Hewlett-Packard consolidation affects Vancouver operation
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| Memo to employees |
| Excerpts from a memo sent to HP employees today by Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of imaging and printing:
Why We Are Changing Our Organization
For the last year, I have spoken about the massive opportunity in front of IPG as it shifts from a printer to a printing company.
New Organizational Structure
This realignment is not just about doing things better. It’s about doing things differently to strengthen IPG for the future. The new structure is designed to achieve five objectives:
· enable our Print 2.0 strategy
· simplify our structure to reduce complexity and eliminate duplication
· improve customer focus and build new market capabilities
· establish clear accountability to execute our strategy and drive business results
· lower costs and reinvest in growth areas
The most significant change is the reduction of the number of global business units (GBUs) from five to three. These GBUs will have end-to-end accountability across hardware, software and supplies, and have a segment focus for delivering targeted customer solutions.
Graphics Solutions
Led by Michael Hoffmann, this business is responsible for driving leadership in targeted Graphics markets and serves as the value creation engine for future printing and imaging platforms. The organization includes Large Format Printing (Designjet, Scitex, ColorSpan, NUR), Large Format Supplies, WebPress Supplies, Indigo Printing, Specialty Printing Systems, Inkjet High-Speed Production Solutions (IHPS) and Light Production Solutions.
Inkjet and Web Solutions
Led by Stephen Nigro, this business is responsible for our consumer and SMB printing solutions (hardware, ink, media) as well developing our retail and web businesses. This group will consist of consumer inkjet hardware, SMB business inkjet hardware, retail publishing solutions, Snapfish, Logoworks, ink supplies, media and technology platform development.
LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions
Led by David Murphy, this business is responsible for LaserJet solutions (hardware, software and supplies) with focus on the enterprise segment. It includes LaserJet printers and supplies, Edgeline, Scanners, Enterprise Software solutions (Exstream Software, Web Jetadmin/Output Server), Managed Print Services (products and solutions) and Halo telepresence.
I know these changes can be disruptive and will require a tremendous amount of effort from all of us. However, I truly believe they will create more opportunity for HP and IPG. We will grow and win together. |
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
By COURTNEY SHERWOOD, Columbian Staff WriterHewlett-Packard, one of Clark County’s largest employers, told workers on Wednesday that it is streamlining and consolidating its Imaging and Printing Group.
The company plans to cut costs as it goes from five business units to three within Imaging and Printing, but the announcement Wednesday is not related to recent local layoffs or HP’s plans to sell and lease back its east Vancouver campus, according to spokesman Ryan Donovan.
“This is about aligning resources to go after growth markets aggressively,” Donovan said.
For the inkjet engineers and marketers who make up the vast majority of HP’s Vancouver workforce, that realignment has left them with a new boss in a larger, merged business unit, Inkjet and Web Solutions.
Heading the division will be Steve Nigro, a senior vice president based in Corvallis, Ore.
California-based Hatem Mostafa, head of the soon-to-be-dissolved Inkjet Systems business unit that oversaw Vancouver, will now report to Nigro.
Nigro’s elevation may bode well for HP’s Pacific Northwest inkjet operations, which are distributed across Corvallis, Vancouver and Boise, Idaho. All three sites have shed workers in recent years, fueling speculation that broader company plans to reduce HP’s real estate footprint might lead to one or more closures in the region.
By naming a Corvallis executive to lead the new Inkjet and Web Solutions group, HP seems to be signaling that at least one of its Northwest facilities is here to stay.
Under Nigro’s leadership, inkjet operations will be merged with retail and Web-based business groups, according to a memo sent to employees on Wednesday.
“This group will consist of consumer inkjet hardware, (small and medium) business inkjet hardware, retail publishing solutions, Snapfish, Logoworks, ink supplies, media and technology platform development,” Yomesh Joshi, executive vice president of imaging and printing, wrote in the memo.
Specifically how these changes at the corporate level will affect individual workers in Vancouver remains unclear.
“Imaging and Printing Group will look across the organization as it realigns its business to its new model and will rebalance resources as necessary in order to meet the needs of the new structure,” Donovan said, reading from a prepared statement.
The top-level business unit changes officially go into effect Aug. 1, but will likely take several more months to fully implement.
Courtney Sherwood covers Hewlett-Packard. Reach her at 360-735-4553 or courtney.sherwood@columbian.com. | 
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