Eduardo Toledo Professor Tryna Hamilton GEO 334 23 February 2013 Which of the cultural value dimensions that we discussed (from Hofstede‚ Trompenaars and the Globe Project) do you think best describe Silicon Valley’s unique culture? The Silicon Valley culture has many different aspects; therefore‚ it’s hard to define strictly one cultural value dimension from the three different ones we talked in class. It is more efficient and informational to look at a few different characteristics that
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ATW393E Tutorial Exercise Group: F4 Chan Kean Sam (100235) Kong Feng Pei (100309) Wong Kit Wah (100437) Zhao Yu (103247) ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Exercise 5 * SWOT Matrix SWOT analysis‚ or SWOT Matrix model is a useful method to analyze the competitive level of a company. When we want to analyze an internal environment of an organizational‚ we have to identify its strength (what
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The HP-COMPAQ Merger “A hi-tech giant or another merger fiasco” 1 Executive Summary. The world’s largest corporate Information Technology merger began in September 2001 when HP announced that they would acquire Compaq in an all stock purchase valued at $25 billion. Over an 8 month period ending in May 2002‚ the merger passed shareholder and regulatory approval with the end result being one company. The new HP has annual sales of approximately $90 billion which is comparable to IBM‚ and an
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surprise investors had come to expect. For years‚ Dell had been recognised as one of the most outstanding companies in the technology market—famous for high earnings and surging stock prices. It had consistently outpaced its major competitors‚ Hewlett Packard Company (HP) and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)‚ on revenue and earnings growth [see Exhibits 1A to 1C]. 1 Breen‚ B.‚ “Living in Dell Time”‚ Fast Company‚ November 2004. As per Dell’s income statement for the fiscal
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| Research on Laptop Buying behavior of students in SIC | Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for Research Methodology 2008-2010 | s | | | | Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Background (Including Scope) 3 Research Methodology 3 Primary Research Objective 3 Secondary Research Objectives 3 Exploratory Research Findings 4 Research Methodology 4 Data Collection Method 4 Analytical Techniques 4 Time Schedule 4 Preliminary Decisions 5 Questionnaire Design 7
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Despite HP- CISCO top management intentions and senior and middle management commitment to renewed alliance stalemate has reached‚ due to lack of clearly defined ground rules‚ absence of detailed plan of action‚ cultural disconnect in decision making and non availability explicit financial integration plan. Summary of the problem: Despite being convinced and committed for the alliance‚ HP‚ the largest and CISCO the third largest Silicon Valley IT Company‚ their alliance organization could not reach
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The modern gaming equipment manufacturing industry has altered dramatically over the last three years as mergers and acquisitions has diminished the number of competitors. After the consolidation of the industry‚ Scientific Games and IGT rose to the top of the food chain and became the leading competitors of Aristocrat (1). Based on industry news‚ one significant competitive advantage that Aristocrat holds over the key players is the ability to not implement cost cutting measures like IGT and Scientific
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Organizational Strategies In this assignment‚ I must assume that I am shopping for a laptop computer. I need to shop an Internet site and classify the laptops that I find on their site into three or four categories. Then I need to select one category and find three laptops that fit that category. Then I need partition each of these laptops using three or four different features that are important to me. I need to list the categories of the laptops that I created and the features of the laptops
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analysis on Hewlett Packard (www.hp.com)‚ a Fortune 500 company. Hewlett Packard marketing and distribution businesses compete in both regulated and competitive markets. Hewlett Packard provides both desktop and notebook computers‚ and computer accessories safely and reliably to their customers while acting in the interest of their communities‚ employees‚ shareholders and the environment. Although HP is not the only computer technology producing company on the market today‚ Hewlett Packard has a diverse
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Rackable Systems (SGI) was founded in 1999 as a specialist server company. At that time‚ all the other server making companies used the latest and best high technology chips or software which they bought from ADM or Microsoft to complete their own servers‚ and then they can provide customers services. SGI wanted to find a new way that they could enter the market without competition‚ and based on its unique server which meet customer needs better than its competitors and offer customers maximum flexibility
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