...Food Giant Standardizes on HP for Infrastructure of Champions HP success story One of the largest food companies in the world, General Mills has one of the lowest IT spends per revenue dollar in the consumer packaged goods manufacturing industry. The company, which has long pursued a strategy of IT standardization and consolidation, operates its entire global enterprise on HP systems — from the HP Integrity servers that run its SAP ERP and Business Information Warehouse, to the HP iPAQ Pocket PCs used by its retail salesforce. In addition to cost savings, the simplified infrastructure has enabled quick response to business change — most notably when General Mills acquired Pillsbury, a company of near equal size, and integrated it into its infrastructure in just 16 months. General Mills markets 100 of the world’s best-loved food brands, including Betty Crocker, Haagen-Dazs, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Old El Paso, Wheaties and Cheerios. It holds the No.1 or No.2 market position in virtually every category in which it competes. It also relies on a single vendor for its IT systems worldwide: HP. “We think that we’re extremely different in the way that we manage information systems at General Mills,” says Vandy Johnson, senior director of I.S. Operations, who oversees the $12.3 billion - dollar company’s business warehouse, data management, telecom, network, I.S. security, data center, and server and web infrastructure operations. General Mills operates the core of its business...
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...& Scanner Innovations (HP) 2011 Print from places you seldom thought possible Products like the HP Officejet Pro K8600 e-All-in-One (AIO) printer connect to the Internet, enabling key benefits such as ePrint—letting you print from virtually anywhere with a web connection by emailing the printer’s unique email address. Another benefit of web-enabled printing is print apps, which allow you to enjoy instant access to printable web content from your printer’s control panel. The ePrintCenter feature on the HP Officejet Pro K8600 lets you view printer status, add or remove print apps, use a host printer’s apps, and manage ePrint settings remotely and through any web browser. [pic] Scan more than just flat objects Scanners have traditionally been used primarily as a tool for scanning photographs and the document management, but the evolution of technology has opened the door to many new and exciting possibilities. The HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 is HP’s first web-connected color laser multifunction printer with the power to scan 3D objects, which can be used to create unique artwork and presentations. In addition to 3D objects, converting your paper documents into electronic form allows you to store, share, and use them more effectively. Considering document management with scanners like the HP Scanjet 5590 is just smart business. | |HP Officejet Pro 8600 |HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus |HP Officejet Pro 8600 Premium...
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...HP Photosmart 5510 Series User Manual M. Raquel Medina ENG/221 August 14, 2012 Gregory Bontz Recently purchased, by the writer, was an HP All-in-One printer, scanner, and copier, the HP Photosmart 5510 series. A manual was provided in the boxed package but can also be viewed online at http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02983578.pdf. The manual provides simplicity, clarity, attractiveness, organization and graphical illustrations. It is a well written instructional manual for users of any technical level, although the length of the document is a little too long. According to Don Norman, “People do not want to read manuals — they want to do their activity. Help them get right to work, with minimum reading” (Norman, 2012). At times a reader can become confused and frustrated with a user manual that is too big. Keeping the manual clear and simple is important. Simplicity • Positive: The HP Photosmart 5510 series user manual is made simple because of the shortness in its index. There are only nine major topics that are covered in the manual but these nine are the key points to operating the device. The manual has each topic linked to the page so a simple point and click gets you to the information needed. • Negative: The Technical Information portion of this manual was not easy to follow. Although, technical information is not the easiest to make simple. Clarity • Positive: Clarity is important when reading a user manual because your...
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...HP Universal CMDB Software Version: UCMDB 10.10, CP 13.00 Universal Discovery Content Guide - HP Integrations Document Release Date: November 2013 Software Release Date: November 2013 Legal Notices Warranty The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Restricted Rights Legend Confidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12.211 and 12.212, Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. Copyright Notice © Copyright 1996 - 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Trademark Notices Adobe® and Acrobat® are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. AMD and the AMD Arrow symbol are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Google™ and Google Maps™ are trademarks of Google Inc. Intel®, Itanium®, Pentium®, and Intel® Xeon® are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Java and Oracle are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Microsoft®, Windows®, Windows NT®, Windows® XP, and Windows...
