My report is on the company Hewlett – Packard (HP) which was founded in 1939. I mainly focused on the Personal Systems Group (PSG): business and consumers PCs mobile computing devices and workstations which is one of the major industries of HP. In order to succeed in the business industry a company needs to understand its customer’s needs and create wants for them. HP found out that the customer needed light weight‚ useful notebook PCs through its Research & Development (R&D) centre. Hence‚ it created
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HP Hewlett-Packard is the world’s largest manufacturer of personal computers in the world in terms of unit volume and annual revenue. Its Personal Systems Group (PSG) has a 17.9% market share though the Personal Systems Group forms 34% of HP’s total revenue. Segmentation Hewlett-Packard follows the differentiated manner of marketing since HP targets different markets depending on their income budget or the customer needs. With the acquisition of Compaq‚ they have added more budget computers into
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HP 1.What was the problem or problems facing HP’s board of directors? The main problem was how the board of directors dealt with finding the source the leaking of information. The board chairman lead a private investigations using pretexting methods to investigate other board members to find the source of the leaking. Pretexting in the form of calling phone companies‚ pretending to be someone else and requesting private information on their account. This method of investigation was highly intrusive
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December‚ 2011 “TRANSFORMATION PROCESS OF HP” Submission on ?? Jan‚ 2012 Submitted To: DR. Ahmed Farouk Prepared By: Omar Shams‚ Ehab shafei‚ Walid Sobhy‚(our fifth member) ‚ Yasser Saleh ____________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT This report will present transformation process of hp corp. By discussing the following topics: Organization background‚ organization culture specifically “hp way”‚ One of the leaders who leaded the company
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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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HP acquired Autonomy by offering 64% premium over its market value of 7.1 Billion which is almost equal to 1.7 times the change in market capitalization value of HP at the announcement. The announcement was not taken very positively by HP shareholders and the decline in stock price resulted in a 4.2 Billion decrease in market value of HP.On the other hand‚ stock price of Autonomy went up by 72%.The whole deal meant that HP had to suffer a loss of almost 8.2 Billion on acquiring Autonomy. When a
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Introduction Computer/Technology Industry The computer/technology industry has many key players with two of the major competitors being Dell and HP. The computer industry has come a long way since its first inception with the invention of Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer in 1946. This industry is comprised of many items such as computers‚ monitors‚ printers‚ scanners‚ mainframes‚ servers‚ electronic computer components‚ networking and workstations to name a few. The industry started
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HP and the enterprise cloud HP sees an opportunity to couple HP’s pure-play IaaS cloud with private HP clouds that will "integrate very naturally" with each other. In that hybrid approach‚ HP relies on OpenStack‚ the open source cloud operating system‚ to provide the underpinning for HP’s public and private cloud offerings. Q: What sort of developers do you feel will be inclined to adopt HP’s cloud offerings? HP: We’re going after the enterprise developer‚ where there are a bunch of expectations
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Yuri A. Batten Module 2 Case 2: HP Pretexting Scandal ETH501 TUI University Dr. Bonnie Adams Who is ever responsible for the wrong-doings of a corporation? Is it the person who actually commits the crime or the company that hired the person who committed the crime? In today’s world of finger pointing and blame shifting‚ anyone’s guess is as good as mine. Should Patricia Dunn‚ former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard (HP)‚ have been forced to resign? In my mind the answer is yes‚ without
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1. INVENTORY/SERVICE CRISIS FOR HP DESKJECT PRINTERS There are a number of causes of the inventory/service crisis described in HP: • The first cause was the demand variability of printers. For example‚ the demand for model A in Europe had the monthly standard deviation of 32.4 while the monthly mean was 42.3. Combined with increasing pressure from resellers that forced HP to offer the resellers flexible distribution‚ fluctuations in demand resulted in the high levels of safety stocks and high
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