- Partnership as part of the overall strategy - Both companies must continue to improve the efficiency of existing supply chain operations‚ exploring process innovations that might be strategically advantageous to HP - ?Increasing efficiency of existing processes and not discovering more effective alternatives will be counterproductive over time. - Concerns the partnership will hit a brick wall in the near future - How much more efficient can they become on the current practice? - Colaluca wanted:
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2. HP SWOT Analysis Strengths: Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a global provider of personal systems‚ imaging and printing products‚ and technology solutions. It is the largest player in the inkjet and laser printer market. HP is also one of the market leaders in the global PC market. The one strength that I feel is important is that HP has a very strong distribution channel globally. Weaknesses: HP uses the Windows platform in all its I-PAQ phones. Incidentally‚ I-PAQ phones have been much criticized
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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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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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Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to analyze and evaluate opportunities and threats in the North-American environment of HP. This report is written to provide Hewlett-Packard with a clear view of external factors which influence the company and how they should react on those factors. The method that is used for gathering information is desk research; internet‚ books‚ articles and Avans databanks. A limitation that occurred was finding the gross domestic product of North-America. To
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MBA 533 Advanced Operations Management Fall‚ 2010 Case: Hewlett-Packard: DeskJet Printer Supply Chain A and B What are the pros and cons of the following proposals mentioned in the A case: a European factory‚ better forecasting‚ more inventory. • European factory Pros: (1) Shorter delivery time‚ which means less pipe line inventory‚ less inventory cost. (2) Faster response to market requirement. Cons: (1) Need to build another
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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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Strategic Plan of Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard’s operations are organized into seven segments: Services‚ Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS)‚ HP Software‚ the Personal Systems Group (PSG)‚ the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG)‚ HP Financial Services (HPFS)‚ and Corporate Investments. Services‚ ESS and HP Software are reported collectively as a broader HP Enterprise Business. In April 2010‚ the Company completed its acquisition of 3Com Corporation. In July 2010‚ the Company completed the acquisition
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what way is a universal power supply a postponement strategy? It allows HP to postpone (product standardization‚ postponement) the allocation of laser printers (or specification of printer engine) to specific regions by about two months. Thus‚ in these two months the decisions can be made based on the aggregate demand forecast (US & Europe) in all regions. Production team believes universal power supply can enable HP to better respond to regional demand (US & Europe) and reduce its inventory
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matter large or small‚ have to make internal changes in order to adjust to the external environment. Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)‚ a large and remarkable information technology corporation‚ like all other businesses‚ has been changing throughout its existing and has been fighting for the goal of establishing a sustainable market year by year. Based on the interest of working at HP after graduation‚ plenty of researches are done in terms of HP’s history‚ strategic changes and culture. This research paper
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