Forbes: HP needs to enhance business cohesion and challenge the future

Introduction: Forbes August 18 published an analysis of the article said that HP is facing the problem of internal cohesion. The company will close the Palm OS business and the PC business is in trouble, and the print business has failed to provide enough financial support for the company's changes.　　CEO Lee Ai's cloud planning is frustrated and he faces many challenges in the future. The following is an overview of the article: Hewlett-Packard CEO Lee Ai has stated the difficulties facing the Company: Palm OS products have failed and are about to be discarded; if the PC business is to continue, it needs to be spun off, sold or marginalized;　　The print business has been unable to provide sufficient financial support; The company's transformation takes a long time and creates a lot of confusion. Apotheker also shied away from another important issue: the possibility of mass layoffs. Other messages have already signaled that the PC business buyer will not be willing to increase the number of employees except to close palm, causing the workers to work at a certain level.　　In addition, shutting down the Web operating system will cause employees to lose their jobs. It is noteworthy that Lee Ai may be acting on the board's intention, but the situation has deteriorated far beyond expectations. In many cases, the challenge for HP's transformation is that the company may lose cohesion at a time of metabolism.　　The transition will change the company's financial model, and Wall Street investors don't like the uncertainty of the company's future. Li Ai mentioned several reasons for the adverse situation. Consumers are abandoning PCs to Tablet PCs, so companies need to move quickly to accommodate the shift. In addition, HP had planned to challenge Apple and Google's operating systems through Palm OS products, but the market refused to accept the product, destroying HP's blueprint for providing consumer/enterprise, Mobile/cloud integrated technology products, and destroying the developer community built around the product.　　In the end, HP may have to change the resource deployment of back-end businesses, such as servers, storage, and management software. The tsunami in Japan has affected the supply and sales of HP's printer business, making HP's situation even worse. In addition, Oracle also announced in March that it no longer developed software for HP's itanium® server, which has hit HP again.　　Moreover, Apotheker wants to vigorously develop a service-oriented business, but the implementation of the plan will take time. The challenge, Apotheker said in a public statement in March that he intended to build HP into a cloud-based service company with a solid analytical software base. Hewlett-Packard then bought Vertica, but this is not enough to bring the company a clear competitive advantage. At the time, Apotheker said it would embark on a further large-scale acquisition, followed by the news of HP's 11 billion dollar takeover of Autonomy, which has a leading market position and a large customer base. Apotheker believes the two sides have a synergistic effect. Once HP's own service sales team issues are resolved, the two sides will be able to get closer together, butIn this regard, HP still has a long way to go. The split PC business is another important challenge for HP, and there are similar problems with Dell. HP's executive Committee has people from the PC and printer business, and their positions are different, and the final decision is not easy. PCs and printers are different businesses of HP, but in the retail market the two products are closely linked. One of the problems that Mr Lee has to address is how to balance the two businesses and make their interests appear consistent.　　The Touchpad product development has been hampered in part because HP seems to want it to be a brand new product, unrelated to the PC business, but ultimately failed. Lee Ai's vision is to enhance the cohesion of HP's business, he envisioned the blueprint is this: many small mobile and desktop equipment in the corner of the world, these devices and a core system to stay connected. The core system provides huge computing, data storage, data analysis and communication functions, and runs in real time. Apotheker wants HP to play an important role, but his plans seem to have been frustrated after the loss of the Web operating system and PC business. The challenge for the future will be whether HP can maintain the cohesion of its core business. Leisurely)