1994 – MEASURE Magazine

January-February 1994 TMO’s Turnaround

  • Ned Barnholt, general manager and vice president of HP’s oldest business, Test & Measurement Organization (TMO), transforms it to capitalize on growing communications industry; TMO grew 4 percent last year in difficult economy. 4-7
  • John Minck discusses TMO history, Stanford Park Division. 8-9
  • Open Line employee survey measures opinions and attitudes; Lew Platt’s goal is to reassert HP’s leadership as an “employer of choice.” 10-13
  • New products include HP OmniBook, HP 3D capillary electrophoresis; Openview network management software; X stations; DeskJet 1200 printers; HLMA-CP00 LED lamp; SS7 network monitoring system; VidJet printer; 75000 broadband network test system; 8300 digital IC test system; DesignJet 650C plotter. 14-17
  • Organization chart. (insert)
  • Indiana University Sports Medicine Drug Testing Lab uses HP analytical equipment. 18-19
  • Pros and cons of employee drug testing. 20-21
  • HP-5LX palmtop computer runs Mirical Corp.’s Personal Food Analyst software. 22-23
  • HP equipment inside Biosphere 2. 24-25
  • Lew Platt discusses President’s Quality Award; photo celebrating the sale of 20 millionth printer with Dick Hackborn and Rick Belluzzo at COMDEX computer show in Las Vegas. 27
  • Women in Europe conference workshops tackle tough issues such as glass door, career development, balancing work and family. 28
  • Building 40 demolished, Cupertino, Calif., former home of Data Systems Division. 28
  • Palo Alto board game “AltoOpoly” includes HP. 29
  • HP donates $2.65 million in cash and equipment to MIT Media Lab. 29
  • HP printers donated to Smithsonian Computers, Information and Society Collection. 29
  • HP cuts chemical releases in U.S. by 24 percent from 1991-92. 31

March-April 1994 HP Challenges the Competition

  • HP’s top competitors in each of its major businesses include Canon, Lexmark, Compaq, IBM, Sun, DEC, Spacelabs Medical, Emtek Healthcare Systems, Acuson, Toshiba, NEC, AT&T, Tektronix, Advantest, Teradyne, Perkin Elmer, Thermo Instrument Systems, Millipore; profiles of competitor companies are listed. 4-11
  • Barney Oliver, HP technology chief, contributes to NASA Ames Research Center’s Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. 12-14
  • HP Auckland, New Zealand, orders top $30 million. 15-17
  • Lawrence Lowe, from HP division in Scotland, helps develop the telecommunications infrastructure in China. 18-19
  • President’s Quality Award winners announced. 20-21
  • Swiss banking industry upgrades with HP workstations. 22-23
  • United Dairy Farmers (UDF), a 215-unit convenience store chain headquartered in Cincinnati, uses HP PCs. 24-25
  • HP UK employee adopts child with help of HP Brazil network. 28
  • Lew Platt reviews 1993, an “exhilarating and exhausting” year. 29
  • 78-foot root removed from HP Sunnyvale storm drain. 30
  • Bob Wayman, executive vice president, quote about predicting the future. 30
  • Effects on HP of the Jan. 17 Los Angeles earthquake. 31
  • HP Labs Science Center formed at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa Israel. 31
  • First-quarter net revenue up 24 percent, earnings up 41. 31
  • HP acquires Biomolecular Separations, Inc. and forms joint venture with Taligent; agreements with Pacific Telesis, Telecommunications, Inc., Bell SYGMA, Nokia Telecommunications. 31

