LIST OF TOPICS S. No. | TOPIC | 1 | Executive Summary | 2 | The IT Industry Profile | 3 | Introduction to the Company Profile – HP and Compaq | 4 | Pre-Merger stats for HP and Compaq | 5 | Relative Performance of HP and Compaq | 6 | HP-Compaq Merger | 7 | Objectives of the Merger | 8 | Expectations from the Merger of HP and Compaq | 9 | Key Points that encouraged the Merger Decision | 10 | Advantages of Merger and Opposition to the Merger | 11 | Considerations
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services known as an “industry”. An industry is thus a group of firms producing similar products or services. By similar products we mean products that consumer perceive to be substitutes for one another. Eg. Firms that produce PC’s such as apple‚ HP‚ IBM‚ Wipro‚ HCL‚ Although there are usually some differences among the competitors‚ each industry has its own set of “rules of combat” governing such issues as product quality‚ pricing and distribution. This is especially true in industries that
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The Hewlett Packard Company (HP) is a leading American technology company. HP was established by William Hewlett and David Packard in 1939; Operations were organized and set up in Palo Alto California as an up and coming IT and computing Systems Company. As the largest IT Company with revenues totaling $127.2 billion‚ in 2011 HP ranked #11 as a Fortune 500 company and established itself as the leading high technology company in America (HP Annual Report). The organizational structure can be divided
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Natalee Campbell Professor Lippert April 13‚ 2012. McKinsey and Company: managing knowledge and learning 1)The small firm “accounting and engineering advisors” was able to grow into the world’s most prestigious consulting firm in 50 years by focusing on the one firm vision. The most difficult internal challenge that the company faced was how to manage‚ release and benefit from the knowledge already held by the experts within the company.nThis required the effort of all the experts to communicate
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AWL (GE/McKinsey approach) | 1. Describe the business portfolio and the options available to AWL. The business portfolio of AWL’s 1998 fiscal year consists of three SBUs‚ namely three new marketing textbooks‚ including Advertising and Sales Promotion Strategy‚ Analysis for Strategic Marketing and Marketing Engineering. We can also see these three textbooks in the GE Portfolio Matrix as shown in Graph 1 and Graph 2. AWL should have clear understanding of these three new textbooks in order
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Strategic Plan of Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard’s operations are organized into seven segments: Services‚ Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS)‚ HP Software‚ the Personal Systems Group (PSG)‚ the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG)‚ HP Financial Services (HPFS)‚ and Corporate Investments. Services‚ ESS and HP Software are reported collectively as a broader HP Enterprise Business. In April 2010‚ the Company completed its acquisition of 3Com Corporation. In July 2010‚ the Company completed the acquisition
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Strategic Analysis on HP-Disney Alliance Introduction On October 9th 2003‚ Walt Disney Company‚ an international entertainment and media enterprise‚ and global technology provider Hewlett-Packard (HP) declared a ten-year strategic alliance for the purpose of developing innovative technologies and promoting Disney consumers’ experiences. The arrangement was achieved by jointly disclosing “Mission: Space” ride‚ which had been collaboratively designed and developed by HP and Disney employees for several
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2. HP SWOT Analysis Strengths: Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a global provider of personal systems‚ imaging and printing products‚ and technology solutions. It is the largest player in the inkjet and laser printer market. HP is also one of the market leaders in the global PC market. The one strength that I feel is important is that HP has a very strong distribution channel globally. Weaknesses: HP uses the Windows platform in all its I-PAQ phones. Incidentally‚ I-PAQ phones have been much criticized
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HP SWOT Strengths of HP 1. Global presence. 2. Strong brand image with high quality of product and service. 3. Providing customers service with specific technical support. 4. Successful Strategic Acquisitions. Hewlett-Packard has strong financial condition. Hewlett-Packard is a global company and became world’s biggest computer hardware. The growth of 26% in the Americas; 28% world-wide percent in Europe‚ the Middle East‚ and Africa; and 16 percent in Asia Pacific and Japan with the
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matter large or small‚ have to make internal changes in order to adjust to the external environment. Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)‚ a large and remarkable information technology corporation‚ like all other businesses‚ has been changing throughout its existing and has been fighting for the goal of establishing a sustainable market year by year. Based on the interest of working at HP after graduation‚ plenty of researches are done in terms of HP’s history‚ strategic changes and culture. This research paper
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