Meg Whitman, Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard

Published: Aug. 31, 2015, 9 a.m.

In this interview, Meg Whitman, Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard, discusses World Class IT principle 1, People, principle 2, Infrastructure, and principle 5, External Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

  • The progress made thus far in splitting HP into Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc.
  • How the sequencing of the split was envisioned
  • How she plans on splitting her time between the two new companies
  • The synergies anticipated between the two new organizations
  • How HP, as an acquirer of businesses, considers today’s large technology company valuations
  • The process of identifying future partners and acquisition targets for HP
  • The paucity of women in technology and her opinion on how this has progressed in Silicon Valley
  • Her career path from traditional business into technology at eBay and HP
  • What she’s taken from her political experience running for governor of California, and how that’s affected her professional career since then
  • Eye on the Trends: Enterprise technology change (versus to consumer technology change), Cloud, Hybrid Datacenter, automation and monitoring, the business model shift from capital expenses to operating expenses
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