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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

Hewlett-Packard more commonly known as HP is a consumer electronics company. Since their humble beginnings they have had a focus on inventive thinking and creativity. Last year this company celebrated its 75th anniversary. 75 years is a major accomplishment for any company, but it is especially significant for a company in an industry as competitive and prone to change as the technology industry. HP has been inventing and manufacturing electronics for almost twice as long as several of the industries

Case Study Crushing the CrackBerry By the summer of 2012, the company that created the legendary BlackBerry, the “crackberry”, the use of which caused loyal users to become addicted now seemed to be on a collision course with oblivion. All signs pointed to Research in Motion, RIM, the company who at the beginning of the new century invented a handheld device that spread like wildfire, either being eviscerated for its parts or sold at fire sale prices. As RIM announced yet another quarter of disappointing

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

Kendrick Gary Dr. Courts BA310 November 29, 2017 HP Case Study Report Hewlett Packard (HP) is an American multinational information technology corporation, which was founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. HP is one of the leading companies across the globe, comprised of 150,000 employees and operates in more than 170 countries. HP provides hardware and software to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) as well as large corporations. HP’s purpose is to provide quality products and services