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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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 and distributors. Mr. Bradley made personal
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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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November 22 Case Study HP Hewlett Packard Corporation 2007 Table of contents Introduction Existing vision‚ mission‚ objectives and strategies Proposed vision and mission Stage 1: Input Stage Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM) Stage 2: Matching Stage Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats Matrix (SWOT) Strategic Position and Action Evaluation (SPACE) Boston Consulting Group Matrix (BCG) Internal-
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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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Organizational Change: HP Dyniecia Barnes Keller Graduate School of Management HR587 Managing Organizational Change Prof. Alberta Lloyd Aug 21‚ 2011 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Assessment/Diagnosis 4 Analysis of the Change Strategy 4 Results/Outcomes 6 Evaluation of the Effort 8 Conclusion 9 References 11 Executive Summary Assessment/Diagnosis HP is the world’s largest technology company. Their area of expertise and services range from printing‚ personal computer
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HP Slogan: “Everybody On” — the new HP slogan. “Seamless‚ secure‚ context-aware experiences for a connected world.” "What you care about‚ we care about" Segment Home (19) HP ENVY 4-1000 Notebook PC series HP ENVY Ultrabook 4-1000 HP Spectre XT Ultrabook 13-2000 Ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C50hcfYCo58&feature=related HP ENVY 6-1000 Notebook PC series HP Pavilion dv4-5100 Entertainment Notebook PC series HP ENVY Sleekbook 4-1000 HP ENVY 15-3200 Notebook PC series HP Pavilion
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The Hewlett Packard Company (HP) is a leading American technology company. HP was established by William Hewlett and David Packard in 1939; Operations were organized and set up in Palo Alto California as an up and coming IT and computing Systems Company. As the largest IT Company with revenues totaling $127.2 billion‚ in 2011 HP ranked #11 as a Fortune 500 company and established itself as the leading high technology company in America (HP Annual Report). The organizational structure can be divided
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Hewlett-Packard | HP – Compaq merger | M&A‚ Finance and Investments‚ MSc. | 29th November‚ 2012 | | | | Authors: Marjan van Lieshout 348050 Bram Piederiet 322688 Jamie Romeo 319954 Patrice Temming 351185 Authors: Marjan van Lieshout 348050 Bram Piederiet 322688 Jamie Romeo 319954 Patrice Temming 351185 1. Executive summary In the spring of 2002‚ Hewlett-Packard Co (‘HP’ from here on) obtained all of the outstanding common shares of Compaq Computer Corp (‘CC’
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