...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 printing and imaging solution, which was at that time a high demand market...
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...AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INTRODUCTION Agilent technologies is a spin-off from Hewlett-Packard (HP). For the first three to four months after the spin-off announcement, Agilent operated as “NewCo” while the team assessed over ten thousand names for the new company. Finally they ended up with „Agilent‟ partly as a way to remind themselves every day that speed was one of their core values and it was a constant reminder to them and their employees that this was the standard that they had to hold themselves to. The company revealed the new name, logo and tagline “Innovating the HP Way”. Seven months later, on November 1, 1999, Agilent began operating as a separate stand-alone company. On November 18, 1999, Agilent launched its initial public offering, which at $2.1 billion, was Silicon Valley‟s largest IPO to date. From a small garage in Palo Alto, California, to employees around the world serving customers in 120 countries, Agilent has a long history of innovation and leadership in the communications, electronics, semiconductor, test and measurement, life sciences and chemical analysis industries. BIRTH OF AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES Agilent's foundation was laid by two entrepreneurs Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in the form of Hewlett-Packard, a company started by them to provide test and measurement equipment. HP provides products, technologies, software solutions and services to consumers, small and medium sized businesses and large enterprises, including customers in the government...
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...Michelle Abbott Professor Jon Down March 26, 2004 Written Case Analysis McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and Learning Evaluating Gupta’s Four-Pronged Plan Rajat Gupta has recently inherited a fast-growing consulting firm with a strong knowledge base and a competitive market position. In order to ensure the future success of McKinsey & Company, however, Gupta faces a number of challenges: he must provide outstanding services to an increasingly sophisticated clientele, offer his employees ongoing education and upwardly mobile career paths, continually enhance McKinsey’s reputation as a leader in the consulting field, and, perhaps most significantly, continue to leverage his company’s knowledge base across divisions while still maintaining the unity and cohesive corporate culture that have always been important to McKinsey. Gupta seems determined to pursue knowledge as the company’s key business driver. Accordingly, his four-pronged plan includes an emphasis on practice development and organizational learning, an annual program called the Practice Olympics, six special initiatives focused on emerging issues, and the expansion of McKinsey’s research institute. But can Gupta successfully tend to all of these initiatives at once without fragmenting the company? And are there critical business areas that he overlooks with this approach? Information Sharing and Corporate Unity vs. Cost-Effectiveness Despite its rapid growth, McKinsey & Company is attempting to maintain its “One...
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...criticism or literary analysis can be defined as, “An informed analysis and evaluation of a piece of literature”. Or A written study, evaluation and interpretation of a work of literature”. * The study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature * A theory founded upon the term “critique” (an analysis of written or oral discourse) * Literary Criticism is usually in the form of a critical essay (though book reviews may sometimes be considered literary criticism) The literary criticism is a concept, formed on the basis of critical analysis and primarily estimates the value and merit of literary works for the presence or quality of certain parameters of literary characteristics. Literary Analysis on the Basis of Literary Theory The literary theory is a boarder concept incorporating various strict senses and merits for the systematic study of the nature of literature and provides a complete set of methods for analyzing literature. * There are several "schools" of criticism which I will begin to examine Traditional Criticism The traditional criticism approach examines you examine how the author’s life, his/her biographical information, contemporary times and effect of his life circumstances on his inspiration and their reflection in his works.It Connects an author’s life events with the ideas presented in a text * Believes that authors use their own life experiences to craft texts—even if it is done unintentionally The excellence of the critical essay comes with the...
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...Scientists are playing their role to contribute for the betterment of the sports. Cricket is played worldwide and there are proper rules followed by the players. Illegal bowling action is very critical issue now a days and ICC (international cricket council) is paying more attention on this problem. It’s very difficult for the umpires to judge the faulty action on field so labs are developed to check the bowler’s action. High speed motion cameras are used in there which capture the motion and plot the 3D image of a...
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...TIM 685 STRATEGIC PLANNING COMPANY AUDIT HEWLETT PACKARD Contents Abstract 3 HP Background 3 Company Mission 4 HP’s Corporate Objectives 5 Mission and governance Analysis 5 Recommendations 6 HR Report on HP 7 Recommendation 8 Internal Analysis 8 Recommendation 8 Mergers Acquisitions and Spin-offs 9 Recommendation 9 External and Global Environment 9 External Analysis 10 Recommendation 11 Porter five forces Analysis of HP 12 Recommendation 14 SWOT Analysis 14 Conclusion / Recommendation 15 Reference: 16 Abstract This Company audit was conduct using publicly available information about Hewlett-Packard. The Audit includes mission statement, company philosophy, PEST SWOT, Financial Analysis, market position analysis, corporate governance analysis. The analysis uses industry standards for company audits such as, Porter, SWOT, and PEST as a guideline for the areas to be assessed. HP Background Hewlett Packard is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. The firm was started by Bill Hewlett and David Packard. The merger with Compaq was one of HP’s major strategic moves recently. Even in naming the new company the two founders flipped a coin in the famous garage, Dave Packard won the coin toss but conceded to pit Hewlett name at the front. "It is...
