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HP to buy 3Com for $2.7 billion| Reuters

Hewlett-Packard Co struck a deal to buy network equipment maker 3Com Corp for $2.7 billion to step up competition against Cisco Systems Inc and expand into China.

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Adam Hartung at Forbes: Why The Pursuit Of Innovation Usually Fails

Cutting costs faster than revenues decline is no prescription for long-term success. It is, rather, as Gary Hamel, the author of The Future of Management, puts it, "management inertia." Businesses are on a track that is easy to follow but ultimately self-destructive.

The answer seems to be innovation. Yet few businesses are any good at innovation. For all their brainstorming exercises and "open innovation" programs, they mostly just come up with reformulations of existing products, new pricing plans and basic updates--the same old things just a little cheaper, faster or better.

Full Adam Hartung's article for Forbes, here. 

 

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