Hewlett Packard Analysis
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Research Hewlett Packard (Annual reports often can be obtained from companies' web sites.)
Conduct a brief organizational analysis by answering the following questions:
Are its production facilities centralized or decentralized?
Does it standardize products or adapt them for different markets?
Based on the strategies that this company employs within the organization, will the company be successful in its international ventures? What changes would you recommend the organization make to help it be more successful in international markets?
Despite the difficulties, many technology companies experienced when the dot-com bubble burst - Internet commerce (e-business) is here to stay. What resources does an International Internet retailer need other than merely a storefront on the Internet? Does it require fewer physical, financial, and human resources than a traditional retailer, or just as many? Explain.
Use resources to research one of the following companies (Yahoo, Google, EBay, AOL, or other internet companies you may be aware of) and explain why it is so successful despite the failures of other dot.com organizations. Explain what you think made this company so successful.
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A discussion on the organizational set up and how it expands into global markets and acclimates to those markets. The solution looks specifically at HP in 615 words.
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I will do an outline of the HP question and you can fill in the adjectives and adverbs.
HP is a company managed from the inside with a decentralized element. It has its main headquarters in Palo Alto, CA and in what is widely known as the Garage. Neither is available for tours. It also has corporate offices that work as headquarters for their regions in the Americas, Asia, and Europe (which covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa). The overall point to these different "headquarters" is to meet the needs of the companies and people, businesses and governments of their regions.
The products have some standardization, but products using such technology are going to be adapted to the market they are sold in. The languages, the needs of the organization all are taken into consideration when creating the system. What a school needs is not what the home user ...
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