Turning an idea farm into a hit factory
Inside HP's plan to get more bang for its research buck Prith Banerjee, former dean of the engineering school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, brings new ideas to his role as director of HP...
View ArticleHP's printer challenge
As sales growth slows, the focus shifts to services HP Executive Vice President Vyomesh Joshi wants to use software and services to drive printing profits. Courtesy: HP Even during the bad times,...
View ArticleGetting innovation out of the lab at Xerox
Xerox technology chief Sophie Vandebroek is placing bets on technologies to spur growth. Image: Xerox Xerox (XRX) PARC has come a long way. A generation ago, the Palo Alto Research Center famously...
View ArticleHP's golden goose
When is great not good enough? When you're Hewlett-Packard's printing group. A few years ago, the $28 billion business, headed by veteran Vyomesh Joshi, was the goose that kept laying golden eggs. It...
View ArticleHP's many paths to profit
HP printer sales are dropping, but high-profit ink sales remain strong. Image: HP Where's the most expensive popcorn in the universe? At the movie theater, of course. Theaters know you'll pay because...
View ArticleDesigning trucks in the cloud [video]
Jon Fortt talks to Kenworth about a practical use for cloud computing. Posted in Enterprise
View ArticleRemember Lexmark? The printer underdog is still fighting
In this era of Kindle books, text messages and Facebook photos, printed information is taking it on the chin — and perhaps no company has been hit harder than Lexmark. The Kentucky-based printer...
View ArticleIf HP merges PCs and printing, executive power will shift
If HP CEO Mark Hurd does merge the PC and printing businesses, what will that mean for printing chief Vyomesh Joshi? A few months back, I spent some time at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) headquarters with...
View ArticleShutterfly fights the photo recession
Photo site offers lens into the post-print world. At lunch on a recent afternoon in Silicon Valley, Shutterfly CEO Jeffrey Housenbold is remarkably upbeat, considering the miserable year the overall...
View ArticleThe death of a (printer) salesman
In the near future, most big businesses won't actually buy printers. The shocker: HP is looking forward to that. Bruce Dahlgren's job at Hewlett-Packard is to sell printers to big customers. Well, sort...
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