in recent years it put PROFITS first, leaving the design of great PRODUCTS to languish in the land of under-development.
As Apple has demonstrated, if you can build a great PRODUCT, then PROFIT will follow.
Now there is Meg Whitman, who rode the eBay internet elevator to billionaire-dom and then lost a "buy a job" campaign for governor in California, as working hard as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard.
Whitman was the imploding tech giant's third leader in barely over a year. She replaced Leo Apotheker, a German software executive, who himself had replaced Mark Hurd, who was fired in August 2010 after he "filed a false expense account" but who really was working on a female executive rather than HP products as his top priority.
Meg is a high profile "communicator" with virtually no core experience in any of HP's many lines of sophisticated products, hardware or software.
Too bad ... an example of "the quick and the DEAD"... desperate experimentation and decline ... in high tech. Contrast this to Apple's leadership with Steve Jobs and his laser focus, obsession even, on building incredible products.
What HP could have been...
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Update March 21, 2012
So how is Meg doing?
Shuffling the deck chairs while throwing crew overboard, I would say, but judge for yourself:
As Apple has demonstrated, if you can build a great PRODUCT, then PROFIT will follow.
Now there is Meg Whitman, who rode the eBay internet elevator to billionaire-dom and then lost a "buy a job" campaign for governor in California, as working hard as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard.
Whitman was the imploding tech giant's third leader in barely over a year. She replaced Leo Apotheker, a German software executive, who himself had replaced Mark Hurd, who was fired in August 2010 after he "filed a false expense account" but who really was working on a female executive rather than HP products as his top priority.
Meg is a high profile "communicator" with virtually no core experience in any of HP's many lines of sophisticated products, hardware or software.
Too bad ... an example of "the quick and the DEAD"... desperate experimentation and decline ... in high tech. Contrast this to Apple's leadership with Steve Jobs and his laser focus, obsession even, on building incredible products.
What HP could have been...
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Update March 21, 2012
So how is Meg doing?
Shuffling the deck chairs while throwing crew overboard, I would say, but judge for yourself:
"Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, wants to make it clear to shareholders: Hewlett-Packard is about the money. More than anything, Wednesday’s big reorganization is about that.
'The intent behind all these changes is to remove complexity, make it easier to buy, easier to sell, easier to get things done,' Ms. Whitman, the company’s chief executive, said in an interview. “We have to deliver more to the bottom line.'
NYT
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