Question 1 Using a SWOT analysis‚ identify the key strategic fits between the two companies. What are the most important expected synergies? Strength Weakness Ability to serve customers at lower cost Compaq was a significant player in enterprise systems and HP in IT services business Wider spectrum of products for its clients through the merger Strong brand recognition‚ something that takes time to build Highly complimentary R&D Overlapping management Overlapping product
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New HP Hardware‚ Software‚ Services‚ and Printing n late 1995‚ John Peter‚ a marketing manager of Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific Limited‚ was evaluating the division’s strategic options for doing business in Vietnam. The United States had lifted its embargo on Vietnam in February 1994‚ and the country had normalized relationships with many other countries‚ including China. The current economic development in Vietnam is rather slow and limited‚ and the infrastructures and the political-legal systems
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how it met or did not meet basic duties. He did not fulfill his duties to the company. The board directors let a few influence their decisions. They did not take their decisions based solely on what was best for the company and their shareholders. It became a war between board members for control. 2. What different perspectives on the role of the board are revealed in this story? The role of the board is to balance‚ mediate‚ and reconcile the competing powers and interests of owners and managers
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5. Were the changes initiated by Fiorina justified? At the time when Fiorina took over HP‚ she faced many problems‚ for instance stagnating technology‚ losing market share to competitors. Many expected her to help the company. She made many changes on structure and policies of the company. Although the overall outcomes of her changes are not as good as expected‚ the changes initiated by her were still justified because the situation of the company drove her focus more on outcome than people. One
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HP provides people with opportunities to learn essential business and IT skills‚ empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs to succeed in a global economy. For example‚ HP LIFE e-Learning uses HP’s innovative cloud-based technology‚ enabling millions of entrepreneurs and students to establish and grow their own businesses‚ create jobs‚ and help communities thrive. They extend the reach of HP LIFE e-Learning with partners such as the Education Development Center Inc.‚ United Nations Industrial
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What are the challenges facing Jim Heal and Mike Thomas? Jim Heal of Hewlett-Packard‚ Inc (HP) and Mike Thomas of Cisco Systems‚ Inc (Cisco) were both leaders of strategic alliance management teams that were formed in early 1997. Both teams were created to help facilitate the strategic alliance that was formed between HP and Cisco. As with all alliances‚ a wide variety of issues and challenges emerged that had be to be resolved and it was the purpose of the alliance teams to solve such issues
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networking products and resources‚ consulting and integration services and software‚ as well as personal computing and related access devices‚ imaging and printing related products and services. The usage of notebook in recent years increases tremendously. HP focuses on their research and development of notebook in such a way that certain types of notebooks are specifically programmed and designed for professional use whereas some other type of notebooks are specifically programmed for personal use. Place
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successful. HP – Compaq Case – As the PC‚ printing and services related to this and IT were changing fast because of customers and enterprise’s increased expectation from the manufacturer and service providers. The industry saw the biggest change from 1990 to 2000. In this period Dell became leader in PC space mainly using the the make to order concept and then dealing directly through their web site with the customers. And IBM was leader in high end high growth service related space. HP on the
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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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