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Wirt wrote:
The empirical evidence I offer for that statement are these relatively
recent
web pages (out of several hundred that are on the web), including two of
Carly Fiorina's:
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     http://www.hp.com/ghp/ceo/speeches/reinvent.html
     http://www.hp.com/ghp/ceo/speeches/invent.html

I recommend reading these speeches, and not just to gain insight into HP or
into what Carly is saying and thinking. There is some amazing material in
them, that can inspire us, material we can use.

I just wish I knew why this doesn't seem to apply to us. Look around, Carly,
and see which product your oldest and most loyal customers value most. We
are using the business system that HP invented, the one product that has
been around the longest. We never left this legacy of invention, and seek
only to preserve its spirit.

From Reinvent:
- I love this quote from John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid in their book "The
Social Life of Information." They say, "The way forward is paradoxically,
not to look ahead, but to look around."
- ... you may remember that Hewlett-Packard, in fact, invented the very
first information appliance. It was called the handheld calculator.
- At HP we are returning to our legacy of invention and preserving our
spirit of contribution.

From Invent:
- This infrastructure must be as available as oxygen, as reliable as the sun
and the moon. Now we have built this world in HP, so we know it is not a
figment of our imagination, we have built this world in our labs, we have
built a world where the infrastructure is always on, always available and
where everything is connected, everything is intelligent.
- And to reinvent ... means taking an invention that was created to meet a
past need ... and recreating it so that it meets a need in the present ...
and in the future.
- In HP, we talk about preserving the best, and reinventing the rest. And
what we preserve is our value, the things we most deeply believe in. Values
like trust, respect, integrity, collaboration and contribution to our
customer as well as to the community, in which we live and work.
- I am an optimist.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com