BA 569: Advanced Strategic Management Case Write-ups—Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the KittyHawk(A) Two years after launching the Kittyhawk in mid-1992‚ Rick Seymour‚ the Kittyhawk project leader‚ was facing a dilemma to continue the project with the three possible options or to recommend to abandon this project. Due to the comparatively small market share in disk-drive market‚ Bruce Spenner‚ the general manager of the Disk Memory Division‚ decided to enlarge Hewlett-Packard’s market share by
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HP-UPS: The main cost difference in two scenarios should be the following: Cost Without UPS With UPS Inventory High Low Trans-shipment Low High Exchange rate impact Low High Interest Impact High Low Base material cost Low High Lost sales High Low Obsolescence High Low If the costs increase in transshipment‚ exchange rate and base material cost is more than that reduced through inventory reduction(combined should have less variation than separate individual)‚ interest
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Business Management and Entrepreneurship Sales Management ECB 20503 Case Study: The Valley Winery PREPARED BY: FARA ASHIKIN BT GHAZALI 62283313167 PREPARED FOR: DR. MOHD FARID SHAMSUDIN 1) What are the problem facing Pat Waller? Pat Waller is the one who recently hired as sales manager of the San Francisco region’s chain division. The major problems facing by him are high turnover and continue with sales increase. According to the case‚ on average a sales representative had been with the San
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QUESTION (C) Critically evaluate the communication channels of HP. Which advantages and disadvantages can you point out? Effective communication is vital to an organization because through this people clarify their expectations and coordinate work which allows them to achieve organizational objectives more effectively.(Mc Shane/Von Glinow‚ Organizational Behavior‚ fifth edition‚ 2010‚ Mc Graw-Hill‚ page 270) As for the communication channels‚ there are two types: verbal and nonverbal .Verbal
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UPS and HP: Value Creation through Supply Chain Partnerships Executive Summary United Parcel Service (UPS) and Hewlett Packard (HP)‚ both global leaders in their industries‚ strategically aligned themselves to capitalize on their ability to competitively provide superior services to their customers. UPS‚ a global distribution company and HP an information technology firm signed a contract solidifying a three year partnership in the early
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Examination Paper: Sales Management IIBM Institute of Business Management 1 IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper MM.100 Sales and Distribution Management Section A: Objective Type (30 marks) This section consists of Multiple Choice questions & short notes type questions. Answer all the questions. Part one questions carry 1 mark each & Part Two questions carry 5 marks each. Part One: Multiple Choices: 1. Out of the following which gap arise when the sales force does not have
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Case analysis: Sales Force Training at Arrow Electronics Executive Summary – This case focuses on the training given to the fresh‚ out- of- college sales people at Arrow Electronics and the reasons on why the training programme failed to have the intended effect. Arrow Electronics was the first distributing company to recruit college graduates as a part of their sales force. To bring them up to the skill level required by field sales representatives‚ an elaborate training programme was
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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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1. Discuss the three most serious problems you have identified in the case. Defend why you think they are the most serious. The most serious problems I identified in the case would be the lack of management‚ the structure of management and the reward system. Carly Fiorina’s strategic vision had been underutilized‚ vague and no one knew if the vision was being executed. Employees within the company could not follow the company’s vision and no motivation followed with the employees. With the
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Singaporean Cultural Norms and Traditions Most of the people of Singapore are descendants of immigrants from the Malay Peninsula‚ China‚ the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka. While they have gradually acquired a distinct identity as Singaporeans‚ many still retain their customs‚ practices and festivals in a mix of the modern and the traditional. Singapore Society Singaporean society is cosmopolitan and multicultural and based on an ideology of racial and religious harmony. The family is the basic
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