...Introduction Dell Computers and IBM posed threat for HP (Hewlett Packard) and Compaq. Decision regarding whether HP should merge with Compaq or not. Carleton S Fiorina strongly in favor of merger while Walter B Hewlett, son of one of the founder member was against the merger. Certain pros and cons for HP regarding merger: Pros Cons i. Compaq¶s huge storage business i. New CEO could start fresh strategy ii. Compaq¶s Himilaya server ii. Merger will expose HP as PC popular computers, diluting its printing business iii. Deal could double the size of iii. Difficult to merge such two large HP¶s repair-business. firms Strengths and Weaknesses HP Strengths i. Imaging and printing system ii. Strong reputation for innovation and quality iii. Strong in UNIX servers. Weaknesses i. Declining growth of PC market ii. Weak in server market that has profit potential iii. Vague direction of working. Compaq Strengths i. Hardware business ii. Strong distribution channel iii. Known for information technology Weaknesses i. At time of merger, it had huge. inventory ii. Dell had strong position in online business iii. Less capable of taking orders and customizing computers Problem Faced Difficult for Fiorina to make up minds of all board members in favor of merger. Workers anger because of laying off workers and les salaries offered. Steep fall in Stock of HP after merger. Shares fall from $23.5 billion to $17.70 billion as investors...
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...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? The main takeaway from this analysis is that the macro environment was tough, especially after the 9/11 attack and the technology industry was getting increasingly competitive and ever-changing. Therefore, even though both companies had their strengths, management was aware that the same business model would not last much longer. They were both clinging from very weak businesses: HP from the imaging and printing solutions that was already threatened by other brands and was evolving into digital solutions. Compaq was relying on a PC distribution model that was already showing signs of decay, especially shown by the negative operating margins they had even though they were the leaders in the market. Clearly they both needed a profound change and understood that combining with a company with opposite strengths could be a viable solution to ensure continued growth and the needed skills to adapt their model for the future, where enterprise 2 FGV15-303: Mergers and Acquisitions Case 1: The merger between Hewlett Packard and Compaq services was developing fast (as shown by IBM resurgence) and the PC industry demanded a low-cost distribution model. 2. What are the critical resources at HP? And at Compaq? Does Compaq complement HP? For HP the critical resources were the...
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...management project: The HP merger with Compaq Table of content: • HP- presentation • Subject of change- Hp’s merger with Compaq • Promoters of the change and their motivation • Resisting forces • Critical mass • Trigger. Reducing resisting forces. Results • Change process-dynamics of the forces that promote change and the inertial forces • Analysis of the result. Residual stress • Conclusions HP In 1938, two Stanford graduates in electrical engineering, William Hewlett and David Packard, started their own business in a garage behind Packard’s Palo Alto home. One year later, Hewlett and Packard formalized their business into a partnership called Hewlett-Packard. HP was incorporated in 1947 and began offering stock for public trading 10 years later. Annual net revenue for the company grew from $5.5 million in 1951 to $3 billion in 1980. By 1997, annual net revenue exceeded $42 billion and HP had become the world’s second largest computer supplier. HP posted net revenue in 2009 was $115 billion, with approximately $40 billion coming from services. In 2006, the intense competition between HP and IBM tipped in HP's favor, with HP posting revenue of US$91.7 billion, compared to US$91.4 billion for IBM; the gap between the companies widened to $21 billion in 2009. In 2007, HP's revenue was $104 billion,] making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion In 2008 HP retained its global...
