Sun Microsystems: Strategic Thinking
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I need help to start with a 1,050-word to 1,400-word paper, identify several companies that have demonstrated strategic thinking about issues that are similar to those faced by your selected organization. Provide an overview of the issues, identify a total of five different strategies utilized by those companies to address them, and discuss the outcomes. Based on the five strategies, explain how you would adopt them in your selected organization to address the issues you identified.
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Sun Microsystems: Strategic Thinking
Introduction
This paper identifies various companies that have demonstrated strategic thinking about issues that are similar to those faced by Sun Microsystems. In addition, it depicts some issues that are faced by identified organization and a total of five different strategies that are utilized by those companies to address the issues. In the end, it describes how Sun Microsystems would use those five strategies to resolve their business operations issues.
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems was earlier known as Stanford Unified Networks. It is an American vendor of computers, computer components and software & information technology. It is accountable for projecting the largest data warehouse facility in the world. Sun Microsystems has diversified computer systems with products admitting computer servers and workstations, based on its own SPARC processors along with AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors, storage systems and a set of software products, including the Solaris Operating System, developer tools, Web infrastructure software and identity management applications (Sun Microsystems Inc, 2008).
Company had also faced following issues for which they had demonstrated strategic thinking:
Loss of Integration in between human capital in Global Operation
Competition
Managing Change (COBIT and IT Governance Case Study: Sun Microsystems, 2008).
Identified Companies
IBM:
IBM is the world's leading information technology and business consulting company which is operating in more than 160 countries. IBM is one of the best companies in the Information Technology Industry. IBM works for the industry with a predetermined outline of on demand dealing. This type of dealing is made possible by IBM through the process of transformation. It also faces some issues which Sun Microsystems is also facing in managing its business operations and for resolving all these kinds of issues, company is using strategic thinking. IBM is facing a challenge in managing its human capital and for resolving this issue, it had adopted this ...
Education
- MBA (IP), International Center for Internationa Business
- BBA, University of Rajasthan
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