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HP Top Level Executive On Life After the Split (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares a ZDNet report: George Brasher is a 26-year HP veteran who has worked in a variety of roles in the company's printer and PC divisions over the years and is now HP Inc's managing director for the UK and Ireland. We began by asking how the first fifteen 'post-split' months had gone. "If you go back to the genesis of the separation, what Meg [Whitman, CEO of HPE and chairwoman of HP Inc] said was that, by splitting into two businesses, we'd be able to have more focus -- and I think that's truly what's happened with HP Inc. What we wanted to get out of it was: could we be more focused on our markets; could we actually accelerate our pace of innovation and get closer to our customers? In general, I'd say the answer is a resounding 'yes'." [...] The second thing is -- and you can see examples around this room [the CWC] -- we're a technology company, and innovation is our lifeblood: if you look at PC and print, we've seen more significant high-quality introductions in the last 15 months than in any previous 15-month period." [...] "The proof is always in the pudding: I look at the Spectre x360, the Elite X3 and other devices -- and it's not just new devices, but also the quality of the new devices; being able to have a partnership with B&O and thinking about a new computing experience. On the print side, it's the same thing: in September we announced our single biggest rollout ever, with a set of 16 A3 multifunction devices starting in a couple of months and rolling out over the course of the year. I don't think that happens unless you have separation, because then you've got a management team and a board, and a group of employees, that are just laser-focused on driving against that."
" we're a technology company, and innovation is our lifeblood"
That was true of HP a long time ago.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Americans won't pay for quality anymore. They gladly buy the cheapest chinese garbage available while lamenting the offshoring of all of their own jobs. You can't fix stupid.
Top level exec says things are going great and CEO's moves were right.
And if it's a $50 laser printer, undoubtedly it comes with a "starter" cartridge that will print a handful of pages, but you can buy a regular capacity cartridge for another $100. But don't worry about buying a second $100 cartridge because the printer won't last that long.