...Management And Leadership: Hewlett Packard Management and Leadership: Hewlett Packard Management and Leadership: Hewlett Packard Hewlett Packard (HP) is a technology organization that has been around since 1939. They have one hundred and seventy organizations that operate all over the world (Hewlett Packard, 2010). Hewlett Packard explores how technology and the technology’s services can help organizations and people with their problems and challenges. They offer a wide range of the best technology in the world today. This includes desktops, laptops, hand-held’s, and even more. The company believes in having strong ethics and responsibilities (Hewlett Packard, 2010). They take pride in everything they do and only plan on giving their customers the best technology available. Hewlett Packard’s corporate headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California. Hewlett Packard has to have a strong management and leadership team to better serve the company’s customers with the latest technology (Hewlett Packard, 2010). This analysis will explore the difference in management and leadership, how the roles and responsibilities of the organizational leaders and managers play in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture, examine the affect of globalization and management across borders, and two strategies that leaders and management can use to create and maintain a healthy organizational culture. Management and Leadership Most people today believe that management and leadership...
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...Whitman Hewlett Packard is a multinational hardware and software corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard is Margaret “Meg” Cushing Whitman. She assumed this role in September of 2011after serving on the Board of Directors for Hewlett Packard (HP). Meg Whitman was born and raised in Long Island, New York where she graduated from high school in just three years. After graduating, she went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with honors from Princeton in 1977. She then went on to earn a Master of Business Administration degree in 1979 from Harvard University. Her career began as a Brand Manager for Procter and Gamble, and then she went on to rise from a consultant to a senior Vice President at Bain & Company. Next, she became a Vice President at The Walt Disney Company, a Vice President at Stride Rite Corporation and President and CEO of Florists’ Transworld Delivery. Her tenure at Hasbro had her bringing the British group, Teletubbies, to United States television. Meg Whitman’s major accomplishments came when in 1988 she became Chief Executive Officer of eBay where there were 30 employees and annual revenues of $4 million. Whitman was able to grow the company to about 15,000 employees and annual revenues in excess of $8 billion. A brief stint in politics, using her own money, Whitman ran for Governor of California where she lost the election. She then joined the Board of Directors of Hewlett Packard...
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...2013 CAPSTONE CASE- HEWLETT PACKARD Armah Q. Fahnbulleh Wilmington University February 19, 2013 Abstract From the Introduction to Leadership to the Negative (Dark) Side of Leadership and everything thing in between, this has been a life changing seven weeks. My mind was impacted with knowledge that I did not have prior to taking this course. This course has taught me about how to go about bringing change by getting everyone involved especially, the people that are going to be affected by the change. Working with my team members on our Capstone Case, I have learned what it takes to be a team player and a team leader. Listen to all opinions, be very thoughtful and make a sound and decisive decision on which direction to lead your company. Most of all I learned that Leadership and Change are about “PEOPLE.” 1. What have you been assigned to provide in the development of the Capstone Case? Why is it important to the 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...
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...Mgt 401 Trident University Module 3 - Case Mgt 401 IS CEO Meg Whiteman an example of internal or external succession at Hewlett-Packard and why? CEO Meg Whitman is an example of external succession at Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard went in search of a new CEO outside of the organization as a reaction to then CEO Leo Apotheker’s struggle to keep the $ 9.5 billion organization competitive, and a stock plummet of 47 percent. (Levy & Kucera, 2011) I venture to guess that Hewlett-Packard’s board was banking on Whitman using her proven talent as CEO of EBay Inc. to expose Hewlett-Packard to fresh management methodologies, systems, and approaches that differ from those used internally. (Sullivan, 2005) What happended at HP under the leadership of Leo Apotheker? Leo Apotheker was replaced after only eleven months as Hewlett-Packard’s CEO. Apotheker was the former head of European software giant SAP and was hired by Hewlett-Packard, one of the United States’ predominate hardware companies. HP’s software business made up around 2% of the company’s annual $125 billon revenue. (Goldman, 2011) Apotheker unsuccessfully tried to shift Hewlett-Packard’s culture from a hardware company to a more profitable software business. He knew and was successful in the software business and couldn’t make the transition to HP’s business plan. He made poor leadership choice and was stubborn about acquisitions, like Palm and Autonomy. By the end of tenure he wanted to take HP out of the...
