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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SWOT Analysis Template SWOT Analysis template The SWOT Analysis tool provides a structure for analyzing the internal strengths and weaknesses of an organization‚ along with any external opportunities and threats it faces. Identifying and analyzing these four elements enables you to better understand the environmental conditions within that organization. A SWOT analysis provides an overall view of the organization‚ and the factors can be useful in diagnosing the extent and type of barriers to
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Background The attempt to launch the biggest disruptive technological change in the hard drive industry in 1992‚ was aimed to be reached according to Hewlard Packard (HP) by launching Kittyhawk- smallest hard disk ever. They realized that they had the strength of having the flexibility of entrepreneurs but financial support of a large high-tech company. The aim was to create a product that is not the same as competitors but instead revolutionary strategic insight was made by the commercial failure
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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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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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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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Strategic Analysis on HP-Disney Alliance Introduction On October 9th 2003‚ Walt Disney Company‚ an international entertainment and media enterprise‚ and global technology provider Hewlett-Packard (HP) declared a ten-year strategic alliance for the purpose of developing innovative technologies and promoting Disney consumers’ experiences. The arrangement was achieved by jointly disclosing “Mission: Space” ride‚ which had been collaboratively designed and developed by HP and Disney employees for several
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critical success factors are constantly being challenged. This calls for a constant change in competitive strategies[1-3]. Subsequently‚ organizations can no longer afford to adopt a unidirectional or step-by-step approach to strategy development which entails several stages including data collection‚ development of strategic options‚ evaluation‚ selection and implementation. In the face of a high level of uncertainty and change there is a need for a dynamic approach in which strategy formulation and implementation
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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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devices. In 1968‚ HP came up with its first minicomputer which found immediate industrial application and in 1972 it introduced a handheld calculator which sold exceedingly well‚ despite a higher price. However‚ competition forced HP to reduce its price later. All these products were not developed for the mass market but employed two different methods to determine products and markets – ask co-workers what was needed or build a machine for one customer and market it to others. In 1984‚ HP launched three
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