The two agreed to meet again, this time at a restaurant at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, where she put on the hard sell. Once I said to him that there was no one else who could do the job, he agreed. Speaking of turnarounds, Hackborn says he's heartened by HP's improved performance of late. He believes the company is as strong as ever in printers, and he likes the new e-services Net strategy, which pulls together a variety of technologies from HP and outside partners to help corporations quickly develop new offerings on the Web. But he says there's far more to do.
Strategy is the easy part.
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