Press Release
Hewlett-Packard Executive and President of Effective Execution, Inc.
Publish Article on Standardization
Houston, Texas, January 19, 2004 – Effective
Execution, Inc. announced today that an article
submitted by Ravi Kathuria, President of Effective
Execution and Connie M. Spiess, Vice President,
Supply Chain Integrated Solutions, Worldwide
Operations at HP has been accepted and published by
the Houston Business Journal in its January 16th
issue.
The article titled, "Increasing competitive
advantage by standardizing critical
business-processes across the enterprise," focuses
on the topic of reducing business complexity.
Standardizing processes and IT systems across
business-units simplifies operations. Simpler
operations result in increased cost-efficiency,
shorter operational-cycle times and increased
market-place agility which all lead to increased
competitive advantage. The article is available
on-line at www.cohegic.com/articles.htm
and in the Houston Business Journal's web archives.
"As an organization grows large the processes and
systems developed in different business units begin
to diverge," stated Ravi Kathuria. "Intense external
competition and pressure to perform often leads
business units to focus more on their immediate
needs and less on the overall needs of the
corporation. As a result the corporation as a whole
struggles to create more value than the sum of its
parts."
About Effective Execution, Inc.
Effective Execution, Inc. is a management consulting firm focused on
helping clients enhance business productivity by improving their
organization's ability to execute. It helps clients
crystallize their mission, vision and strategic principles; implement
management process such as the strategy execution and sales execution
processes; analyze and design work processes; design the organization
structure, roles and responsibilities and develop a high-performance
culture.
About Hewlett Packard Company (HP)
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company's
solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices,
global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and
small and medium business. Revenues were $73.1 billion for the fiscal
year that ended October 31, 2003.
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