MARKETING CHANNELS EXECTIVE SUMMARY This case study deals with Hewlett-Packard (HP)‚ a famous manufacturer of computers and peripherals. In the early 1990s‚ HP faced a socalled “Inventory/Service-Crisis” concerning one of their high volume products‚ the DeskJet printer. Despite growing inventory levels at the distribution centers in Europe and Asia-Pacific‚ customer service levels were unsatisfactory. Affected by growing competition this problem had to be handled quickly. EXECTIVE SUMMARY
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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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part-time work in a garage with $538 in working capital. Bill ’s study of negative feedback results in HP ’s first product the resistance-capacitance audio oscillator (HP 200A)‚ an electronic instrument used to test sound equipment. The 40s HP´s products won excellent acceptance among engineers and scientists. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard create a management style that forms the basis of HP ’s famously open corporate culture and influences. They run the company according to the principle
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1.1 The history or background of the HP HP was started in a one-car garage in 1983 by two Stanford University classmates. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tried their hand at making and marketing an audio oscillator. Their initial success made them formalize their partnership between on 01 January 1993. The 1940s HP grows‚ Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard create a management style that forms the basis of HP’s famously open corporate culture and influences the later of technology companies. Hewlett-
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them‚ find one that meets my needs‚ and ask knowledgeable sales people about the advantages and disadvantages of competing products. Todd Bradley essentially completed a SWOT analysis of HP and realized that HP was putting resources into market where dell had the competitive advantage. Mr. Bradley also noticed that there was an opportunity for HP in the Retail PC market. Some strategic assets that HP had for competing in the retail channel included previous experience and relationship with retailers
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University November 6‚ 2011 Hewlett- Packard Company‚ referred to as HP‚ is an American multinational information technology company. Its headquarters is based in California USA. The company was founded in 1939 built in a Palo Alto garage by Bill Hewlett and David Packard and is now one of the world’s largest information technology companies operating worldwide in almost every country. It has 87‚000 employees in 120 countries. HP specializes in developing‚ manufacturing computing‚ data storage‚ and
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the process of recruitment within Hewlett Packard Ltd. There will be highlighted the strong points of the recruitment process but also the weak points of it. Also we will have a case study made on a person that was part of the recruitment process of HP‚ Andreea Popa‚ who is also one of the group members that made this project. Among the strong points we will mention the “Work – Life balance” concept. At the other side of the story‚ among the weaknesses of the recruitment process will be included the
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organization to achieve their organizational goal. Where‚ SHRM bridges the gap between employees and firm. It involves better management of employment relationship of all the employees in an organization to donate best towards the organizations objective. In HP HR people are able to develop strong working relationships with management in which HR have great role in the process of decision making. In this 21st centuary‚ we can see many of the organisations facing human resources issues and these issues have
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Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk The HP Kittyhawk case allows students to explore in detail why it is so difficult for established firms to succeed at disruptive technologies. The Kittyhawk team developed a 1.3 inch disk drive: a disruptive technology in every sense. From a project management point of view‚ HP did everything right. They had set up an autonomous project team‚ and gave the project heavy senior management support. The team focused on the emerging personal digital assistant
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producing plants‚ in which 23 are producing cement now‚ one cement plant if for only white cement and 4 are going to start producing cement by the end of this year‚ and these plants are producing yearly about 18 million tons of cement. The BCG Matrix of HP RELATIVE MARKET SHARE POSITION High Medium Low 1.0
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