Here are my predictions:
3 months - significant restructuring to meet q4 reduction goals as highlighted in q3 earnings call. Most middle management, project managers, escalation resources are done away with to move us more toward a pyramid instead of a diamond. Lots of use of contractors, partners, and outsourced call centers for customer facing positions.
6 months - HPE spins off it's low end server market to focus on acquisition niches fetching higher margin and more skill required to produce desired results. 3par, nimble, SGI, Aruba will be incorporated in to a consulting platform for managing customers who don't want to focus on IT and are glad to pay for solutions instead of just bare hardware.
1 year - layoffs reduce our staff down 10-15%. Most offices are reduced, leased, rented out. Asset liabilities are reduced and we are slimmed down to prepare for a major purchase. If we have 20,000 employees at this point I would be surprised.
2+ years - A quiet, slow death similar to Sears. Imation is a better example. You know, the folks who make your new VCR tapes in 2017. Talk about a dinosaur. We will become the new Imation. We hold major cash and large real estate assets. We have many patents and IP but we bring little value to the market any more compared to the past. We bleed ourselves dry trying to hold on. Either we dramatically change what we do and how we do it or we die as a company.
Originally posted by @OTHRt0n-gggk, bumped into a thread for being - unfortunately - on point.