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...The Influence of Sale Promotion Factors on Purchase Decisions: A Case Study of Portable PCs in Thailand Rangsan Nochai 1 and Titida Nochai 2 1 Administration and Management College, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Ladkrabang, Bangkok 10520, Thailand, knrangsa@kmitl.ac.th 2 Department of Business Data Analysis, Faculty of Science and Technology, Assumption University, Hua Mak Campus, Bangkok, 10240, Thailand, titida@scitech.au.edu Abstract. The aim of this research is to investigate the sale promotion factors that impact on consumers’ purchasing decision on Portable PCs or notebooks in Thailand. This study was designed to use the survey research method and the convenience sampling technique was used in collecting the sample data. Questionnaires were distributed to qualified respondents in Commart Thailand 2011 Event at Queen Sirikit Convention Center on 17th – 20th March 2011. A total of 191 respondents were participated in this study. The data were analyzed and summarized with SPSS software and binary logistic regression analysis was used to examine which sale promotion factors that impact on consumers’ purchasing decision of Portable PC Acer and Compaq & HP. The results of this research is indicated that the sale promotion factors “Offer member card for discount” , “Extend warranty period” , “Bundled with scanner” , “Billboard, radio, leaflet, and magazine”, and “Able to pay by installments” are the important factors that impact on consumers’ purchasing...
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...operation in 1939 to a present-day IT powerhouse, HP has experienced a remarkable journey .Nowadays, Hewlett-Packard is a global enterprise and especially after its merger with Compaq, the company became world’s biggest computer hardware and peripherals consort in the world and has ranked 20th in the Fortune 500 list in 2009. This led to general revenues of $118.4 billion, HP announced the acquisition of 3Com with the deal closing on April 12, 2010. On April 28, 2010, HP announced the buyout of Palm for $1.2 billion. On September 2, 2010 won its bidding war for 3PAR with a $33 a share offer ($2.07 billion) which Dell declined to match. At HP, it is believed that diversity is a key driver of their success. Putting all their differences to work across the world is a continuous journey fueled by personal leadership from everyone in their company. HP’s aspiration is that the behaviors and actions and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of every employee in the company making this diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how HP runs its business throughout the world . HP leaders have an advantage that enables them to learn and adjust as few others can. The depth, and vitality that come alive on a daily basis through the firm’s values “the HP way” are assets from which most of the silicon Valley continues to learn. Their general managers regularly discuss and assess the vitality of the HP way, a process , which inevitably results in corrective...
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...Assignment # 2 – Chapter 14 Case – “Hewitt-Packard Company” 1. Discuss the three most serious problems you have identified in the case. Defend why you think they are the most serious. When Mark Hurd, the new CEO, took over, he found matrix structures ambiguous, confusing and inefficient. The main reason is that there is no clarity on the roles that each unit in the matrix is intended to play. Unit roles suppose, responsibilities and relationships in a way that is clear, but not excessively detailed and hierarchical. Although the matrix seems to be a logical organizational solution, Fiorina, has not found it an easy structure. She has struggled with ambiguous responsibilities and reporting relationships, been slowed down by the search for consensus decisions, and found it hard to get all the different units to work constructively together. In fact, CEO Carly Fiorina was so preoccupied with immediate issues that she lost sight of her ultimate objectives. Fiorina and her staff consider that the HP Way is an anachronism of a different, slower time, and that for the company to survive and succeed in the future it must be driven purely by a rational business strategy. After all of the layoffs, organizational changes, assertion of executive hierarchies and the destruction of traditional company rules of behavior, the HP Way that the old-timers are fighting to save is probably already dead. Fiorina and her team appear not to believe in the Way, they are now reduced to appealing...
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...Hp-Compaq Environment Analysis HP is one of the largest companies in the world but despite its success and multinational reach, it is still subject to forces beyond its control. Hence, in order to properly defend its empire and plan for growth, management of HP have to understand the way the external world works, where it is progressing towards and how it all affects HP. Three broad and different categories form the external environment of HP and these are the general, industry and competitor environments. The more relevant and significant aspects of each will be delved into for the purposes of this analysis. General Environment The general environment affects HP’s operating landscape as well as the markets it competes in. Attempting to strategise without understanding these forces will be disastrous to HP. HP’s presence around the globe requires a multi-ethnic workforce and this exposes it to different value systems. If HP were to impose its successful Silicon Valley mindset on a subsidiary in a different continent, it might not be able to observe the same performance from employees. Even though there are signs of increased receptiveness to American culture from other countries, a drastic change to centuries of heritage cannot be expected. Moreover, as mentioned in the case, the HP-Compaq merger will also raise organisational culture issues and it will be a complicated process in optimising synergy in two geographically large companies. The origin of HP and its future...
