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HP CEO Uses a Blackberry and not HP device?
mavenmapper.blogspot.com — Maybe consumers and investors don't care about corporate scandals and privacy. Do they care about loyalty? Can it be that evidence before Congress shows that the CEO of Hewlett Packard is unloyal to his own company and brand and prefers a competitor's product?
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- brettbum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you were the CEO of HP, would you use a Blackberry or would you use a mobile ipaq????
What if the HP board through in a private jet for your personal enjoyment? :) - ElDookey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Years ago I visited the IBM location in RTP and was shocked to see the Big Blue employees using NCR micro-channel machines and not those made by IBM. Now these were pre-Gerstner days, and IBM was set up in 3 separate LOBs. When Mr. Akers visited the site, and was equally shocked, the response from the employees was even more alarming. They bought NCR machines because they could not afford the IBM micro-channel products.
I don't think this is the case here. Simply put, Hurd is just merely another CEO who is nothing more than a mercenary. Brand loyalty? Heck he probably didn't even use NCR products back at his old stomping grounds. There is so much pressure from the Stockholders, Board, press, Channel and others that he probably uses what he is comfortable with and not taken the time to "eat his own dog food". Of course perception is relevant to your perch, and I am sure those hard working HP folks trying to R &D, market, sell, and support the IPAQs really appreciate the Grand Poobah using a competitor's product.
I have been fortunate to work for leaders that insisted on using our own products, even if they were not the industry leaders, because that is how he and his executive peers got first hand experience of what we were developing and peddling. What a novel idea? Have a CEO tuned to what the consumer sees, smells and tastes from your products. - brettbum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Back when Motorola wasn't cool, shortly after the internet bubble burst, I experienced a similar phenomena.
There were many Motorolan's that weren't buying Motorola cell phones because they were too expensive. Motorola gave some employees 2-way pagers back then, which was kind of a clique within the company. (Motorola was still switching over from being a pager company to a cellular company.)
There were several of the business leaders at the time in that threw a bit of a fit whenever they toured a facillity or plant and saw the rank and files carrying Nokia phones around on their hip. Motorola didn't want to fight it out with Nokia on price and enter the race to the bottom.
However, back then they weren't 'cool' like they are today and so they didn't really have the early adopters or trend setters taking up their products either.
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