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

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.
> 

I remember, and it's very appropriate.