... other and may achieve operating synergy. For example, TI's business lines, each business line can act as both suppliers and consumers for others (e.g.: digital products line acts as consumers for component business line and suppliers for the government electronics business line). The same condition may apply in HP. Deployment of resources will be explained in the later sections. Budgeting Systems Budgeting systems deal with how the financial resources are deployed in the company. The budgeting system covers the corporate levels, functional levels and business levels. The case does not mention anything about each company organizational structure, or the competition environment in business level; therefore we focus only on functional levels and business levels. In term of functional levels systems, we evaluate marketing, manufacturing, R&D and financial functions. Texas Instruments TI with its cost driven strategy which may requires these functions to operate as efficient as possible. Its objective of being first ...

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