Does HP offer a lesson for government IT?

Opinion
Dec 1, 20081 min

HP recently held a conference to promote the idea that its customers should transform IT just like it did. Apparently, this strategy is centered around blowing up your whole IT organization at once and rebuilding it from scratch. Information Week rightly doubts that many enterprises other than IT equipment manufactures will follow HP’s lead.

But the government tends to operate on a megaproject basis. Maybe this is a good model for what they should be doing. Certainly major changes are needed …