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... | |INTRODUCTION | |This is an introduction to the subject of mergers, acquisitions, buyouts and divestitures as covered in my Mergers & Acquisitions course. The purpose is to delineate how and why a merger | |decision should be made. The course focuses on mergers and acquisitions in the context of private as well as publicly traded companies. Acquisitions of private companies account for the | |majority of transactions. To properly assess a potential merger we need to perform fundamental strategic and financial analysis, but remain aware of the idiosyncrasies that each potential| |merger contains....
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...Part Two: 1. The Kano model is a tool that can be used to prioritize the Critical to Quality characteristics, as defined by the Voice of the Customer The three categories identified by the Kano model are: Must Be: The quailty characteristic must be present or the customer will go elsewhere. Performance: The better we are at meeting these needs, the happier the customer is. Delighter: Those qualities that the customer was not expecting but received as a bonus The First Step for Creating the Kano Model: Identifying the Voice of the Customer The first step for creating the Kano model is to identify the quality characteristics that are typically fuzzy, vague and nebulous. These quality characteristics are referred to as the Voice of the Customer (VOC). Once the Voice of the Customer is understood, we can attempt to translate it into quantitative terms known as critical to quality (CTQ) characteristics. This should not be a new concept for those familiar with the Six Sigma methodology. What happens from here, though, can sometimes go astray if we are not careful and try to put our own spin on the needs of the customer. This may be the result of trying to make things more easily obtainable for us—a formula for failure. Use the Kano Model to Prioritize the Critical to Quality Characteristics So, now that we have identified what is important to the customer in workable terms, we can go to the second step. Always keeping the customer in mind, we can apply the concepts outlined in the...
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...Business Analysis Part 1: Motorola Mobility As the mutual fund manager, we will be analyzing Motorola Mobility Inc. (MMI) to make a decision on whether or not to invest in the company. The following is a business analysis that will be taking place over the next couple of weeks to determine whether or not Motorola Mobility is worth investing in. A SWOT analysis for Motorola will help with the decision making. This analysis will also include the company’s internal and external stakeholders, a description of their needs and wants and how the Motorola Mobility is fulfilling them. If MMI is not fulfilling those needs this analysis will explain what the company needs to do to ensure they are. SWOT Analysis The following will give both an internal and external perspective of Motorola Mobility (MMI). A SWOT analysis for Motorola Mobility will allow us to understand and evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, the opportunities available and any threats that Motorola Mobility may face. Strengths Brand name is a strength of Motorola because of how long they have been around and the reliability of the product they put out. The brand name of Motorola is also attached to the brand Google Inc., after the Motorola Mobility and Google Inc.’s merger was officially approved in December, 2011. Products are a strong point of the Motorola name. From the StarTAC which was a very popular cell phone to the innovative smart phones in the Android smartphone family, they have continued to release...
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...and hard‐earned partners. The core issue for Eden McCallum is that it has failed to restructure its business model in a weakening global environment. Furthermore, the root cause of the problems identified in this case is that the short‐term goals of the advisory board are not aligned with the long‐term goals of the founding partners, who are looking to expand. In order to tackle these problems, three alternatives have been identified and evaluated against a decision criteria. First, we considered having the partners forgo their own profit share compensation and apportion it out to the central staff members to show a sign of confidence in the sustainability of the firm. The second alternative entails cutting costs by laying off central staff members. Finally, the third alternative involves investing more resources into the company to promote growth and offset the slowdown caused by the recession. Conclusively, after thoroughly analyzing the aforementioned alternatives, we recommend that Eden McCallum expand further. This recommendation revolves around the firm’s past performance, relative strength, and unique business model. The firm’s business model was designed to survive in poor economic conditions and it was...
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...Data Collection and Analysis Grid Use the two articles assigned by your facilitator to identify the following data collection, analysis, and measurement elements for the studies. Limit each box to no more than three sentences. | Qualitative | Quantitative | Data collection methods | This study was conducted by interview with a limited number of patients presenting to the emergency department with a chief complaint of chest pain over a three month period. The study was a spin off from a quantitative study that existed on the influence of psychosocial factors in patients. In addition, the study was designed to give quality to the numerical values of chest pain patients who were studied. | The goal of the study was to develop a baseline of how many complications there are after cardiac catheterization and after percutaneous coronary intervention. The study was a correlation of 11,119 people. With 4,010 participants the researchers compare the reactions of eptifibatide and a placebo. Nursing interventions were observed after cardiac catheterization and after percutaneous coronary intervention. The researchers took data from the patient’s records between 2001 and 2003 to conclude his or her results. | Data collection instruments | The patients interviewed by conversation consisted of 11 men and eight women. The interviewer asked three main questions of participants in Swedish and let him or her express freely his or her pain experiences. The interviews were recorded...
