing this Apple executives can at least understand the decisions taken by Steve Jobs and trying to learn from it. Later Apple executives would know the secret decision made by Jobs and how to implement these decisions with Jobs-style course.

However, this certainly is debatable. Most top executives or the CEO has a vision and a keen intuition than ordinary managers. This is because the experience and skills that allow only those owned by the CEO. Now with teaching what Steve Jobs did, of course not be guaranteed to those who participated in a university course Apple is going to follow all the lines are never taken by Jobs, because they are human beings not machines.

Minimum target for those who go to university later this Apple is Steve Jobs trail will continue entrenched in the management of the abandoned, while hoping that Apple's new CEO will be the same as Jobs certainly very unlikely.

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