Re: Carly Fired!
Yeh tow hona hee thaa… heving heard Carly in person at a seminar, I gotta say that she’s the most confident and convincing lady I’ve ever come across… but business analysts agree that although she had the leadership style… she just failed in executing her strategy.
To start with, her controversial merger with Compaq in 2002 faced major opposition esp. from Walter Hewlett… and I guess his views have just been vindicated by the recent turn of events.
The merger didn’t solve any of HP’s problems… it just added Compaq’s to its own. Post-merger, HP could have done a better job in marketing its products, and squeezing its costs… but the shareholders didn’t have the patience for things to catch upto speed cuz IBM and Dell have been doing a lot better.
I dunno how things for HP are gonna go hereon. They’ve always wanted to break up into two companies… one focused on corporate customers and the other for the consumer side of things… but Carly had always opposed this…
I guess HP can look for someone to buy out its PC business like IBM did with Lenovo… but with the merger, HP now has not only its own but also Compaq’s assets.
Dekho kya banta hai - rest assured, she doesn't need a job if she wishes to do so :)