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...Internal and External Factors: Hewlett Packard In the rapidly changing, complex corporate world of today, organizations must always essentially balance internal and external factors for risk, reward, threat, and opportunity. The most successful organizations of today have found the key to profitable functioning in a unstable global economy. The key is the management of internal and external factors through successful use of the four functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. These four functions are the tools that allow an organization such as Hewlett Packard to profit and prosper in the face of the powerful influential factors of globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics. This paper will discuss in detail how this corporate giant, Hewlett Packard, successfully manages these five factors through effective planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Globalization The first influential factor that plays a vital role in the HP organization to discuss is globalization. Globalization has become a vital factor in navigating and profiting from operations in the corporate world of today. HP recognizes this global market and uses extensive planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, “to tap international markets, where incomes are rising and demand is increasing” (Bateman & Snell, 2011, p. 4). In 1938, Hewlett and Packard began working out of Packard’s backyard shed of his Palo Alto home in California...
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...Business Management and Planning Professor Vermuth University of Phoenix October 4, 2011 Internal Risk Assessment Hewlett Packard Company was founded in January 1939 and was created by Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett. The company’s management uses good listening skills, engaging with customers and employees, and personal involvement for its management techniques. Hewlett and Packard managed the company using a principle called management by objective. According to Bill Packard, “management by objective refers to a system in which overall objectives clearly stated and agreed upon, and give people the flexibility to work toward those goals in ways they determine best for their own areas of responsibility. Hewlett- Packard Company strengths and weaknesses are in marketing, human resources, management, research and development, and finance have a huge impact on the profitability and welfare of it. The Hewlett Packard Company focused strongly on implementing telemarketing as way to reach its customers. Hewlett Packard Company provides its customers with software, solutions and services, and technology products. The change in the marketplace and customer’s expectations, Hewlett Packard focused on the customer insight. Hewlett Packard Company marketing leadership is received by the company creating and dispensing practical, new products, services, and resolutions. These new innovations for the company will allow the company to achieve profits and growth (Hewlett Packard, 2011)...
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...Hewlett-Packard Company Internal Risk Assessment Founded on January 1, 1939, the Hewlett-Packard Company was created by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. The management technique used was personal involvement by management, walking around, having good listening skills, and realizing that everyone in the company wants to do a good job was the key. Both managers ran the company with a principle called management by objective, which is clearly communicating the general objectives and giving employees ample room to work the goals of the company to the individual’s best ability. The employee’s personal expertise would make the employees responsible enough to achieve the company’s goals. The company’s strengths and weaknesses in marketing, human resources, management, research and development, and finance have an enormous impact on the welfare and profitability of it. According to Hosford, C. (2010), “by optimizing all of the tools available, from digital marketing to telemarketing and direct mail” (para. 4) is a marketing strength for the company. The focus is how Hewlett-Packard customers want to be accessed and notified. By implementing telemarketing more customers were reached. Market leadership is obtained by the company by creating and dispenses practical and new products, services, and resolutions. Therefore, innovation in market strategies the firm will achieve growth and profits. The human resources used by the company according to Hewlett-Packard (2011), commitment to employees...
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...Hewlett-Packard Company as known is a successful technologic company. From the year 2011, Hewlett-Packard Company fired its former CEO, and then in year 2013, the chairman is stepping down. Those movements influenced the company, what kind strategies the new CEO will use and how the new board will lead the company. The shareholders are looking for a better profit and according to Hewlett-Packard Company case, we want to know that the strength and weakness about Hewlett-Packard Company. Through the analysis and evaluation, we can see Hewlett-Packard Company is or not worth to buy out. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard found Hewlett-Packard Company in 1939. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard graduated from Stanford University, and its first product was an audio oscillator, which was built in a garage in Palo Alto. ("HP history") With their initial investment, which was a little over $500, they started their small electronics-manufacturing corporation. At the beginning, the company did not focus on any specific product; instead it produced general needs of industry. From 1950s, to 1990s, Hewlett-Packards tried to narrow its scope of business. It started to focus on test equipment for electronics. This series of test grew including accessories, software, and parallel products. In late 1950s’, Hewlett-Packard Company started to produce the computer and technological hardware and services. In year 1961, Hewlett-Packard Company shares were listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1970s’...
