HP's Remarkable Collaboration Journey: Sree Hameed Interviews HP's Curtis Suyematsu
Sree Hameed - February 23, 2006

The Interview

Outsourcing has made the term collaboration part of the everyday supply chain lingua franca. While collaboration promised a new era in supply chain, its evolution followed the typical hype-cycle of over-expectations and disenchantment. In fact, the term is so over-used today that vendors liberally apply it in their literature, users reflexively ignore it, and investors consider it "so yesterday." The road to adoption has not been easy. In fact, many projects failed to progress beyond the pilot stages as users ran into obstacles, both technology-related and softer issues like cultural barriers that have tempered the initial hype. But the rules have changed and companies have little choice but to make this work...