The Walt Disney Company: Strategic Initiative Amy Doggett‚ Cherelyn Rodgers‚ Joanna Poehl‚ Laura Glod‚ Tracy Grigsby Finance for Business – FIN 370 Brenda Jaber University of Phoenix December 22‚ 2008 The Walt Disney Company: Strategic Initiative Most successful organizations practice strategic planning. These organizations benefit not only from having a plan‚ but also from the planning process itself. The plan is the road map to success‚ and the planning process unites organizational
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The HP-Cisco Alliance In early 1997‚ the first HP-Cisco alliance was first formed. HP was Cisco’s first publicly announced strategic alliance partner. The agreement between the two companies focused on technology collaboration‚ product integration‚ professional services‚ and customer support. The first contract lasted until February of 2002‚ when both HP and Cisco decided to further formalize and expand their alliance by signing a new contract. Shortly afterwards in March of 2002‚ HP merged
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Strategic alliances: Strategic alliances is an agreement between two or more companies to work together for a certain time in order to achieve some business objectives‚ help each other reach new technologies or to be able to build core competencies against other competitors. The traditional view about Strategic alliances is that they were formed for: - Defensive to protect profits - Means for preempting competition - Competitive and win - lose orientation. While nowadays there is
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Joint Ventures‚ Strategic Alliances‚ Collaborations and Merger and Acquisitions Questions | Q1. Why is a Joint Venture (JV) preferable to more general collaboration form of the Strategic Alliance? Q2. What are the relative merits and weaknesses of JVs and SAs? Q3. Why would company seek M&A as a market entry strategy? What are the advantages and disadvantages of M&A? why might a merger fail and what might be the outcome? Q4. What are the relative merits/ disadvantages of JVs‚ SAs‚ and
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"To what extent does popular culture serve consumer culture?" The Alliance In the present day globalization is ruling the world‚ where certain concepts and ideologies are dominate and it can be claimed that popular culture and consumer culture are the roots of it‚ as they both promulgate similar ideologies and products that contribute to forming a globalized world. Consumer culture can be defined as "a culture in which the majority of consumers avidly desire (and some noticeable portion pursue
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New HP Hardware‚ Software‚ Services‚ and Printing n late 1995‚ John Peter‚ a marketing manager of Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific Limited‚ was evaluating the division’s strategic options for doing business in Vietnam. The United States had lifted its embargo on Vietnam in February 1994‚ and the country had normalized relationships with many other countries‚ including China. The current economic development in Vietnam is rather slow and limited‚ and the infrastructures and the political-legal systems
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Case Analysis Hewlett-Packard-Compaq :The Merger decision Group no 3 Ninad Nigam Vivek Sharma 16 31 Abstract Of case The spirit of Case is primarily based on the issues related with potential acquisition of Compaq by HP. Case tells about circumstances of computer hardware industry at 2001‚market was highly competitive‚ frequent and fast product introduction in market ‚continuous improvements in product/price characteristics market needs quick customization in products and service
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planet today: damage to the natural ecosystem that sustains life for all of us‚ and the exclusion from participation in the world economy of most of the world’s population." —Carly Fiorina‚ CEO‚ Hewlett-Packard S 26 ustainability has become a strategic imperative for all businesses in the 21st century. It has become a fundamental market force affecting longterm financial viahility and success. Customers are requiring sustainable husiness practices. Shareholders are using "sustainability" as a measure
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Conner Webb & Dailey Beasley HP Pavilion vs. HP Envy The first computer we chose was the HP Pavilion dv6t-7000 series. This computer and the package included with it will cost approximately $925. This laptop has a web cam‚ a VGA port‚ an HDMI port‚ 4 USB ports‚ and a memory card reader. The hard drive has 750 GB of memory on it and has 7200 RPM. The graphics are supported by Intel® HD Graphics. It has 8 GB of memory apart from the hard drive and comes with a Windows 7 operating system and
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Question 1 Using a SWOT analysis‚ identify the key strategic fits between the two companies. What are the most important expected synergies? Strength Weakness Ability to serve customers at lower cost Compaq was a significant player in enterprise systems and HP in IT services business Wider spectrum of products for its clients through the merger Strong brand recognition‚ something that takes time to build Highly complimentary R&D Overlapping management Overlapping product
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