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This document summarizes a case study about Acer, a Taiwanese IT company that started as a PC manufacturer but diversified into other businesses like semiconductors and software. While diversification helped the company survive downturns, Acer struggled with coordination problems across its many divisions. A major restructuring in 1997 emphasized using IT to improve coordination and business processes. The case shows how even an IT hardware company was slow to apply IT internally, in contrast to focused PC

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Molly

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EN