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...professions and four computers. For the computers, I have chosen the Dell Inspiron Desk Top, the Hp Pavilion Slimline desk top, the Toshiba Satellite Laptop and the Hp Envy laptop. I have chosen author, educator and lawyer as my profession. I will pair the appropriate computer with its profession. An author may seem like they would not need much in the way of computers. Often times they do not even use computers to write, but instead prefer pen and paper. However, the work will have to put into a computer sooner or later. An author probably would not be in need for very much space. Their work will most likely be stored on portable storage devices so that they can transport it agencies. Because of this, I think that a suitable computer for an author would be the Toshiba Satellite laptop. It has memory and hard drive space, just not a lot. It is cheap and would serve its purpose for the author perfectly without having the extra features. Teachers and instructors have a little more of need for space. Again, however, they don’t need a lot. They would have to save their lectures and all their classwork saved on their computers as well as the students’ grades. All of this would indeed take up space, but not enough to warrant the extra money for the memory and hard drive. They would do just fine with the standard amount of space. For this reason, I suggest either the Dell Inspiron desk top or the Hp Envy series laptop. These...
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...WAN to tie all three KFF locations together. Make the internal network configuration in each store a WLAN, and add VOIP to the multi-store network. * Define which store will house the central servers. * Design the network to be expandable beyond the existing stores. The current specifics of the setup is as follows. La Jolla Store : 100baseT environment, IBM Blade System C3000 running UNIX, Corporate SAP ERP SW, 10 TB NAS Backup, 5KVA APD UPS for power backup, Retail Operations entail NCR RealPOS 82XRT POS Terminals, Management 19 Dell Vostro Computers and 3 HP networked Printers. 2 Cisco routers and firewalls, Inter-store Network, 25 mb Ethernet. 19 VOIP Phones Del Mar/Encinitas Store : 100baseT environment, IBM Blade System C3000 running UNIX, 10 TB NAS Backup, 5KVA APD UPS for power backup, Retail Operations entail NCR RealPOS 82XRT POS Terminals, Management 6 Dell Vostro Computers and 1 HP Laserjet Printers. 2 Cisco routers and firewalls, Inter-store Network, 25 mb Ethernet. 6 VOIP phones per store. La Jolla Diagram : Del Mar, Encinitas Stores (same set up) I find no current issues with the hardware, although I do believe software can be a small issue. The corporate SAP ERP SW software, should be available to the management at the other three stores as well. The standards that would apply to this system and the next system will of course be IEEE 802x depending on if the company has or will invest in developing their own standards. For the purpose of...
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...light at the end of the tunnel. HP has gone through 4 CEOs in 8 years which has caused changes in environment, culture, and the trust of stockholders and investors. However, current CEO Meg Whitman has a positive outlook. In the last year since her start with HP, she has implemented a four year restructuring plan. The restructuring plan will be discussed in detail in this paper as it is a vital part of Hewlett-Packards situation financially and in the Market. When the economy is in a recession, all industries suffer. For a company like HP, the down market mixed with the increasing rate of technological advances, it is a double hit. HP has been the leader in PC manufacturing for over 70 years and is still one of the top in the industry. The future of HP looks promising. Faith in HP has been shaken over the last 5 years but with Meg Whitman on board, her experience and knowledge will be a much needed change for the company. In this paper, the strategic innovations for a changing market will be discussed in detail with what HP has in store for its future and how the company will rise in hard times. Also discussed will be the tactics that have already been put in place by HP including new products that will, in hopes, positively change their image. Human Resource Management and its role in meeting strategic goals will be described and if investing in HP as a mutual funds manager would be beneficial. The goal of this paper is to analyze HP and their business processes and how...
