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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <nospam-E6D1D7.14104623042013 at news.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 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."

And then they wonder why American business is in the crapper.

It's a lot like "Agile" and all this other business crap from Japan
that has been foisted on American companies.  They are still fighting
the war, just changed tactics. "What", you say.  Look at what Japanese
methods got them.  Fukushima.  And now we think we should use the same
business methods?

bill
 

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