In that connection, this Kat recently met an acquaintance, who has a long-time connection with the company. Over a cup of coffee, this Kat innocently asked: “So which HP company do you now work for. And who is running the company”? My acquaintance fumbled his response to both questions, before ultimately coming up with the correct answers. As Kat readers may be aware, the former Hewlett-Packard Company has split into two separate companies. The then existing company changed its name to HP Inc. and retained the company’s personal computer and legacy business (with its ticker remaining HPQ), while a new company was created, called Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (with its ticker symbol “HPE”) and consisting of four divisions—Enterprise Group, Services, and Software and Financial Services. In May 2016, it was announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise would sell its Enterprise Services division to Computer Sciences Corporation. This transaction is to be completed by March 2017; in the meantime, it does not appear that a name has been chosen for this new company.
So what we have is that the existing company has discarded the name Hewlett-Packard Company in favor of HP Inc. (“HP” being a name and mark long associated with the company). The second company is called Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. (Kat readers will carefully note that the hyphen between Hewlett and Packard has been discarded, and its full presentation, it also includes a logo in the outline form of a green rectangle.) The two companies still both roughly share the Hewlett-Packard nomenclature history.
For sure, there may have been a bit of luck involved, since one of the terms of the arbitration award in the dispute between the two companies was that the latter could no longer use the Andersen name—leading to Accenture. But it also points to the risk in sharing a common name, when the two entities are separate and independent, and each goes off in its own business direction. One wonders how Andersen Consulting would have played out if it had retained the name Andersen as the accounting company was being dragged through the mud of Enron.
Regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (or HP or HPE or whatever), the issue is in no way connected to negative spill-overs, such as Enron, but rather what kind of corporate identities are being created. Truth be told, trying to keep straight the two companies by name and fields of activity is a constant challenge. One gets the sense that, at least for the moment, those concerned at the two companies seem to want a bit of confusion in their identities. Consider the following, which appears on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website--
“Hewlett Packard has been in the innovation business for more than 75 years. Our vast intellectual property portfolio and global research and development capabilities are part of an innovation roadmap designed to help organizations of all sizes – from global enterprises to local startups – transition from traditional technology platforms to the IT systems of the future.”Even after the split, what seems most important is that the two companies both continue to recall their common Hewlett Packard heritage, in haec verba. Whether this is an effective naming strategy in the longer term will remain to be seen.
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