2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Hewlett-Packard: Planet-Wide Patterns in the Company’s Technology Tapestry
Published in: Managing Global Innovation
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In March of 1999, Hewlett-Packard announced the strategic realignment of the company into two independent companies. These have been named, Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard. The then president and CEO, Lewis Platt, said “We are taking this action to sharpen the strategic focus of our businesses, improve their agility and increase their responsiveness to customers and partners. We are creating two distinct and strategically focused enterprises, one focused on the measurement businesses, the other on the computing and imaging businesses.”