He appreciated the HP Way and the opportunities he had to personally interact with the executives.
She praised the HP Way to the ranks but felt that it had decayed into consensus management.
Readers of Packard's 1995 autobiography, The HP Way, or Michael Malone's 2007 book Bill and Dave will find familiar vignettes.
The Addison garage was left behind because to fetishize it would upset the proper hierarchy of things that mattered in the HP Way.
In five and a half years at HP she shook up the company's calcified and self-satisfied style of business, known as "the HP Way, " and replaced complacency with urgency.
Their innovations as managers--profit sharing, flex-time, management by objective, the "HP Way"--transformed modern industry.
Many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs cut their teeth at HP and learned the legendary "HP Way" of management, stressing trust and openness.
For years, there's been a running debate in Silicon Valley about whether modern-day HP has maintained its innovation edge--or whether the old "HP Way" has been tarnished or destroyed.
Committee Chairman Fred Upton joined four others on his panel in questioning the companies, also raising concerns about RIM, Nokia and HP along the way, The Hill reports.
In the way that HP's move might help people forget about the fumbling of former CEO Mark Hurd's ouster, Google's change could be designed to erase memories of some awkward statements made recently by its outgoing CEO.
Microsoft was warned of how its homegrown tablet might impact OEM relationships, and even acknowledged the challenge itself, but HP doesn't see it the same way.
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Keyworth generally leaks to portray HP in the most positive way.
Sometimes only an outsider can shake things up the way she's rattling HP.
"There could be a number of landmines along the way, " says David Isaacs, who runs HP's public policy efforts in Washington.
Either way, it looks like HP pulled this off in the nick of time.
Of course HP hopes that this PC will find its way out of the den somehow.
It is no excuse either for the HP board to have gambled its future on growth by acquisition to stem the way its old-line core businesses, like storage and enterprise software, were collapsing.
And, as an HP rep noted, children might find it easier to interact with the screen this way, though admittedly, we don't have any little ones around who could have tested this claim.
With HP, Intel, and VMware, you have to figure it out all the way through.
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The play here is to sell all this in a newer, more integrated way that HP says will aid things like energy savings, and allow for a better transition to software analytics, the darling of this era of big data.
Ultimately, better management could set the stage for software applications sold not through big packages but by use of discrete parts of an overall package--much the way IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), HP and others talk about selling computing not by individual machines, but by how many processors a customer actually uses.
The company, he says, has a long way to go before it can compete effectively against the likes of IBM, Oracle and HP.
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Additionally, the 21.5-, 24- and 27-inch diagonal models feature an eight-way comfort adjust stand and new HP Quick Release 2, which is mounted flush on the back of the display for easy VESA mounting.
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There has been increasing buzz on the Street lately about the possibility that HP might spin off its PC business to focus on its enterprise software and services business, in the same way that IBM once sold off its own PC and notebooks units.
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