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...Case 1 Matching Dell Discussion Questions 1. Draw a product-market structure for Dell’s PC’s. 2. Conduct a Five Forces Analysis of the PC Industry in the late 1990’s. Is the industry structurally attractive? 3. We know that Distinctive Capabilities are apparent in a company’s activities (procedures) give a firm a competitive advantage. Enumerate these distinctive “activities” for Dell. 4. How successful have efforts to match Dell been? 5. What should the rivals do now? 5. What should the rivals do now? According to the data provided within the case we can see that with the existing models that all companies have adopted dell now only has an advantage in their inventory turnover. According to the statistics provided dell takes around 7 days to get rid of its inventory where as Compaq, IBM, HP and Gateway take 34.2, 49.4, 70.4 and 10 respectively. But the price difference between dells products and its competitors is almost nonexistent. However in trying to cut down the gap in the inventory turnover IBM and Compaq as well as the other rivals are facing problems of not being able to provide the products demanded by the consumers on time. This shows that the strategies adopted by the rivals are not properly being implemented as implemented by dell hence they are inefficient and ineffective. Hence to tackle these problems there are two strategies according to which the competition can move forward. Firstly the competitors can either work on the flaws which...
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...company’s stock price rose by 5,600%. During the same period, Dell grew twice as fast as its major rivals in the personal computer market and tripled its market share. In the first half of 1998, Dell reported operating earnings that were greater than the personal computer earnings of Compaq, Gateway, Hewlett1 Packard, and IBM combined. On Forbes magazine’s list of the richest Americans, Michael Dell, the 33-year-old founder of Dell Computer, ranked fourth with an estimated worth of $13 billion. He trailed only Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Paul Allen on the list and was worth more than Gates had 2 been at the same age. O Dell Computer had pioneered the widely publicized “Direct Model” in the personal computer (PC) industry. While competitors sold primarily through distributors, resellers, and retail sites, Dell took orders directly from customers, especially corporate customers. Once it received an order, Dell rapidly built computers to customer specifications and shipped machines directly to the customer. T The success of the Direct Model attracted the intense scrutiny of Dell’s competitors. By 1997, headlines such as “Now Everyone in PCs Wants to Be Like Mike,” “Compaq Reengineers the Channel: Will It Be Enough to Slow Dell’s Momentum?” and “In Search of Greener Pastures, Gateway 3 Moves on Dell’s Turf” peppered the PC trade press. By late 1998, virtually every major PC manufacturer had taken some step to match Dell’s approach. CO The Personal...
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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 with Compaq Computer, Inc. This temporarily slowed alliance activities between HP and Cisco. The “new HP” needed a few months to reorganize with the addition of Compaq. A few months later, in August of 2002, the alliance activities began to move forward once again. The alliance was a win-win for both HP and Cisco. Both companies were widely respected global technology companies. At the time, Bill Russell and Jim Heal of HP and Steven Steinhilber and Mike Thomas of Cisco Systems were at the forefront of the management teams responsible for forging a stronger, more formal alliance between the two companies. The original mission of the alliance formed in 1997 was to provide co-marketing enterprise networking solutions to HP and Cisco’s join customers. Through this alliance, HP and Cisco developed and sold four joint solutions – IP telephony, service and network management, mobility/wireless, and Utility Data Center. All four of these ventures were successful. Revenues generated...
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...Venezuela Infrastructure Deployment MBA 530 Management Information Systems – Ashland University Kevin Metzger 1. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this report is to describe all the work we did to implement network infrastructure in the Venezuela offices. In summary, we will present the following: - A list of activities performed to upgrade the Venezuela offices. -The infrastructure situation after the upgrade. (This is shown by separate areas, like network, desktops, printers and others.) - An outline of the next actions and future issues regarding the Venezuela Offices. - A review of lessons learned (and comments to consider in future projects in Venezuela.) 2. OFFICES OVERVIEW: Lubrizol is present in Venezuela in two cities: Caracas and Valencia. In Caracas, which is the federal district of the Venezuela, there is a sales office with three computers and only a few local printer devices. Valencia is an industrial city and has a medium-sized structure that contains an administrative staff and a storage warehouse to keep products imported from other countries. In Valencia there are about ten desktops and many local printer devices. Both places have local network infrastructure implemented. Understanding the size and complexity of these environments was the first step to plan the migration project. Picture 1 shows the building of Valencia and Picture 2 shows some products in the warehouse. ...
