
No vision, no ideas and a shit company culture where they try to blame companies they have acquired for the failure of the mothership.
Showering partners with love, making changes to the exec line-up, upping R&D and other tweaks made by CEO Meg Whitman were supposed to get HP's business firing on all cylinders, but after year three of the turnaround plan, they've yet to do so. The release of Q4 fiscal ’14 numbers for the year ended October reveal a company …
"the opportunity to create an IT infrastructure for each company that isn’t based on our legacy IT systems"
This would be the same quality kit (and I'm talking enterprise grade stuff here) they had/have us customers spend so much money on buying and supporting then would it?
OK, lesson learned.
"Certainly. Would you like an HP Stream 7, HP Stream 8, HP 10 Plus, HP Slate 8 Plus, HP Slate 7 VoiceTab Ultra, HP 7 Plus, HP Slate 21 All-in-One, HP Slate 10 Plus Tablet, HP ElitePad 1000 G2 or an HP Pro Tablet 610 G1 PC?"
"Ermmm ... I'll have a think" (Slopes off to buy a Nexus or an iPad)
Not a big fan of Meg myself but you do have to admit the complete ass hatry of the fairly recent past with a new CEO every 9 months and the board facing criminal charges has quieted down a bit the last couple of years (though they are still flinging shit trying to cover not doing their jobs back then). She may not save HP but she at least as reduced the dumpster fire to a smoldering heap.
"... accelerating pockets of growth."
Accelerating growth in the positive "pockets?"
Accelerating the rate that growth pockets are evaluated. (Excellent! Why didn't you push that button earlier?)
But, but, but, Dan, acceleration is good, growth is good, it's good, can't you see it? Oh. Not a stock investor, then in the blessed name of W.C. Fields, go away son, you're bothering me.
Getting more RFPs! (I can't really see as how that is so much will as a better business economy.)
Higher Win Rate! (Which is good, if the wins are for the highly profitable proposals. If it's for low-margin, or worse, underpriced proposals, stock up on aspirin now for the headaches in '15 and '16.)
Okay. I have pockets. Better go make them clear growth pockets. And then accelerate them.
HP WorksiteMP and other products that have no equivalent/improved version that cease to be supported will result in a loss of maintenance next year as customers abandon HP software products.
I feel sorry for the workforce, not the board members who all deserve to be replaced.