Last week I was going through the merger which happened, or atleast was suppose to happen, between HP and EDS. Mark Hurd - CEO of HP has an amazing idea of trying to automate things and have un-manned sites. Which I feel is quite a different way of thinking. People are always the real resources - not machines? Otherwise we would have all lived in a (Terminator 3 - The Rise of the Machines) kind of a world. The reason I am writng is not weather HP merges or acquires EDS? It is the theory of automation to reduce cost. Their is no real relation in terms of cost between humanbeings and machines.
If Mark feels that merging with EDS will give him un-manned data centers, which he will replace people in data centers with HP hardware and technology? He is in for a big surprise.
Because by the time, this deal closes good people from EDS wil already have been long gone.
And beside all this anyways, you really cannot expect the same efficiency from a machine, which a humanbeing is expected to deliver.
Even machines break down Mark? Just like humanbeing fall ill.
Your cost cutting strategy does not correctly fall in place here. I feel Mark needs to come down to India to learn some good man management skills. The old grand father style management, where to cut cost you lay off people is outdated these days. We have much better ways to increase profits, reduce operational cost, without cutting jobs and laying off people, and for certainly not replacing machines in the place of humanbeings.
I mean one fine day, what is Mark going to do? Replace himself with HP Hardware and Technology? Does HP even have efficient hardware and technology to replace Mark himself? Anyways we wish Mark and his team the very best in their endeavours to automate and make everything at HP unmanned in order to cut cost.
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