Rebuilding Core Competencies When a Company Splits 63Copyright © 2005, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without writtenTo my knowledge the expertise database was never maintained after about July- Owners were assigned Web pages and a general cleanup of the intranet in the new
HP was nearly complete by August 2000. To my knowledge the expertise database met
original expectations for getting the knowledge transfer complete but proved to be a low
priority after the split was complete. In addition, the computer industry took a huge
downturn in 2001, the stock price in both companies fell and layoffs were commonplace
throughout HP.
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(^1) These are used as representative examples, but may not be the actual unit names.
(^2) Portico is the HP search engine used on the company intranet.