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

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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

They (HP) blew 8-10 billion on that english company and not a dollar on 
VMS.  What makes you think they would change direction now?