Capstone: Hewlett Packard moves into the future
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Authors
Simmons, Monica
Issue Date
2013
Type
Capstone
Language
en
Keywords
Business administration
Alternative Title
Abstract
I recommend that HP choose the risky option, selling off the negative and low-revenue divisions. HP needs to focus on becoming a strong, vibrant company, and as long as it is weighted down by poor choices made over the last decade, it cannot shine. Meg Whitman has made many changes and the stock price is beginning to go back up, but those changes alone are not enough. While HP was resting on its laurels, the market changed. The future (at least for the next five years) is mobile and cloud-based computing. HP has not been successful in the mobile market but it does have a server line that can help it compete in the cloud-based market. HP also should be moving rapidly into the 3D and 4D market; this is the truly innovative market to be in and HP owns a believability here that it does not in so many of its other divisions. HP must make these moves and make them soon, or as the Motley Fool says, "the best thing people will be able to say about HP is that it's a widows and orphans stock for the 21St century" (Mylant, 2012)