1) In summer 1998‚ what is the position of the Enterprise Server Group (ESG) in its industry? How has it evolved? Why? HP‚ an international manufacturer of instrumentation‚ healthcare‚ computer and communication products‚ started up with initial investment of only $538 in the year 1939.It grew to more than $43B in sales and $3.1B in net profits in 1997.In 1997‚ HP formed Enterprise Server Group to focus on enterprise computing. ESG’s products
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Introduction Hewlett-Packard is currently a successful company operating within the computer and printer industry. In addition to its huge market coverage‚ HP has also been earning billions of dollars through quality products and ingenious development of new technologies. Despite this success‚ the increasing competition in the industry encourages the company to apply new marketing strategies that will position its products better in the market. One of the possible solutions for this
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Do you support Fiorina’s proposal to acquire Compaq? What are the pros and cons? Yes‚ We Support Fiorina’s Proposal to acquire Compaq in view of the following Merits: The merger would enable both companies to achieve economies of scale and increased market share thereby enabling them to compete with market leader i.e Dell Leadership in key Markets: HP and Compaq both had some core strength areas such as Industry standard servers made by Compaq and HP’s strength in high end servers would make
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Executive Summery Hewlett-Packard is trying to keep an edge against its competition by having extraordinary customer service. HP can better reach one of its target markets targeting college students by focusing on the parents who buy their college children printers. Three changes to HP printers are needed to better serve this niche and maintain Hewlett-Packard’s competitive edge against competitors such as Canon. The first is to make the ink more affordable‚ the second is to eliminate unneeded
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2. What do you think of the way the team set out to find a market for the Kittyhawk? What correct turns and what wrong turns did they make? When setting out to find a market for Kittyhawk‚ there were several correct and incorrect decisions that the DMD division made that greatly affected their product and its future effectiveness. They initially went about it the right way by researching the electronics industry and the several companies within the industry that might want their new product. They
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Hewlett Packard Company in Vietnam Case Summary John Peter‚ a Marketing Manager of Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific (HPAP) was evaluating HPAP’s long-term strategic investment options for doing business in Vietnam. Before start up business in Vietnam‚ John needs to know the current business environment in Vietnam. History‚ Economic and Politic Environment are important to know about the country whether is stable from others control. Current workforce is important to find the skillful employee when
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Case Analysis Hewlett-Packard-Compaq :The Merger decision Group no 3 Ninad Nigam Vivek Sharma 16 31 Abstract Of case The spirit of Case is primarily based on the issues related with potential acquisition of Compaq by HP. Case tells about circumstances of computer hardware industry at 2001‚market was highly competitive‚ frequent and fast product introduction in market ‚continuous improvements in product/price characteristics market needs quick customization in products and service
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from their customer service center and key business trends‚ they turned to SAS Text Miner to create a hybrid mining system that utilized structured and unstructured data sets. Text analysis is difficult because you have to quantify text as well as deal with other challenges such as dimensionality and data dispersal. The real challenge for HP was combining structured data with unstructured data. HP was able to utilize SAS Text Miner’s technique called singular value decomposition. Furthermore
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Global Executive MBA – FGV (2015) Course 303: Mergers and Acquisitions Professor: Hsia Hua Sheng Department: Accounting‚ Finance and Controls‚ Module: 3/2015 Assignment # 1 The merger between Hewlett Packard and Compaq Local Team 2 Mark Hollenstein Andre Nadjarian Glasson Fonseca Patricio Ducó Jan 8th ‚ 2014 1. What would a SWOT analysis of HP and Compaq reveal? Hewlett Packard Compaq The main takeaway from this analysis is that the macro environment was tough‚ especially
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1. In summer 1998‚ what is the position of the Enterprise Server Group (ESG) in its industry? How has it evolved? Why? The ESG should be the core part in the industry in summer 1998. In 1997‚ HP put attention on enterprise computing through the formation of the Enterprise systems Group(ESG). ESG’s products were built based on proprietary RISC microprocessors and proprietary UNIX operating systems. However‚ as the Merced chip was developed‚ independent software vendors were afraid that
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