Seagate Technologies

Case Study # 115559

Business > Companies

A comprehensive analysis and strategic assessment of the Seagate Technology company.

8,923 words () | 32 sources | MLA | 2009 Philippines

Paper Summary:

This paper overviews the hard disk drive industry as well as the hard disk drive manufacturing process. The paper specifically examines the political, economic, socio-cultural, technological and environmental factors in which Seagate Technologies operates. The company's strengths, weakness, threats and opportunities are evaluated and five key strategies for Seagate to pursue are provided. The paper concludes that the strategies suggested are critical not only to Seagate's success, but to its survival as well.

Outline:
Abstract
Introduction
HDD Technology Background
History of the Hard Disk Drive Industry
The Hard Disk Drive Manufacturing Process
Seagate Technology
Seagate's World Wide Organization
Seagate's Products Lines: Product Line Segmentation
Product Portfolio Management
Seagate's Economical Environment: Environmental Scanning
Porter's 5 Forces Model
SWOT Analysis
Strategy Formulation
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The Hard Disk Drive is a mechanical device that uses electromagnetism to store data in a form of binary magnetic codes. It is in the HDD that all of the computer programs and data are accessed by the user. HDD is known as a permanent storage device as distinguished from the semiconductor's temporary memory devices. There are other types of permanent storage used in computers, the others being the floppy disks, compact disks, digital memory tapes and lately, the solid state devices (SSD) which are commonly called as USB memory devices or Flash Drives. The hard disk differs from the others primarily in three ways: physical size (usually larger dimensions), speed (usually faster data seek time), capacity (more amount of memory that can be stored), permanence (usually is permanent and is not removable), and storage mechanism. Storage mechanism refers to how the data is stored and retrieved for future use."

Sample of Sources Used:

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/investor_relations/financial_information/
http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/070516.html
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.368c8bfe833dee8056fb11f0aac4f0a0/
http://www.wdc.com/en/
http://www.emasiamag.com/article-2088-worldwidehddstorageindustrytomorethanquadruplecapacityshippedby2011predictsidc-Asia.html