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...MEMO To: Mohamad Ali From: Bas van Hulsenbeek Concerning: critical analysis spin-out ------------------------------------------------- Date: October 20, 2014 Dear Mr Ali You have asked us, Hulsenbeek Strategic Issues Support, to prepare a memo providing a critical analysis of the current strategic and leadership challenges facing the spin-out of part of the business of Hewlett-Packard (“HP”) announced October 6th. This spin-out will result in two publicly traded companies: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, responsible for the storage, servers, software and security divisions and HP Inc., responsible for the PCs and printers divisions. The spin-out is expected to close by October 2015. In this memo we have: 1. Reviewed HPs past performance 2. Reviewed the rationale behind the spin-out 3. Conducted a SWOT-analysis, and 4. Concluded with our future outlook. 1. Review past performance Just as many other entrepreneurs, HP started because the founders discovered something. They wanted to see a market arise from the possibility of substituting an already-existing product or service with something better, namely more stable oscillators for a better price. Providing their market with better quality products for a better price therefore became the new company's raison d'être. Over the last 80 years, the crucial key success factor that has made HP successful has been her ability to adapt to new circumstances. For example, after starting out...
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...At twenty-three, Carly Fiorina had dropped out of UCLA Law School with no plans about what she wanted to do with her future. However, almost twenty-two years later, she became president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company - the first woman CEO of a Fortune 20 company. She was given a mandate by HP’s board of directors to “shake things up” and was later named the "Most Powerful Woman in Business" by Fortune magazine. Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent nearly twenty years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she held a number of senior leadership positions (Cara Carleton Fiorina. (2014). In 1999, Hewlett-Packard hired Carly Fiorina, former senior executive of Lucent Technologies, as its Chief Executive Officer. Carly brought nearly twenty years of knowledge and expertise in sales and marketing to the company, which was seeking to reverse a declining market position relative to its competitors such as Apple. Her successes included recreating HP's image from that of an ordinary printer manufacturer to one as a supplier of a variety of Internet products. Fiorina overcame a number of challenging hurdles in undertaking the merger of HP with Compaq Computer Corporation, while enduring the public-relations uproar associated with a proxy fight initiated by the Hewlett family, who strenuously objected to the acquisition of Compaq. She bolstered HP's image as a state of the art American engineering company while taking the company into what was becoming known as the Internet Age. However...
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...Texas Instruments and Hewlett-Packard Case Solution In: Business and Management Texas Instruments and Hewlett-Packard Case Solution Case Study 13-3: Texas Instruments and Hewlett-Packard Case Context: Texas Instrument (TI) and Hewlett Packard (HP) are two companies famous for introducing Electric and electronic products. Although competing in similar industries, their strategies are very much different. Problem Definition: Given the differences in strategy between two firms, what would you expect would be the differences between TI & HP in their planning and control system; strategic planning systems; budgeting systems; reporting systems; performance evaluation systems and incentive compensations systems. Inferred from the case, we expect some differences in planning and control system between Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard. This paper will discuss and propose some strategic planning systems, budgeting systems, reporting systems, performance evaluation systems and incentive compensation system for each company. . Strategic Planning Systems: In term of corporate level strategy, both firms have the same definition of business in which the firm will participate. TI and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are both in high-technology electric and electronics. But, the second aspect of corporate level strategy, which is deployment of resources among the business, may be different for each...
