[Info-vax] HP short of ideas - hiring dancers for inspiration

[MG]

On 23-apr-2013 14:10, Paul Sture wrote:
> No this isn't an April Fool
>
> <http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/23/technology/innovation/trey-mcintyre-proj
> ect-hewlett-packard/index.html?hpt=hp_t3>
>
> " Lumbering tech giant Hewlett-Packard is a company that desperately
> needs new ideas. Von Hansen, the company's general manager of future
> technologies, has been working with TMP almost quarterly since 2008. He
> says working with the dancers "pulls our staff out of the same way we do
> things so that we can better design solutions and solve problems."
>
> TMP's dancers show up at HP's headquarters -- sometimes unannounced --
> and break into a performance right by employee cubicles. Afterward, the
> dancers lead employees through a discussion of the creative process and
> how a dance is created and refined."

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Okay, I've read it all about HP.

On a related note: HP sez that Discover 2013 will be worth it...
because they got Carlos Santana to perform.  Oh and there will,
presumably, be 'computer stuff'.

Great going HP, you "tech giant".

  - MG