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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <51768b9d$0$6356$e4fe514c at dreader35.news.xs4all.nl>,
	MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> 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."
> 
> ...
> 
> 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".

Well, I would go to see Carlos Santana.  But that doesn't mean
I would then buy any computer from HP.  :-)

bill

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