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	Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Pouching Talents as a source of Competitive Advantage   (techdrivenlife) One of the most difficult aspects of competition is the luring of talents.  This is especially very true in the tech industry.  In fact, it is almost common practice.  In our country, we deal with Microsoft people that came from HP, IBM, Oracle, and SAP.  We deal with IBM people that came from HP, Microsoft, and Cisco.  The first Cisco GM here used to come from IBM, then the next one came from Microsoft, the present one came from HP.  HP's GM came from IBM.  The IBM PC group's GM used to come from Sun, and the present one comes from HP/Compaq. At any rate, little over a week ago, Dell lured away HP's Proliant Boss.  Today, it is announced that HP hired away Dell's CIO. There just might be something lurking with Mark Hurd's (HP's CEO) decision there.  The new HP tech guru, Randy Mott, used to be Walmart's CIO when he bought Teradata, a data warehousing software that is said to be a key to Walmart's supply chain.  When Randy moved to Dell, he also convinced Dell to get Teradata, which is now being sold by NCR, Mark Hurds' previous employer. Far more than Mark hiring away his biggest customer before, it is now probably expected that HP will be implementing Teradata very soon for its own supply chain needs.  HP's plan of course, is obvious:  to out-dell Dell.   This is a lament.  Nowhere in the industry than in ICT where pouching is so rampant. Where is Innovation?   8:24:55 PM     comment []   trackback []