The goal of the assignment was to explore strategy of the Computacenter.

By considering corporate development history and current situation strategy, it became possible to identify direction for the future. Opportunities and threats for Computacenter have been estimated, basing on the analysis of IT-industry (using Porter’s Five Forces) and macro-environmental analysis (using PEST framework). According to the results of researches were given recommendations for the future strategic direction.

analysis strategic computacenter threat

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[12] http://www.computacenter.com/services/transform/datacentre_technology_optimisation/datacentre_current_state_assessment.asp