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When Todd Bradley joined Hewlett-Packard Co. in June 2005 H-P's PC line was hardly profitable and many investors were suggesting that H-P get out of PCs altogether. At that time Dell was the top PC maker and leader in PC sales. Jump ahead two years to 2007 and now H-P is the world's leader of PC sales.
When Bradley arrived at H-P he found they were focusing on the wrong areas. H-P was spending its time fighting Dell where Dell was strong, in direct sales over the internet and phone. He soon decided after visiting many retailers and H-P factories, and hearing bad things about late deliveries and incomplete orders that H-P needed to focus on its strength, which was there presence in retail stores, where Dell had no presence at the time. Well that is until just recently when Dell announced it would be selling two desktops at more than 3,500 Wal-Mart Stores.
In order to revamp H-P Bradley laid out a 100-day road map to make sure H-P's deliveries to stores were reliable again.......

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