1. Describe the main types of equipment found in offices and how they are used. Include examples of at least three different types of office equipment. Computers. They are used for creating and saving documents using office software like: Microsoft word, (or the free option Open office Writer). Microsoft excel for spreadsheets used for data entry, accounting, data analysing (the free equivalent exist with Open office spreadsheets). Microsoft office publisher is a program used to create and edit
After carefully reviewing the letter from Executive Director William Patterson, of CtW Investment Group, addressed to Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) Lead Director and Corporate Governance Committee Chairman Rajiv Gupta, I have discovered many new items I was not previously aware of. This well thought and precisely constructed letter clearly addresses the issues and concerns felt by a majority of HP’s shareholders following the news regarding the recent $8 billion of impairment charges. If I were a stockholder
HP ProCurve Case Discussion 1. Evolution of NB (networking business) Period | Industry Trends & Competition | NB’s Focus & Strategy | Attention from HP Top Management | Internal Relationships | External Relationships | Resource Allocation | NB Performance | 1. Emergence1970s | Fermentation, very few companies (3com) | Interconnect with disparate computers, emulating IBM systems and networking HP computers among themselves. | Very little | Management didn’t give it much attention
Hewlett-Packard SWOT Analysis Strengths Hewlett-Packard is a global technology company and after its merger with Compaq it became world 's biggest computer hardware and peripherals company in the world, ranking 20 in the Fortune 500 list. Company is doing business in more then 170 countries including the ones that are developing and under-developed. Being a large company gives HP many advantages like dominating the market for printers, both laser and inkjet, and both for consumers
The 30s Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard finished their studies as electrical engineersin the Stanford University in 1934. They became close friend and in 1939 they decided to start a business "and make a run for it" themselves. Hewlett-Packard Company is founded January 1939.Bill and Dave begin part-time work in a garage with $538 in working capital. Bill 's study of negative feedback results in HP 's first product the resistance-capacitance audio oscillator (HP 200A), an electronic instrument used
What was Fiorina’s leadership style? Was she the right choice for HP? No matter which leadership theory it is to apply, Fiorina’s leadership style in HP was relatively clear-cut: a task-oriented, autocratic, transactional leadership style, whichever way it is named. This leadership style can be reflected from her first moves after joining HP. Firstly, she required the marketing department to launch a re-branding advertising campaign in 6 weeks, which, considered the size and the circumstances
One weakness for the company would be HP’s software sales. According to Peter Grant from EHOW, “HP software sales and HP’s Enterprise Business line of software products are one of the weaker revenue streams among HP’s other business units”. “These software products compete with others produced by Microsoft, VMWare, and Salesforce in the CRM, ERP, and virtualization software markets” (Grant, Peter). Another weakness for the company is their lack of presence in the tablet market. HP continues to produce
Building and managing a company to become successful takes lots of hard work and determination from the company’s management. The founders of the technology company Hewlett Packard (HP), Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard set out to do just that. The vision of success for the company was clear to the founders. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard formed a two-person company in a rented garage, which was the original Silicon Valley startup. Working with limited resources, the pair created a series of products and
Abstract Dell and hp are the two top company’s in preparing laptops and computers and we are going to analyze and compare these two company’s . And I am going to give the detail of which company has the good growth in 2016 year for inveting in share markets Introduction Dell Dell was founded by Michael dell in the year 1998 at Texas in a small hut by investing $1,000 the net income of dell is 4.59 billion in 20016 and its headquarters is established in Texas . 1984 — Michael Dell discovered PC
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