Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

What is the value of having NPI, Product Engineering, and Quality under HPE domain. The Design/Development and Manufacturing are now done offshored at Inventec, Foxconn, and Wistron. HPE is just a Storefront.

HPE does not own any factories all of these have been sold off. So what do you need NPI, Product Engineering, adn Quality teams in HPE for. In addition the Core Competency in these groups have all been WFR;ed.

This another example of Senior Executive (John Grosso, Ex Loser Dell, Apple, ) playing politics consolidating power and getting PAID. In case you have noticed there are no Manufacturing Sites on the HPE Houston Campus.

The 1st rule of quality is that people / team / company that does the work should report manage the work and improve. This is just Recycling of BS that did not work at Dell or Apple and with the help of consultants rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic......

NPI PMs are still in Houston

Are you sure it is still in Houston? I know engineers that got WFR'd in Houston. They were working on new products...probably got moved to Taiwan.

NPI is still in Houston because they do not have the PM skills elsewhere, just a matter of time...

“Taiwan design center” what a joke. Outsourcing engineering to Taiwan will be the end of HPE. I’ve seen their work.

HPi and HPe can no longer afford to be in the Bay Area so it has to move somewhere cheap. Houston is cheap for a reason. Perfect place if you like living in western Louisiana. It's cheap too.

HPe's demise is coming soon so they might not even spend money in Houston other than shed real estate.

I was part of the Edgeline and Moonshot R&D group before my recent layoff. I was told that we were the last ones in Houston who were actually engineering and program managing new original products and that “Houston has become more of a store front” location.

Interestingly enough my friend at HP Inc. told me that their Houston location is massively expanding (and I believe it too since I’m currently interviewing them for an engineering position and the hiring manager said there are multiple req’s for both Taiwan and Houston). My friend said they are shrinking ironically at HP HQ.

One of the largest issues that HPE is seeing is really the lack of diversity in their portfolio. It seems like they are only building new generations of current products. That’s the only hardware that they provide. (I keep saying “they” because I no longer work there.) HPE is not innovating on grand scale compared to HP Inc. I don’t expect them to reform their products but surely more can be done rather than barely charging the aesthetics for their servers and providing newer SKUs of next gen CPUs for the server.

What dramatic changes can be made? That’s a tough question. Ask Edgeline and Moonshot group how they’re constantly making new and unique things, granted that their portfolio is smaller, but you’d be surprised at how different each product is from one another.

Poor Leadership under John Grosso (Ex Dell, Apple) resulted in empire building that added no value

Good question when (1) Engineering Development work has already moved to the HPE Taiwan Design Center and (2) Previously Product Design ODM some years ago to Inventec , Foxconn, and Wistron. When Design/Development was here in Houston and Compaq/HP/HPE had factories these functions had value add. Changing the groups names (Global Product Engineering, Global Ops, Global NPI, etc..) here in Houston does not result in a strategy. These groups do not have the Operations Engineering expertise.