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Develop a case study that analyzes the competitive position of a business organization in a technologically-oriented industry. This case study should demonstrate an understanding of competitive forces and principles applicable to competitive environments, including Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” axioms. The case study should be 5-7 pages in length.

“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. Sun Tzu

“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?” Sun Tzu

I work for Electronic Data Systems (EDS). "EDS is a global business and technology services company headquartered in Plano, Texas."

Hewlett-Packard Co. reached a deal with EDS to acquire the company for $13.9 billion . On August 26, 2008, the deal was sealed and EDS was renamed EDS, an HP Company.

After the normal paranoid questions were raised (possible layoffs, transfers, loss of pensions, etc.), everyone had questions about HP and Compaq computers. The first questions were, “What are we going to do with all of the Dell servers and computers? Are we going to get new HP workstations? And how can we get free computers, or at least reduced?

These questions got me to research Employee Computer Purchase Plans with several other companies.

Siemens AG is Europe's largest engineering conglomerate; it is one of the world’s largest communications, electronics and electrical engineering companies. Siemens' headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Siemens employs over 480,000 people in nearly 190 countries; their revenues were over 72.448 billion Euros in fiscal year 2007.

The company has three main business sectors. These...

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... It’s perfect.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Sun Tzu Qotes (2008). Retrieved September 10, 2008 from the

BrainyQuote website: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sun_tzu.html

“Electronic Data Systems” (2008). Retrieved September 11, 2008 from

the Wikipedia website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Systems.

Margaret E. Dobbin. (2008). “Open Text: The Content Experts”.

Retrieved September 11, 2008, from Open Text Web siste:

http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=123.

Paul, Franklin (2008). "HP to buy EDS for $12.6 bln in challenge to

IBM", Reuters, pp. 4. Retrieved on September 11, 2008, from the

Reuter UK website: http://uk.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUKN1230539620080514.

(2008). “Fujitsu: The Possibilities are Infinite”. Retrived

September 11, 2008, from the Fujitsu website: http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/

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