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HP Plans to Split into Two Companies.

posted by LaminatorX on Monday October 06 2014, @01:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-about-the-calculators? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

PC and printers in one company, enterprise products and services in the other.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting ( http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/hewlett-packard-plans-to-break-in-two-1412530028-lMyQjAxMTE0OTAzNTEwNjUzWj?tesla=y ) that HP will break up into two separate companies. According to the report, the company appears ready to split into separate "Consumer" and "Enterprise" companies, with PCs and printers ending up in one company and corporate hardware and services operations going to the other. The Journal says HP plans to announce the move "as early as Monday."

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/report-hp-plans-to-split-into-two-companies/

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday October 06 2014, @04:08PM

    by Thexalon (636) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 06 2014, @04:08PM (#102481)

    You would not believe the mediocrity, the nepotism and the bullshit that happens there.

    Oh, I'd believe it. It's hardly surprising, when you think about it: The people most likely to be in management positions at major corporations are sociopaths. For sociopaths, the rules for that kind of job are easy enough to learn:
    - The primary goal is always to maximize the amount of money flowing from the company to your personal accounts. A secondary goal is to maximize the amount of company money you personally control, because that can be traded for all sorts of quid pro quos from vendors or shunted to your personal accounts via a number of creative embezzlement plays that will almost definitely go unpunished.
    - Company revenue matters only insofar as it generates cash that you can control.
    - Employees who do actual work are completely replaceable.
    - If something goes wrong, find a politically unpopular peer or subordinate to blame it on.
    - If something goes right, find a way to take credit for it (for example, elbow your way into planning meetings and make the announcement of what other people have done).
    - Feign loyalty to your superiors, but backstab at any opportunity.
    - All threats to your position, including successful and loyal subordinates, must be eliminated.

    One of my favorite stories from the book The Peter Principle was of a Los Angeles based TV network that had a really interesting and rather brilliant strategy for dealing with these sorts of people: The creative types who did most of the actual work convinced upper management to move to a nice new Head Office building in New York. The result was that the sociopaths and idiots in upper management spent all their time running around the Head Office conferring and battling and backstabbing, while everyone back in Los Angeles happily did their work and basically ignored everything that came from the Head Office.

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