ESSAY ON: IT Integration in the DEC-Compaq Merger

Number of Pages 10

This research paper: A 10 page paper discussing Cases IV-6 and IV-7, each of which reviews integrating the information management (IM) systems at Digital Equipment Company (DEC) and Compaq Computer in 1998, at the time that Compaq acquired DEC. The cultures of the two companies were very different going into the merger, and that difference was reflected both in the configuration of their information systems and in their respective organizational cultures. The purpose here is to assess the companies’ experience in merging their information systems in response to Compaq’s acquisition of DEC in 1998, in terms of the two companies’ use of IT management theory. Bibliography lists 2 sources.


File: CC6_KSitDECcompaq.rtf


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