HEWLETT-PACKARD GRIFFIN CONSULTING GROUP Jason Blauvelt Paul Ciasullo Owen Hawkins Sunday, April 15, 2012 CONTENTS Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................... 4 History ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard .......................................................
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Name Industries served Geographic areas served Headquarters Current CEO Revenue Profit Employees Hewlett-Packard Company Computer hardware and software, IT services and consulting Worldwide US Meg Whitman $ 120.357 billion (2012) $ -12.650 billion (2012) 331,800 (2012) Apple Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Dell Inc., Fujitsu Limited, International Business Machines Corporation, Lenovo Group Limited, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Corporation and many others
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From the mid 1970’s the structure of the PC industry had experienced a huge growth and changed dramatically. In 2001, 40% of the PC shipments were accounted by the top four PC vendors namely: Dell, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and IBM. Dell, a direct-sales pioneer, grew exponentially in the 1990s and emerged as the worldwide market leader in 2001. During 2001-2002 it was the most profitable among the market leaders. Compaq came up with a full range of PCs ranging between $1,000 and $10,000. Whereas
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habits of companies of enduring greatness. In the words of the authors, “Visionary companies are premier institutions – the crown jewels – in their industries, widely admired by their peers, and having a long track record of making a significant impact on the world around them.” Visionary leaders and breakthrough ideas come and go, but visionary companies survive the transitions. The “successful habits” of the visionary companies were observed in comparison to “silver medalist” companies in the
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Case Overview The Hewlett-Packard Managers from each department had a meeting to discuss about whether using a universal power supply for the next generation of network laser printer called “Rainbow” is beneficial or not. They have the authority to make the decision while strong justification should be provided to defend their proposal. HP is developing its new generation network printer while it has been struggling from 3 main issues – The power specification for the printer is different in
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Introduction and Company background The purpose of this case study is to analyze the new product scenario and provide a written report. Dell Computers was founded by Michael Dell in 1984 and has its head offices in Round Rock, Texas. (Benedetto, 2012, p. 165) Michael Dell has a very simply philosophy, selling computer systems directly to customers, Dell could best understand their needs and efficiently provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. This direct business
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order to be outstanding in the fierce competition, every company should take appropriate measures. Business strategy should be right instituted and implemented to improve the core competence of the organization. It seems that strategy of supply chain is the most important part of business strategy. The strategy of supply chain always makes contributions to reduce cost and gain best benefits. Hewlett-Packard, one of the world’s best companies, the experience of its printer division showed us successful
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appropriate. And finally recommend a different strategy for managing change in each of the one change stories presented and provide a justification for your recommended strategy. The first significant error I’d like to point out is the error Hewlett Packard made with their organization. HP failed to form a strong powerful coalition. Fiorina had urgency for the approval but I feel lost sight after the merge was approved. She struggled with the original vision after that point. Fiorina wanted success
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bien * Estudia preparatoria en California y fuera de horarios escolares toma conferencias y clases en Hewlett-Packard Company en Palo Alto CA y donde despupes conseguiría un trabajo de verano * Estudia en el Reed College en Portland, Oregon. * Amigo de Steven Wozniak desde secundaria. Compartieron su interés por la electrónica. Ambos trabajaron en Sillicon Valley (SW en Hewlett-Packard y SJ en Atari. * Reúne dinero para irse de retiro a la India y encontrarse a si mismo, se convierte
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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
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