Few people in New Orleans believe the November contest in which Democrat Mary Landrieu defeated Jenkins by 5, 788 votes was, in its execution, a model of civic propriety.

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Execution encompasses team expertise, business model, timing, product design, company and product strategy, market strategy, as well as engineering .

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Though the model is working as well as it can, the execution has some unintended consequences.

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Hurd had taken HP to the biggest tech company in the world, an arguable contender against both IBM and Cisco, and a model for the rest of the industry about the right way to do mergers and carry out efficient execution.

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