Enterprise Architecture for Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company

This report discusses the enterprise architecture and strategy map of Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company. It highlights the challenges faced by the company and how it overcame them. The report explores the Zachman framework and its advantages for HP. It also discusses the strategic map of the company and how it helps in achieving its objectives.

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Introduction
In the world, Hewlett-Packard (HP) leads in providing enterprise and consumer services,
products, solutions, and technology. In the United States, HP Company is one of the five
hundred fortune companies every year as it is among the largest corporations. Hp Company
provides services such as printing, personal computing, imaging, access devices, spanning IT
framework and international services [1]. The report will describe the situation of the HP
Company, its strategy map, the Zachman framework; it will also highlight how enterprise
architecture works and its frameworks and strategy.
Identification
HP Company as a global company has a goal of raising shareholder value and it will achieve this
by looking for a better scale to increase the impact of business lines and efficiency. As it
increases its size geographically the more difficult and complex its isolated operations become
and it’s the main challenge which came up when Compaq merged with HP [2]. Other challenges
include; consolidating both firms business to diminish complexity, to attain economies of large-
scale, reduce the cost of IT systems business and enhance its consumer experience of technology.
The process of integration includes a physical blend of Compaq and HP facilities, resources, and
people and its national in nature [3]. It has a good reputation as a unified company with high
performance. HP Norway’s business culture required a change to cement its organizational core
values.
Analyze
HP’s company core values are to establish a shared management team, restricting its processes
and functions hence to achieve the values it merged with Compaq. The core values and standards
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have enabled HP Company to grow its business for over forty-five years. Another key factor in
boosting its growth of business it is its ability to neglect duties and responsibilities to its
employees, customers, and shareholders. The executives of HP Company emphasize employee
behavior and understand the importance of change to achieve its vision of controlling all its
marketplace. The executives also realize the challenge of convergence came up after it merged
its people and resources with Compaq hence having a new joint without the ability to manage
effectively.
To ensure during relocation its consolidation momentum will not be shaken the company sought
assistance from Accenture. HP Company chose to seek assistance from Accenture to be helped
to leverage and identify ways that will enhance its performance all over its operation areas.
Accenture led to successful execution in the record of the project hence playing an important part
in the success of HP’S decision making [4]. The success of the organizational change depends on
the comprehension of its business, entire technology industry and values and HP’s extensive
abilities in developing technologies and resources. For HP’s Norway integration process to
succeed, its operational companies should uphold an outer focus and serve the customers
diligently. Accenture has a group which assists companies to manage, design and implements
successful events.
Hewlett-Packard with the help of Accenture created and launched web-based review which is
customized to enable employees to unveil the cultural identity and differences between the
former employees of Compaq and of HP and their attitudes toward integration and the areas with
potential risks. The main enterprise architecture’s objective is to combine HP’s IT environment
for its specialty units with advantageous connections of its systems and business. Another
objective is to advance institutionalization, arrangement, accessibility, and reuse of IT materials
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and allotment of strategies to improve programming and venture administration. Enterprise
architecture will make IT more vital, cheap and more responsive.
Design
Enterprise architecture defines the operation and structure of a company. Its intent is to
determine how companies can use effective means t achieve its objectives. Architects help HP
build models and solve its management troubles scientifically.
Zachman framework
Zachman framework is an important enterprise architecture structure which provides a
structured and formal way of defining and viewing an organization. Zachman framework enables
HP Company to enlarge its theoretical and technical skills to succeed in this 21st century.
Following this framework, HP Company is seeking employees and consultants who can help it
show command and the best results across the broad knowledge spectrum [5]. The plan uses a
unique component which is learning based on reality and also a combination of work experience
and theory. The designs of the Zachman framework are practical and enable HP’s enterprise
architecture to enhance their general skills and broaden their industry trends comprehension.
Zachman framework offers professional certification to HP that offers increased market ableness
and career progression. A framework is also a tool helping HP Company to improve internal and
external measurement standards of performance, improve market position and set recruitment
standards [6]. The framework graphics describe the plan artifacts making up the connection of
the viewpoints used in the design process, called the HP, and the product abstraction. It
describes the principle of enterprise architecture design, where components are interrelated,
timing diagram, engineering design goals and the work of operator instructor. The company
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utilizes other observable artifacts for scoping motives and implementation. Implementers and
planners incorporate frame graphics on display.
Strategic map
Financial view
The customer view
The internal
Process
View
The learning
And growth
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Maximize shareholder value by improving cost structure,
expanding revenue and profitability opportunities,
increasing asset utilization and enhancing customer
value.
Inspire loyalty, provide reliable
delivery, introduce innovative
products, improve customer
experience, and ensure effective
compensation.
Exceed customer expectations,
provide excellent quality, and ensure
availability and functionality.
Maximize operational
effectiveness by improving
production, supply,
distribution and risk
management.
Create high quality
partnerships and products
by engaging innovation.
Improve social and
regulatory processes and
excel prevention and
compensation services and
programs
Train employees, recruit quality staff,
increase proficiency, personal skills and
innovation.
Encourage team work, alignment,
delegation of duties, communicate
company’s culture, encourage motivation,
integrity, partnership, balance and
excellence.

Evaluation and justification
The strategic map shows all current and future organizational strategy hence all employees can
understand them and where they fit. The HP’s framework of enterprise architecture uses logical
configuration to organize and categorize its descriptive representations for enterprise systems
and management, manual and automation systems [7]. It derives the enterprise architecture from
similar structures in the disciplines of engineering and architecture which organizes and
classifies artifacts generated when manufacturing and designing its hard physical products.
Zachman framework brings a lot of advantages to HP Company as modern enterprise favors it.
One of the advantages is that the Zachman framework is that the modern society accepts it
because of its excellent standards for designing and developing enterprise architecture [8]. HP
adopts the Zachman framework to guide its development process of enterprise architecture. The
enterprise architecture conveys the business model to many stakeholders including its
developers. It engages all stakeholders hence improving professional exchange in the
frameworks of the information network [9]. The strategic map improves customer and worker
satisfaction as it maintains a consistent profile to them. HP Norway has good execution which
enables its economic benefits. HP’s successful integration reduces time spent on internal
processes and improves communications.
Conclusion
Zachman framework is an enterprise structure which gives a structure and formal way of
defining and viewing enterprise. The framework intersects the former historical categories which
were applied before. Enterprise architecture involves enterprise preparation, plan, analysis and
implementation. Enterprise architecture shapes the very technical, complex and methodological
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problems and choices within HP Company. With the aid of the Zachman framework, HP has
adopted an integrated an approach to develop and implement its strategic map. Enterprise
architecture provides principles and practices to guide HP through data, process, technology
changes, business, and strategies [10]. The main aim of developing the strategic map is to
implement its strategies which are; maximize shareholder value, inspire customer loyalty,
improve customer satisfaction, create high-quality products and partnerships to maximize
operational effectiveness and foster employee skills.
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