Outline: 1. Introduction of members presenting the case 2. About 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 a decentralized manner, he is trying to centralizing the business. Making sure entire HP is working of a single set of data. He is also working towards cutting costs. Initiatives taken to achieve the same are: i. $ 1 billion 3 year project – to connect 85 loosely connect data centers into 6 centers (2