Re: All is not well at the HP board

Sharon wrote:
Sadly, I've been wondering the same thing. One thing's for sure, I
really feel bad for Sue and Hoff and all the other hard-working and excellent
people in VMS engineering who definitely don't deserve this crap.


I don't think for a minute that this soap opera will really impact HP
financials, except perhaps HP might have to increase its advertising
budget to rebuild its image after this episode of "as the HP board
turns" is over.

In terms of Sue and others, the real danger here is that the corporation
might put such a high degree of fear about leaks that no employee will
ever again wish to have a dialogue with customers for fear of being
caught revealing corporate information.

Contrary to what Hurd has said, the CNET articles about HP's strategy
actually helped HP because it allowed customers to see what HP's
strategy was. Otherwise, customers remain in the dark and don't know
what HP is up to. And while this may be fine for a consumer products
firm, it isn't for enterprise computing firm where the relationship with
the customer HAS to be different, unless yo start selling commodity
based stuff where future directions are not something customers have to
worry about.

And by ensuring the strategy becomes public, it prevents the board from
making decisions that will screw customers.
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