Your assessment of the insiders is a correct one, and I do believe an insider would create less distraction for HP in the markets. I would say that Todd and VJ have the best shots from a hardware and BU contribution perspective. But the question is what defines HP these days?
The media keeps painting HPas a PC company that has lost its way in mobility, and yet, the imaging business (mainly through toner sales) is what drives the bottom line in good times and bad. Print/imaging is still very much a big piece of the soul of this company. But then there is the EDS acquisition, and HP, like others has catapulted into the services business, ahead of IBM now. And so Ann is very capable vision-wise from a services led perspective.
So there are three strong front runners internally. The question for the board is "what defines HP going forward?"
kevin mccague - 14 years ago
Management has lost the employees. No trust now that we all know they got lavish packages while we took 5-10% cuts...And, our CIO was the highest paid of all Business Unit Executives???
And, HP does not give anyone "promotional" raises. That is absurd. You have scores of people who step up to the next level, only to discover that as long as you are already on that jobs pay curve somewhere (could be bottom 10%), you get no raise!!!
Nice company
Pierre Adida - 14 years ago
I don't know the insiders, only one, Bradley. My only caveat is HP must find someone with long terme strategic vision, charismatic leader and entrepreneur, not only a cost killer. Is Bradley this kind of man????
Your assessment of the insiders is a correct one, and I do believe an insider would create less distraction for HP in the markets. I would say that Todd and VJ have the best shots from a hardware and BU contribution perspective. But the question is what defines HP these days?
The media keeps painting HPas a PC company that has lost its way in mobility, and yet, the imaging business (mainly through toner sales) is what drives the bottom line in good times and bad. Print/imaging is still very much a big piece of the soul of this company. But then there is the EDS acquisition, and HP, like others has catapulted into the services business, ahead of IBM now. And so Ann is very capable vision-wise from a services led perspective.
So there are three strong front runners internally. The question for the board is "what defines HP going forward?"
Management has lost the employees. No trust now that we all know they got lavish packages while we took 5-10% cuts...And, our CIO was the highest paid of all Business Unit Executives???
And, HP does not give anyone "promotional" raises. That is absurd. You have scores of people who step up to the next level, only to discover that as long as you are already on that jobs pay curve somewhere (could be bottom 10%), you get no raise!!!
Nice company
I don't know the insiders, only one, Bradley. My only caveat is HP must find someone with long terme strategic vision, charismatic leader and entrepreneur, not only a cost killer. Is Bradley this kind of man????