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Running head: OFFICE RELOCATION PROJECT
Office Relocation Project
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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Hewlett-Packard.............................................................................................................2
Strategy Map..................................................................................................................3
Zachman Graph:.............................................................................................................4
Major Issues Faced.....................................................................................................5
Conclusion......................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The Hewlett-Packard Company which is commonly known as the HP is one of the
biggest IT Company in the world. The organisation provides global services of many
different kinds of products, solutions, technologies and services to customers and businesses.
The organisation is having several offices all around the globe which takes care of the
business [3]. This paper provides information about one of the major office relocation project
that took place in Norway. In the year of the 2002 HP merged with one of the other well-
known IT Company, the Compaq Computer corporations. This merge up proved to be one of
the biggest merge up that took place in the decade. But due to this change, the HP Norway
had to relocate an entire office from one place to other [7]. During this process, the relocation
management team had to ensure all the works in the office and business does not stop.
This paper provides some of the major issues that the team faced during this project.
The paper also provides information on how these problems were solved. Further, the paper
provides with a detailed and complete Zachman Framework and Strategy Map. A summary
of the report is also presented at the end of the report.
Hewlett-Packard
As explained above the Hewlett-Packard is one of the leading IT organization
globally which provides some of the major services to the customers and other businesses in
the world. The merger which took place between the Accenture and HP proved to be one of
the major change in the industry. The merger reported a revenue of more than $72 billion,
which included more than 14000 employees and billions of customers. The organisation
faced some of the major challenges while this process [4]. According to many of the
researchers, the geographical factors affect a lot in the process of the management of the
employees and regular works. After the merger of HP and Compaq was completed, HP was

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forced to start operations in favour of both the organisations. This not only increases the
complexity of the information technology systems but also hamper the business a lot extent.
The management team came up with some of the major processes that helped the
organisation for reducing this major issues [6]. The major problem that was faced by the
management to merge up the employees of the organisation. The employees were divided
into two groups, the Compaq team and the HP team. HP needed to find a solution soon for
the process restarting the works on behalf of both the organisation. In the offices of Norway,
both the organisations had their offices in Oslo which employed more than 500 employees.
Strategy Map
(Figure -1: Strategy Map)
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