nces and products Healthcare Solutions Group The Healthcare Solutions Group is a leader in clinical measurement and diagnostic solutions for the healthcare marketplace. Its products and systems enable medical professionals to gather data and analyze information in hospital intensive-care units, outpatient clinics, doctors' offices and patients' homes. Semiconductor Products Group (Components) The Semiconductor Products Group is a leading supplier of semiconductor components, modules and assemblies for high-performance communications infrastructure, computing devices and mobile information appliances. Four of the five HP priorities within corporate level strategies are interrelated (this excludes Agilent) and affect the others. HP labs is crucial in creating and improving printers, computer products and enterprise consulting products. Printers, computers, and enterprise consulting can be bundled together providing a one-stop shopping mechanism for customers. Whether the customer is a personal/home computer user or a large corporate customer, bundling creates a differentiation for HP. Given the choice, most people or organizations would prefer to work with one company for all their needs (so long as all needs are provided and the quality of products is high), as opposed to working with six different vendors for PC뭩, printers, scanners, servers, networking service and e-services. Section 10 Summary of Issues, Strategic Recommendations and Implementation Summary of Issues The growth of the PC market is topping off, as far as US profit margins go. All PC companies will be faced with this same situation, and developing solutions to maintain profitability. Diversifying into new product lines, line extensions, or all new categories will become increasingly common among the PC manufacturers. Again, this was apparent in HP뭩 situation with Agilent Technologies. Other key points that HP needs to focus on to maintain profitability, and...
