as you imply, this is an opportunity to have all voices in the room to identify the best of each organization that we want to take forward into the future....Bruce --------------------- Bruce Halliday 403-777-2364 Garth Toombs & Associates Inc. organization and career consulting Member of Verity Filion Inc. Lee Hecht Harrison Global Partners www.garthtoombs.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Beck György" <gb...@beckground.hu> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 6:43 AM Subject: COMPAQH-P > Dear Everyone, > > The Wall Street Journal Europe has dedicated a full page to the Compaq - H-P > merger. > There was one sentence startling me, saying: "The real power in Compaq .lies > with the country managers who oversee distinct national operations, say in > France or the U.K. But at H-P, it's the managers, who direct specific > product lines, such as personal computers or UNIX servers, who hold the > reins. > <<If you want to set out a strategy for merging Compaq Europe and H-P Europe > it's not clear who should even be in the room>> . While each has a trace of > the other's model, the existing organisational differences could make it > harder to integrate the two companies should the proposed acquisition, ., go > through. Morover if H-P botches the combination, it risks losing scores of > talented managers and engineers, just as Daimler did when swallowed > Chrysler." > > After reading it I see a slight chance of a global OS, involving local > operations and also the US HQ-s having initiated the whole merger. > I think we have a network of OS practitioners and software to handle the > on-line OS part. > There is not more preconception, but I think it is worth to think over. > > I see one key question for the parties: go into a power game or finding a > synergic solution fos the monster borning. > > Looking for your comments. > > Gyuri > gb...@beckground.hu > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
