...Case 3. Questions we are trying to answer. 4. Actual questions and answer. 5. Class discussion About the Case: The case is about a person named Randy Mott. He is known as a rock star in IT business. He not only understood information technology systems but knew how to use them to improve business. He believed and showed it was possible that IT should not only support the business, but help to improve its efficiency and boost the bottom line. He started his career at Wal-mart and introduced the data ware house concept at Wal-Mart with which they were able to analyze buying trends. Wal-Mart was a pioneer in this as no other company had this capability. He became CIO at Dell where helped he group 100 separate systems into a single data warehouse system. Mott started at HP in order to turn HP from the bloated leviathan it had become into a lean, mean, agile organization. He took several initiatives at HP. We are going to explore the initiatives taken at HP through the questions that we are answering for this case study. Questions we are trying to answer: 1. In what ways is Randy Mott trying to change HP’s structure and the way it works? 2. In what ways has he been trying to change HP’s culture? 3. Go to the internet and find some articles on HP recent performance. How have the changes he made affected HP’s competitive advantage and performance? 1. In what ways is Randy Mott trying to change HP’s structure and the way it works? Ans: HP worked...
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...the Case 3. Questions we are trying to answer. 4. Actual questions and answer. 5. Class discussion About the Case: The case is about a person named Randy Mott. He is known as a rock star in IT business. He not only understood information technology systems but knew how to use them to improve business. He believed and showed it was possible that IT should not only support the business, but help to improve its efficiency and boost the bottom line. He started his career at Wal-mart and introduced the data ware house concept at Wal-Mart with which they were able to analyze buying trends. Wal-Mart was a pioneer in this as no other company had this capability. He became CIO at Dell where helped he group 100 separate systems into a single data warehouse system. Mott started at HP in order to turn HP from the bloated leviathan it had become into a lean, mean, agile organization. He took several initiatives at HP. We are going to explore the initiatives taken at HP through the questions that we are answering for this case study. Questions we are trying to answer: 1. In what ways is Randy Mott trying to change HP’s structure and the way it works? 2. In what ways has he been trying to change HP’s culture? 3. Go to the internet and find some articles on HP recent performance. How have the changes he made affected HP’s competitive advantage and performance? 1. In what ways is Randy Mott trying to change HP’s structure and the way it works? Ans: HP worked in...
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...News Fully answer the 3 questions below Information Technology: Stopping the Sprawl at HP When Randy Mott joined Wal-Mart fresh out of college in 1978, its in-house tech staff had only 30 members and company founder Sam Walton had not yet become a believer in the power of computing to revolutionize retailing. But Mott and his cohorts developed a network of computerized distribution centers that made it simple to open and run new stores with cookie-cutter efficiency. Then in the early 1990s, Mott, by this time chief information officer, persuaded higherups to invest in a so-called data warehouse. That let the company collect and sift customer data to analyze buying trends as no company ever had -- right down to which flavor of Pop-Tarts sells best at a given store. "Information technology wasn't Mr. Sam's favorite topic. He viewed it as a necessary evil," recalls fellow Wal-Mart Stores Inc. alumnus Charlie McMurtry, who has worked with Mott for years. "But later, Randy got [Walton's] ultimate compliment. He said, 'Man, you'd make a great store manager."' By the time Mott took his latest job last summer, as CIO of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) he had become a rock star of sorts among the corporate techie set -- an executive who not only understood technology and how it could be used to improve a business but how to deliver those benefits. Besides his 22-year stint at Wal-Mart, Mott helped Dell Inc. (DELL ) hone its already huge IT advantage. By melding nearly 100 separate systems...
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