HP CEO Whitman: Focus on cloud computing, security, and big data

Hewlett-Packard's president and chief executive, Whitman, has been on her first trip to China since taking office and has visited Shanghai, Chongqing and Beijing in just a few days. During his stay in Beijing, Whitman was interviewed by our correspondent and introduced the development strategy of Hewlett-Packard and its development strategies in China.

Whitman to reporters the feeling is frank and frank, this impression of the emergence of her in the interview soon after the initiative to the reporter mentioned Hewlett-Packard Company in recent years frequent high-level personnel changes.

"In recent years, HP has undergone too many, too frequent changes in CEO and board levels, and it is now up to us to get HP out of these dramatic changes by working hard to get people to see HP through its products and services." Whitman told reporters that frequent management changes have led to many criticisms of HP's board of directors.

To change the situation, last September, when she took office, she made a decisive decision to keep the HP personal computer (PC) business and announced the merger of HP's PC and printer business units in March this year. Ms. Whitman said the PC business remained important for HP: keeping the PC business ensured that HP maintained a higher level of return on capital investment; developing and retaining the PC business helps supply chains like servers and storage devices; This is also important for HP's brand image. Ms. Whitman said she would come to China again soon to join the launch of HP's next-generation PC products in Shanghai. On the tablet side, HP is about to launch a tablet based on the WINDOWS8 operating system and is considering a tablet based on an Android operating system.

On a deeper level, Whitman's 7-month-long series of moves reflects her position on HP's future development. "After I took office, I elaborated the HP Strategy version 1.0. First, HP is still a hardware-focused company. We have about 70% of our business revenue coming from hardware devices like servers, storage devices, network devices, PC products, and print products. Second, Hewlett-Packard also has its own software business, mainly to solve HP customers the most challenging issues. At the same time, HP also has a service business, proposing a complete solution to meet customer needs. "In these major changes, HP is determined to continue to play a leading role in 3 areas, including cloud computing, security and large data and information analysis," Whitman said.

"If you tell us in a word what HP is doing in the company, how do you answer?" "In the face of this reporter's question, Whitman answered without hesitation:" Our company is to let technology for customers. She said that at present Two-thirds of HP's business is enterprise customers, including large enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises and government departments, corporate customers are HP's focus.

Commenting on the trip to China, Whitman was interested in revealing her mother's influence on her, "she has been to China 86 times." Throughout my career, she has repeatedly told me to focus on China because the future is in China. "I keep urging our teams to tailor products to the Chinese market in all HP's product lines, from PCs to printers, servers and network devices." At the same time, we will also increase the HP in China's market brand building investment and team building. In addition to this, HP in China will also actively participate in the relevant disaster relief, disaster mitigation work, attaches great importance to and fully fulfill the corporate social responsibility. Whitman told reporters that the visit to China is an important part of the Chongqing Global Printing and Imaging equipment manufacturing base signing ceremony.

Whitman also said that the recent restructuring of the HP Business unit will not affect China, "we will not lay off staff in China, because China is a growing market for HP, we will further investment in China, in the next step to increase the number of people in China."

On the future of HP, Whitman said, we are committed to a balance between profitability and long-term strategy in order to gradually increase profits in the long run and, most importantly, to invest in the future of HP. "Next year HP is celebrating its 75 anniversary, and my job is to lay the groundwork for HP's next 75 years of development," he said. ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)