Hewlett Packard Case Solution

1. HP Company Overview

Hewlett- Packard (HP) Company is a U.S based business with its operations over spread over 170 countries that provide products related to technology and software packages to different customers that are the households and small & medium sized corporations (Forbes.com, 2013). The company competes in various sectors that are grouped into seven major categories of Personal Systems Group, Imaging and Printing Group, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, Software, Financial Services and Corporate Investment (Hewlett-Packard Company- Financial and Strategic Analysis Review, 2013). The other services include computing devices, outsourcing, application management and other printed related solutions (Hewlett-Packard Company- Financial and Strategic Analysis Review, 2013). The different customer segments include both the commercial and consumer segments and cater for the provision of various hardware and software along with technological devices. The HP’s enterprise service system largely caters for business organizations. The financial services like hire purchase and leasing is specially catered for the educational and governmental set-ups (Hewlett-Packard Company- Financial and Strategic Analysis Review, 2013).

2. Business Strategy of HP

According to Larry Dignan in his article,’ Hp’s New Strategy’ published on March 14, 2011 describes that HP heavily relies on the cloud technology. CEO Leo Apotheker claims that HP will base its business majorly on cloud technology, data management and security information. HP’s strategy also involves a partnership with various transactional operations. HP aims to provide businesses with value related to its software interface of WebOS (Dignan, 2011). HP further has collaborated with various organizations like US Department of Veteran Affairs to provide for software solutions. Similarly, it signed a contract with BMW group to provide for technological services (Hewlett-Packard Company- Financial and Strategic Analysis Review, 2013). HP is also aware of its position in the IT market whereby annual expenditures increase every year due to high demand for IT services. The business strategy also involves HP’s corporate social responsibility whereby the collaboration took place between Central Logic and HP to provide health care facilities to the patients at low costs (Hewlett-Packard Company- Financial and Strategic Analysis Review, 2013).

3. Impact of Senior Management at HP

According to the article ‘Can Meg Whitman Reverse Hewlett- Packard’s Free Fall?’ written by Ashlee Vance and Aaron Ricadela published on January 10, 2013 in Business Week discusses the HP’s fourth Chief Executive Officer, Whitman and her past career before joining HP. Whitman stayed in politics where she faced a struggle for a $150 million campaign after passing some of her life in politics (Vance & Ricadela, 2013). HP faces crucial situations due to the stagnant sales of HP desktops and printers and Whitman used her farsightedness and claimed that she can turn things better for HP; however, it will take a period of five years to recover (Vance & Ricadela, 2013).