Under Fiorina HP rested on three pillars known as the product divisions (printers, PCs, servers).

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It had national organisations (NOs) and product divisions (PDs), and for a while they operated successfully as a network.

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Instead of four product divisions, two would focus on customers (business and consumer) and two on technology (computers and printers).

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This would mean separating the insurance interests from the financial product divisions.

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Almost every day he was getting calls from divisions breaking bad news that their wares were losing product reviews at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Kmart and Target.

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But Sony's own divisions are at odds over how this future will take shape and which Sony product line--PlayStation, TV, Vaio--should occupy the central role.

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Business divisions like the film studio, the stuffed-animal division and publishing have always made product decisions independently without consulting one another.

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