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...QUICK TEST PROFESSIONAL 11 Table of Contents 1 Session 1 INTRODUCTION TO QTP 9.5 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Add-ins in 9.5 3 1.3 Use of Addins 3 1.4 Add-in Manager 4 1.5 Benefits of Automated Testing: 4 1.6 The 7 phases of QTP 5 1.6.1 Preparing to record 5 1.6.2 Recording a session on your application 5 1.6.3 Enhancing your test 6 1.6.4 Debugging your test 6 1.6.5 Running your test 6 1.6.6 Analysing the test results 6 1.6.7 Reporting defects 6 1.7 QTP Main Window 7 2 Recording Modes and Run Modes 11 2.1 Major steps before scripting 11 2.2 Exercise 11 2.3 Recording Modes 12 2.3.1 Normal 12 2.3.2 Analog 12 2.3.3 Low Level 14 2.4 Run Modes / Execution Modes / Playback Modes 15 2.4.1 Run Mode 15 2.4.2 Maintenance Run Mode 15 2.4.3 Update Mode 16 3 Session 3 17 3.1 Introduction 17 3.2 Object Repository Types 17 3.2.1 Local Object Repository 17 3.2.2 Shared Object Repository 18 3.2.3 How to associate Shared Repository 19 3.3 Object Repository Window 19 3.4 Exporting Local Objects to an Object Repository 20 3.5 Managing Shared Object Repository Associations: 20 3.6 Object Repository Manager 21 3.6.1 Performing Merge Operations 22 4 Section 4: SYNCHRONISING YOUR TEST 25 4.1 Synchronisation Options 25 4.1.1 Modifying Timeout Values 25 4.1.2 Adding Exist and Wait Statements 25 4.1.3 Creating Synchronisation Points 25 4.2 Exercise 26 4.2.1 Using Wait statement...
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...major premise of the Teams initiative? I have been assigned to research company personnel needed to be included in the planning, implementing, sustaining the change and why? A strong leader with a vision, plans, and surrounded by a team of individuals that believe in the vision and trust the leader can effect change. The leader is very important to the major premise of the team initiative because without a leader the team will not have direction. This is like steering a ship without its captain. For our capstone case on Hewlett Packard, I selected the best leader available to lead Hewlett Packard through this change and surrounded her with individuals with impeccable credentials to lead the charge for change during this challenging time at HP. Meg Whitman, President and Chief Executive Officer comes to her new position with a wealth of knowledge and experience. From March to September 2011, Ms. Whitman served as...
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...I chose Zips, a company for portable wine containers. The initial offer from the pitch was a 2.5 million dollar investment for 10% equity stake in the company. The Zips business is the best solution to drinking wine on the go. I chose this product because I was very impressed with the offer and the backup that the presenter had. Zips is going to be a successful company simply in the utility of the product. Many people who want to have wine somewhere have the problem of having a nice way of drinking it. The consumable product itself is sellable and generally a high-class commodity. People who buy wine have money so the target audience is profitable. What I am very impressed with is the mobility of the product. The holistic utility of the product is mainly in its mobility. Not only can you take it anywhere but also the glasses are extremely strong. The presenter even stood on top of his class product and it didn’t break. Keep in mind this is a only a glass to hold wine. Secondly the twist on cap that can attach to the bottom is a well thought idea that greatly increases the mobility. I think that the patent that the company has is a valuable one. Selling the company’s own wine might not be the best idea however if they sell the packaging license to a huge company that either distributes or bottles wine, the company could be sold for a lot of money. Just the idea behind the franchise is valuable in itself. Yes, it isn’t as good as having an actual wine glass...
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...shark tank assignment #1 by Cristian Pacheco 1. Select an episode of “Shark Tank” and watch the episode. You may watch an episode that has aired for this year, or you may watch an upcoming episode. Answer: The episode I watched is the number 305 Air Date: Friday, March 09, 2012 . 2. You are to select one of the segments, which is funded by the Sharks to research. Answer: In the second segment of the show, four entrepreneurs the Nardo’s brothers Dj Nardo, Kyle Nardo, Danny Nardo and Kj Nardo bring up their company “Nardo’s Natural” to the Shark Tank looking for help because the demand they had for the product was more then what they could produced they needed it $75.000.00 and they were offering 25% of their company in exchange, until Barbara Corcoran made an offer of $75.000.00 for 50% of the company, the brothers accepted the offer so Barbara become part of the company. 3. You are to visit the company web site and look for answers to any of the following questions: a. Does the company mention on their site the show “Shark Tank”. b. What type of sales or distribution does the company have? c. Will the funding from Shark Tank help the company grow? Answer: (A) In the web-side for this company www.nardosnatural.com the show is mention as a opportunity of a business to star or grow, they have offers related to the TV show but the don’t mention how much money they gain...
