Thursday, January 10, 2013

CAN WHITMAN MAKE HP THE COMEBACK KID OF SILICON VALLEY?



Wow. Hewlett-Packard’s has fallen fast, and head honcho Meg Whitman says she needs 5 years to seriously turn things around. 

HP’s been through the ringer with a dwindled share price, sales drops, mounting debt, botched management, blame games and brain drain since 1990 aka ‘the dawn of its decline’. But all is not lost: leadership could be the real answer to the tech giant’s resurgence. Good start, Meg, with the focus on innovation and “preach(ing) frugality and humility”. We really want to see how she pulls this off; and the fact that she believes this will be “one of the great comeback stories in American business.”?  Love the attitude!