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

[MG]

On 23-apr-2013 19:12, David Froble wrote:
> 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?

Strange, the above messages didn't appear in the thread for me.

  - MG