The Folks At Procter & Gamble Co. would rather create great consumer goods than run big computer operations. So last summer, p&G executives sifted through six feet of proposals before handing over the management of their sprawling technology systems╚DPCs, servers, data storage, the works―to Hewlett-Packard Co. in a $3 billion megadeal. Add in contracts for office management, accounting, and human resources, and P&G will farm out more than $4 billion of work in coming years. The goal is simple: "To lower costs and create better service" by relying on information-technology experts, says Filippo Passerini, P&G's global business services officer.
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