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...2 – Outline : ‘The Hewlett Packard Way” Case Study: I chose the ‘Hewlett Packard way’ as last year I spent the whole year as Store manager in a retail position. The first half of the year I managed for a company with a reputation for high staff turnover and in the second half I managed for a company with similar values to Hewlett Packard. Not only were staff members more loyal in the second company but the level of self-driven motivation was second to none. I am passionate about this management style. Contemporary management Issues in relation to this article Issue: HP consistently puts principles derived from Theory Y into practice taking a completely soft model of Human Resource Management approach. However more recently HP have been experiencing problems because of a downturn in the economy and needs to reduce costs. Should HP stick with this approach through this rough patch though more costly? The Company: Hewlett Packard company or HP is a public, manufacturing and professional services sector industry founded in 1939 by William Hewlett and David Packard. It provides It provides computer hardware/software and IT services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesse and large enterprises. Founders Bill and Dave established a philosophy of management called the ‘HP way’ which is 100% people orientated built on recognition of achievements. Key management Issues: The problem with a purely Theory Y based approach to management saves money in the long...
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...Leadership Styles of Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs Running head: LEADERSHIP STYLES OF CARLY FIORINA AND STEVE JOBS 1 Leadership Styles of Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs Group 1 Management 4314 MGT4314 Submitted to Dr. Stephanie Solansky Leadership Styles of Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs Leadership Styles of Carly Fiorina and Steve Jobs Carly Fiorina took a leadership position as CEO of Hewlett-Packard for about 6 years. She brought to Hewlett-Packard (HP) nearly twenty years of experience and expertise in marketing and sales that she acquired with AT&T and Lucent. However, she failed to execute HP's strategy and deliver improvements in the company's profits and stock price. She was asked by Hewlett-Packard's board of directors to resign due to the lack of the leadership skills needed to take advantage of emerging market opportunities (Hewlett-Packard, 2007). Fiorina's mistakes in leading HP are an illustration that leadership effectiveness is dependent on situation and other environmental influences, 2 and not only the traits of the leader. In contrast to Fiorina’s leadership failure, a success story unfolded at Apple Computers where a leader practically saved the company. Management guru Jim Collins calls him the "Beethoven of business," Wall Street loves him, and even Bill Gates became more of a partner to him after once being his nemesis. This powerful man is Steve Jobs, cofounder and current chief executive officer of Apple Computer. Much has been made of Jobs'...
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...DREAM COMPANY My Dream Company is Hewlett – Packard Co. I would like to see myself in top position as a General Manager of HP Company in near future. HP Company is known for its best quality products and great services. This prestigious organization gives me more opportunities like exploring my innovative thoughts in building this organization in perfect manner. “Because of its large scale productivity & services all over the world makes any person or customer comfortable. HP company is founded by two great personalities Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett by partnership on January 1, 1939 and it is a technology company established world wide” ( “Microwave Journal”, 2008) . Hewlett Packard, a company that has often been cited in business and management literature as being 'visionary', 'exemplar', 'innovative' and 'cutting-edge'. During the 1980s and 1990s, a variety of commentators suggested that the main reason why the company was so successful over a very long period of time could be found in the management of its corporate culture - 'The HP Way' (“Management Case Study Journal”, 2006). HP company gives a lots of great opportunities for the fresher’s in developing and manufacturing like designing software, networking hardware etc., where the fresher’s come into play because of its vast production employees can bring all their innovative thoughts and increasing the growth in friendly manner. And we all know that HP Company exceeding $100 billion and became first...
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...Octavia Brown MGMT303 – Professor Runyon July 29th, 2011 SWOT Analysis Introduction Hewlett-Packard is a global technology company that provides various products, software, and services to a range of customers, including data storage, servers and solutions to business customers as well as a consulting services segment that offers information technology integration solutions for a range of technology issues. After its merger with Compaq, it became the world’s biggest computer hardware company, ranking number 20 in the Fortune 500 list. HP is doing business in more than 170 developed and under-developed countries. Being a large company gives HP many advantages such as dominating the market for printers (laser and inkjet), both for consumers and businesses using the economies of scale. The company is also taking an active role in developing the capacity of new markets all around the world, engaging with other multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, and other world governing bodies to reignite the competitiveness at home and abroad through policies and strategies that can support free-market economies. This is one of the reasons HP a leading technology company in the growing IT markets (HP Annual Report, 2003). (S) Strengths Hewlett-Packard generated nearly $6.1 billion in cash flow from its operations and increased its cash and equivalents by 3 billion in 2003 (Datamonitor, 2004). Debt levels in this year were also very low which was significantly...
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