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...TRANSFORMATION Leadership at HP | Under supervision of DR. Ahmed Farouk | | This report will present transformation process of hp corp. By discussing the following topics: Organization background, organization culture specifically “hp way”, One of the leaders who leaded the company towards a great transformation, hp before and after the transformation and finally discussing the role of the human resource in the transformation process. | | | 1/30/2012 | | CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………………………… | 03 | 2. ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND ……………………………………………………………….2.1 HP Background …………………………………………………………………………………..2.2 HP Mission Statements …………………………………………………………………………..2.2 HP Vision Statements ……………………………………………………………………………2.3 HP Workforce …………………………………………………………………………………… | 0505111212 | 3. THE RISE AND FALL OF "THE HP WAY" ……………………………...................................... 3.1 Rising the HP Way ……………………………………………………………………………….3.2 Losing the HP Way ……………………………………………………………............................ | 131316 | 4. HP SIGNIFICANT TRANSFORMATION ……………………………………………………….. 4.1 HP Before The Transformation …………………………………………………………………4.1.1 Lewis Platt ……………………………………………………………………………4.1.2 HP's Carly Fiorina: The CEO of HP …………………………………………………4.1.3 HP's Carly Fiorina: The Transformation leader ……………………………………...4.2 Hp Transformation ………………………………………………………………………………...
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...Dell Computer Corporation Dell Computer Corporation since its arrival in the computer manufacturing business has been following the “Direct Model” that has helped it to leverage its position as a leading manufacturer of PCs. When Dell entered the PC manufacturing industry there were already established competitors like IBM, HP, COMPAQ, Gateway and Apple.IBM was the pioneer with respect to technical standards in the PC industry and also had an open architecture allowing developers to build applications suitable for running on the IBM machines. The industry was rallying around the standards set by IBM and all major players in the industry had IBM clone machines except for Apple which was using alternative standards and had its own proprietary architecture. The major players had strong sales force teams and dealer networks .So the PC industry had a lot of competition and there was very less opportunity for any substantial growth in the industry. Because of presence of so many competitors in the industry price wars were common and locking in customers could only be done by providing them with a cost effective solution. Also the PC manufacturing industry had two prominent suppliers for the microprocessor (Intel) and the operating system (Microsoft) ,the two most important things required in building a PC. Even though Intel made the microprocessor available to purchasers at a standard price it rationed new products to PC makers based on the proportion of their previous purchases...
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...Homework #2 1. There are potential agency conflicts in the exchange between HP director Sam Ginn and McKinsey experts. McKinsey consultants wanted the merger between HP and Compaq to occur because they might have been able to collect higher fees. Therefore, they immediately squashed any doubts and gave advice for the merger to happen, even if carrying out such an acquisition would have destroyed value for HP shareholders. 2. For Patricia Dunn, the past successful consolidation mergers are vulnerable but overcome key challenges in the first two years. She believes that the merger between HP and Compaq will ultimately help her company. The cost savings mentioned by McKinsey consultants provides confirming evidence in support of Patricia Dunn’s views and HP’s acquisition of Compaq. She responds positively because McKinsey consultants reaffirm her decision. 3. The technique that HP executives used is not the same or comparable to traditional discounted cash flow analyses. Two years from now, HP expects to save $1.5 billion after tax every year into perpetuity. If HP discounted those savings at 5%, then the present value of those savings would be $30 billion in Year 1, and $28.57 in current dollars (still discounted at 5%). HP executives valued the $1.5 billion in after tax cost savings as incremental earnings that extend into perpetuity. Since HP’s P/E ratio at the time was about 20, they valued the incremental earnings stream by multiplying the $1...
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