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

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In article <kl6f3a$p4v$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>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?

I didn't.  Remember, I coined Hopelessly Pathetic to describe them.

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