By November 2000, the main Hewlett-Packard Products Division (HPD) were to sell its Pavilion line of personal computers in Europe for almost five years. During this time, HPD entered and left Germany, fought in France and the UK, as well as significantly reorganized its European operations by half. Some in HP believes that the European operations is that HP should be. Others wondered why it was so hard, and whether the model of "operational excellence" adopted HPD, to compete in Europe was sufficient to rapidly changing market. "Hide
by David J. Arnold, Carin-Isabel Knoop Source : Harvard Business School 17 pages. Publication Date: November 21, 2000. Prod. #: 501053-PDF-ENG
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