Access to an Unparalleled Knowledge-base of Practical Innovations
In survey after survey, innovation rises to the top of the list of CxO priorities. They are united in their belief that innovation can give them a competitive advantage and propel success. However, innovation means different things to different people. At HP, an HP company, it means one thing – it's about discovering new ideas and new ways for you to achieve the outcomes that you desire. Innovation is personal. What's new and breakthrough to you may be tried-and-true to someone else. Innovation doesn't have to be new. One of the best ways to innovate and succeed is by leveraging and building upon existing services, capabilities and investments.
Related Thought Leadership
HP has a consistent and connected global approach to delivering Innovation and it starts by learning more about a client's business. Through our Innovation Agenda, a formal client partnership, we have a continuous dialogue to focus on delivering innovation that meets their needs. By learning more about a client's business, HP can plan with the client to anticipate future trends and implement innovative approaches that will keep the client ahead of the game.
Over the years, HP has successfully brought new ideas and new ways of doing things to the thousands and thousands of clients we serve across a wide spectrum of industry segments. While each client has unique challenges, we look at the innovative approaches we've successfully implemented in one area and see if we can leverage that innovation to help another client quickly meet their current challenge. We help clients quickly achieve better outcomes by collectively focusing both HP's and our Agility Alliance partners' deep industry knowledge; the innovative best practices of thousands of implementations as well as the most innovative world-class capabilities and services available from HP. HP provides clients with access to an unparalleled knowledge-base of practical innovations that work in accelerating the speed of success.
These are exciting times for innovation at HP. We are supported by HP's annual technology research budget, one of the largest, most focused R&D budgets in the industry. In addition, we have access to HP Labs and a new line of thinking we can apply to your needs.
In good and in bad times, new ideas, processes and products have always driven success. However, history has shown there is a strong correlation between economic challenges and innovation. A number of innovative companies were born during economic declines – Adobe Systems (the early 1980s recession), Texas Instruments (Great Depression), Skype (early 2000s recession), Microsoft (mid-1970s stock market crash) and the Hewlett-Packard Company (Great Depression).
Transformational Government Leadership, Powered by Innovation
Business is not the only fertile ground for innovation. Government priorities are being shaped by the economic downturn. Factors shaping those priorities include:
- Rising unemployment
- Budget pressures
- Falling revenues; rising entitlement costs
- Rising citizen expectations
- Speed of government actions
- Energy price and security
According to Suparno Banerjee, Vice President, Global Government Industry, HP, there's a perfect storm driving transformation in government today and innovation is key.
“Governments can weather this storm,” he says, “and come through stronger through transformational leadership powered by innovation and technology.”
HP believes it is uniquely positioned to help government find new ways to drive better outcomes. HP delivers access to an unparalleled knowledge-base of practical innovations to governments. HP can bring not only knowledge of what worked in one area of government to another, but also what worked for some of the most successful corporations across the planet.
For example, when the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Finance and Accounting Service needed to organize its stockpile of payment data and expedite payment processing, it's not surprising it turned to HP. We were able to draw upon our nearly 40 years of experience in providing consulting, business and information technology (IT) services to more than 200 financial institutions around the world. By reengineering DFAS' business processes with automated workflows, HP has virtually eliminated paper-clogged, labor-intensive financial processes and helped generate cost savings for the Department of Defense.
Leveraging Proven Business Technology for Enhanced Government Services
The City of Anaheim, California, whose public safety agencies operated relatively autonomously, needed to improve information sharing to accelerate its response to local emergencies. City officials envisioned a solution that would provide an integrated view of critical citywide operations and wanted to leverage its current IT investment to achieve this goal.
HP assembled a team of experts to define, develop and deliver a state-of-the-art virtual emergency management solution. Rather than building a costly and complex new centralized database, HP fulfilled the city's mission of creating the most cost-effective system by displaying the content of several critical departments' databases, as well as existing data repositories citywide, through a single Web-based interface. This live, online system diminishes reliance on a central, brick-and-mortar emergency operations center.
“Although this type of technology had been available in the corporate world, especially in finance and media, no one had used it to manage emergency response,” said Suparno Banerjee. “This is a great example of HP's innovation at work. We were able to leverage a proven technology from business to drive better response time for emergencies in the City of Anaheim.”
New Ways of Bundling Services for Better Outcomes
Innovation at HP is not only about connecting the dots between government agencies and business. It's about new ways of bundling our proven services that deliver greater value to government agencies.
When Belgium's Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) decided to modernize its livestock tracking and monitoring system, it turned to HP. The agency set out in search of a modern, centralized application that would enhance visibility into meat production processes across Belgium and integrate business critical processes in a way that mirrors the integration within FASFC. What's more, the agency wanted 24/7 availability and highly responsive, round-the-clock support for the system. HP delivered a centralized, integrated Web solution that provides a complete picture of animal health from the farm all the way to the dining table.
“While we never before implemented a solution to better monitor meat safety, animal health and epidemics at different stages of the food chain, we were able to look across our entire portfolio and bundle services that enabled us to be the only IT provider that could offer Belgium's FASFC application development expertise and hosting services in one comprehensive solution,” said Banerjee. “This sharing and combining of ideas led to a solution that lets Belgian consumers be confident that what he or she eats is not only safe, but also meets the highest standards of quality.”
HP is a global organization and we hold a global view of issues our government clients are facing. We can deliver insights into what a client is likely to face. Also, we keep a close eye on trends and emerging technologies to give our clients thought leadership in these areas.
All across HP, we are hard at work discovering new ideas and new ways for clients to achieve their outcomes and achieve mission success.