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...SHARK TANK WOULD YOU INVEST INTO THE COMPANY?? GO TO WWW.YOUTUBE.COM THEN TYPE IN “SHARK TANK” WATCH ANY EPISODE THEN JOIN IN WITH YOUR BRIEF SUMMARY AS TO WHAT YOU WATCHED AND YOUR THOUGHTS. TRY GOING TO SOME OF THE EPISODES YOUR CLASSMATES WERE ON THEN COME BACK TO THE DISCUSSION AND POST YOUR COMMENTS. I picked the episode on Daisy Cakes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVM-RuLh2KI Kim Nelson from Spartanburg, South Carolina made her appearance on Shark Tank asking for $50,000 for 25% equity of her company. Daisy cakes features old family recipes (from her grandmother and great aunt Daisy) of homemade cakes made from scratch with no preservatives, made by Kim and her mother in their commercial kitchen, packaged in a cake tin, dry ice packed and shipped nationwide. Daisy cakes are made with hand sifted flour, farm fresh eggs and every cake is hand iced with homemade icing. The Nelson family has invested $93,000 to date with a $27,000 return in a 3 month window October through December of the previous year after attending only 3 trade shows. Each cake costs approximately $18 to make, while charging an average of $44.50 per cake plus delivery expenses. Kim hands out samples of her cakes to each of the 5 “sharks” all rave and state that it is the best cake they have ever tasted. All of the male “sharks” drop out stating that the business was to small to invest in. The remaining “shark” Barbra Corcoran offers Kim the $50,000 under two conditions: 1 For each cake...
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...THE APPLICATION OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT THEORY TO HR PORTAL IMPLEMENTATION IN SUBSIDIARIES OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS Cataldo Dino Ruta HR portals are complex information technology (IT) applications that can be accessed by all employees of a given organization. By placing more applications and information online, HR portals reduce the reliance employees have on HR personnel. Given this relational change, from human to computer, the HR portal implementation process must take into account the challenges of both change management and technology acceptance. By integrating change management theories with IT user acceptance models, this article adds to HR’s collective knowledge of ways to effectively implement HR portals. In addition, this article describes the cross-national challenges that exist when a global firm attempts to implement an HR portal around the world. Thus, this article will present a model that (1) integrates change management theories and IT user acceptance models and (2) illustrates the ways in which change management plans may need to be adapted to be effective in various subsidiaries. A case study of Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) worldwide implementation of their @HP Employee Portal in the Italian subsidiary of HP illustrates the key issues of these theories. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Introduction Human Resources Portal Applications In recent years, the World Wide Web has revolutionized the way individuals in organizations access information. In addition...
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...THE APPLICATION OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT THEORY TO HR PORTAL IMPLEMENTATION IN SUBSIDIARIES OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS Cataldo Dino Ruta HR portals are complex information technology (IT) applications that can be accessed by all employees of a given organization. By placing more applications and information online, HR portals reduce the reliance employees have on HR personnel. Given this relational change, from human to computer, the HR portal implementation process must take into account the challenges of both change management and technology acceptance. By integrating change management theories with IT user acceptance models, this article adds to HR’s collective knowledge of ways to effectively implement HR portals. In addition, this article describes the cross-national challenges that exist when a global firm attempts to implement an HR portal around the world. Thus, this article will present a model that (1) integrates change management theories and IT user acceptance models and (2) illustrates the ways in which change management plans may need to be adapted to be effective in various subsidiaries. A case study of Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) worldwide implementation of their @HP Employee Portal in the Italian subsidiary of HP illustrates the key issues of these theories. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Introduction Human Resources Portal Applications In recent years, the World Wide Web has revolutionized the way individuals in organizations access information. In addition...
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...1) ‘HP Way ‘is a set of primary values that define how workforce and the company are to perform. These values have become the foundation of the “HP Way”. It is an objective-oriented philosophy, where each constituency can share the same principles and work toward a common goal. The primary values of the HP Way are trust and respect for individuals; high level of achievement and contribution; conducting business with uncompromising integrity; common objectives through teamwork; innovation and flexibility. The company’s founder put focus not only on to make creative products but also to create supportive corporate culture. The Company has many personnel policies and internal structures which support these values and each policy complement and support each other. The activities of HP employees are guided by a comprehensive system of management by objectives (MBO). The greatest advantage of MBO is that objectives are goals, not specific tasks handed out by management. Goals can be achieved in multiple ways and it is expected from employees to find their own best ways to meet these goals. Job autonomy encourages creativity in the workplace and increase the sense of accountability to employees. From the beginning HP instituted participative management style to foster teamwork, trust, openness and cooperation. Teamwork is practiced within divisions between R & D, manufacturing, marketing, and finance. Through participative decision-making HP is...
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