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

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In article <nospam-E6D1D7.14104623042013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>No this isn't an April Fool

I had to check my calendar! ;)



><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."

Un-fucking-believable! (<= a tmesis, BTW)  They could have better spent
money on VMS instead of this Corporate Rhumba Arts Program!!!
>-- 
>Paul Sture
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