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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. It got bigger by inventing new test and measurement equipment and it hired people who knew how to execute that strategy. For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static.