Which of the forces for change are causing HP to undertake major organizational change?explain.

Page 333 Management in Action Hewlett-Packard Is Counting on Organizational Change to Boost Revenue Growth Hewlett Packard is Counting on Organizational Change to Boost Meg Whitman became CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2011. Since the time H-P's revenue peaked in 2011 at $127 bilion, it has dropped every subsequent year. On the positive side, the company had two consecutive quarters of growth in 2014. H-P also is trying to rightsize and reduce costs by planning to lay off 16,000 employees. H-P earlier decided to lay off 34,000 people, resulting in a total reduction of 50,000 employees 100 Whitman described the job cuts "as an opportunity to streamline the company further and make it more nimble. An expected $1 billion in cost savings in fiscal 2016 would allow H-P to invest in new technologies and skills to revive growth" Others, like UBS analyst Steven Milunovich, believe that these job cuts will erode employee morale and may lead to increased turnover 191 "But fixing the world's biggest tech company-with $120 billion in annual revenues and 330,000 employees-is a herculean task. Bloated by more than 70 acquisitions in the past 15 years, HP isn't just sprawling and stalled out it may actually be running in reverse 102 Whitman decided to change the organizational structure to fuel growth. She created two clusters of businesses. One focuses on corporate technology customers. This group, which sells servers, storage, and networking, delivered 43% of the company's overall operating profits according to Forbes. Unfortunately, the software and services that accompany all this hardware have not been as successful. H-P tried to build the software side of the business via acquisitions, which according to Forbes have not been very successful. The magazine noted that 'when it comes to software acquisitions. Autonomy [H-P's enterprise software company] was merely the most high-profit misstep All told, over the past decade HP squandered nearly $19 billion to buy myriad outfits that contribute only 7% to overall profit The services unit, which staffs other companies' tech projects is barely at breakeven"102 H-P is currently "looking for small to midsize acquisition candidates in cloud computing security, and analytics software 104 The second structural cluster sells printers, PCs, laptops, and mobile devices to people worldwide This segment of the business contributed 29% of operating profits in 2013 The problem here is that 2