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...Comp3710 / Comp7580 E-Transformation in Business Dr. Alfredo Milani Reference: Dave Chaffey. E-Business and E-Commerce Management. 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall, 2004, Chapter 4, 5. K.C. Laudon, and J.P. Laudon. Management Information Systems: Management the Digital Firm. 8th Edition. Prentice Hall, 2004, Chapter 3. Lecture 3 E-business Strategy Learning objectives Follow an appropriate strategy process model for e-business; Apply tools to generate and select e-business strategies Comp3710/Comp7580 3 Michael Porter on the Internet ‘The key question is not whether to deploy Internet technology – companies have no choice if they want to stay competitive – but how to deploy it.’ Porter, M. (2001) Strategy and the Internet, Harvard Business Review, March 2001, 62–78. Comp3710/Comp7580 4 Strategy What is a strategy? • • • • ‘Defines how we will meet our objectives’ ‘Sets allocation of resources to meet goals’ ‘Selects preferred strategic option to compete within a market’ ‘Provides a long-term plan for the development of the organization’ Strategy: A broad-based formula for how a business is going to compete, what its goals should be, and what plans and policies will be needed to carry out those goals Comp3710/Comp7580 5 E-commerce strategy (e-strategy) The formulation and execution of a vision of how a new or existing company intends to do business electronically Comp3710/Comp7580 6 Different forms of organizational strategy ...
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...BIO 566 INTRODUCTION TO BIOPHYSICS QUIZ 2 MAC-JULY 2012 Question 1 Write an essay on spectroscopy which includes : (15 marks) Basic principles, nature of electromagnetic radiation, types of spectra-(absorbance, emission and fluorescene) types of spectroscopy – (principle, instrumentation and applications of atomic absortion spectroscopy, UV Visible Spectroscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy) Spectroscopy is the study of the absorption and emission of light and other radiation by matter, as related to the dependence of these processes on the wavelength of the radiation. More recently, the definition has been expanded to include the study of the interactions between particles such as electrons, protons, and ions, as well as their interaction with other particles as a function of their collision energy. Spectroscopic analysis has been crucial in the development of the most fundamental theories in physics, including quantum mechanics, the special and general theories of relativity, and quantum electrodynamics. Spectroscopy, as applied to high-energy collisions, has been a key tool in developing scientific understanding not only of the electromagnetic force but also of the strong and weak nuclear forces. The basic principle shared by all spectroscopic techniques is to shine a beam of electromagnetic radiation onto a sample, and observe how it responds to such a stimulus. The...
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...2013 AnnuAl RepoRt Find Your WorldSM ONLINE. TOuR OuR INTERACTIvE ANNuAL REpORT AT MARRIOTT.COM/INvESTOR. MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL , INC. A MESSAGE FROM OuR EXECuTIvE CHAIRMAN J.W. Marriott, Jr. Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board There are so many ways to Find Your World at Marriott International. Our more than 3,900 hotels in more than 70 countries provide the stage for you to close that important business deal, take your loved ones on a beach vacation, or explore new destinations on a journey of personal discovery. For our guests and approximately 325,000 associates at headquarters and our managed and franchised hotels, we are working hard to help you meet your goals, whether it’s creating lasting memories or building on life’s successes. I am so proud of our company. Something I’ve noticed even more in my role as Executive Chairman is that Marriott’s history and culture are the foundation for our future. Our stakeholders recognize this, too. I am confident we’ll continue our success and come even closer to realizing our vision of being the best lodging company in the world. In 2013, our strategy delivered great results. We grew our portfolio, and had more hotels in the pipeline than any time in Marriott’s history. Our leadership teams created new opportunities for growth across the globe, from opening one of every five new rooms in the u.S. and setting us up for growth in Africa, to accelerating our growth in Asia and creating and launching...
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...Washburne repeatedly mentioned in class the importance of actual Cubans to classifying music as authentic, and although the supporting members of the group were not truly Cuban or even from the Caribbean, Formell's heritage as "truly Cuban" and as the bandleader gave the performance an authenticity that may not exist if Formell was Puerto Rican. Formell seemed to have a unique skin tone, suggesting that he would fall under the classification of "creole" which is defined by Stuart Hall as having the "contemporary meaning of 'racial mixing' or ... the inter-cohabition between the two 'races' " (Hall 29). The music of Formell y Son Radical seemed closely similar to the guajira or guajira-son genre, which Peter Manuel describes as "a spin-off of the son which ... fused a medium-tempo son rhythm with guitar-based backing" (Manuel 44). The band began with a song titled "Guantanamera,"...
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