May-June 1994 School Days HP Style

  • Online services of electronic superhighway are discussed, including e-mail, Internet, business tools. 4-7
  • HP’s electronic mail link has traffic of 5 million messages a year. 8-9
  • Singapore’s technological vision as “Intelligent Island” positions itself to become one of first countries to establish nationwide information infrastructure. 10-12
  • HP-Zurich’s Stephan Bollinger stars in “Space Dream,” musical. 13-15
  • Santa Rosa school district establishes worksite grade school at HP Santa Rosa, Calif. 16-19
  • Former employee Greg Piburn contrasts employees and consultants and the consultant’s mindset. 20-21
  • Employee statistical profile of 96,000 HP people; 59,000 in U.S. and Canada, 20,000 in Europe, 14,600 in Asia and 2500 in Latin America. 22-23
  • HP Vietnamese-American reflects on the Vietnamese war, embargoes and doing business in Vietnam. 24
  • Lew Platt discusses employment security, that it’s an HP objective, not a guarantee. 26-27
  • HP hosts African-American Student’s Day for 125 high school students from San Jose. (diversity) 28
  • Meaning of HP “overtaking” DEC is mistranslated to “takeover” in Russian article. 28
  • Jim Hall of Boise, Idaho, Printer Division wins “Design News” annual quality award for LaserJet printer. 29

July-August 1994 The Sweet Smell of Success

  • YHP, HP’s Japanese subsidiary, thrives despite downturn in Japan’s economy. 4-8
  • Mass Storage Group (MSG) “world-beating” products include tape, disk drives, optical products; storage products becoming more visible; MSG sells to all major manufacturers and resellers. 9-11
  • Gary Eichhorn, vice president of Workstation Systems Group, discusses strategy. 12-14
  • HP provides analytical products at France’s Advanced Institute for Perfume, Cosmetics and Food Flavoring. 15
  • HP interactive television products include remote-control devices and set-top boxes that consumers use to interact with televisions. 18-20
  • Medical graduates receive HP’s “Top Grad” award and HP Rappaport-Sprague stethoscope. 21
  • HP’s Phil Yastrow builds water-skiing lakes. 22-24
  • Chris Huggins discusses contractors versus employees in response to Lew Platt’s article (Measure, May-June, 1994) about job security. 26
  • Lew Platt discusses 1994 business fundamentals: 1. Customer satisfaction, 2. Total Quality Management, 3. Software product quality, 4. Hardware product quality, 5. ISO 90006. U.S. minority-business program, 7.
  • Product-generation process; performance reviews. 9
  • Injury/illness prevention. 10
  • Product stewardship, Worldwide Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) audits. 27-28
  • HP participates in second annual “Take Our Daughters to Work Day.” 29
  • Eastern Professional Women’s Conference meets in Andover, Mass. 29
  • Jim White works with disabled students in computer-aided design class. 31
  • Second-quarter revenue up 23 percent, orders up 19. 30
  • HP and Intel have joint R&D project. 31
  • HP acquires CaLan Inc., leading supplier of cable TV test, measurement and monitoring systems. 31
  • HP couple marries in Safeway supermarket. 31

September-October 1994 When the Office Hits the Road

  • HP workplace changes regarding telecommuting; typical HP telecommuter is described; flexible office situation almost always improves productivity; other benefits listed along with new terminology and must-have home office equipment. 4-8
  • Test and measurement field engineers support “maquiladoras” customers (factories that line the Mexican border). 9-11
  • Annual report explained: financial performance, accounting terms, order, sale, ROA (return on assets), earnings, cost of goods sold, cost of sales, operating expenses, operating profit, net profit. 12-13
  • HP Canada opened its first office in Montreal, Quebec, in 1961; now has 27 sites in Canada. 14-17
  • TestBook, a custom instrument from Integrated Systems Division, accelerates vehicle repairs, automobile test. 18-20
  • San Diego Division’s manager Raj Kirpalani has trust and respect of coworkers. 21-23
  • Boise employee Jim Haberkorn talks about losing his job to offshoring. 24-25
  • Lew Platt discusses avoiding complacency, open communications, investment in long term R&D. 27
  • HP Italy celebrates 10th anniversary of InkJet and LaserJet products and 10 millionth sale of each with product. 28
  • Asian Business magazine carries HP cover every issue. 28
  • Research Library celebrates more than 40 years of service. 29
  • HP ranks 19 in Fortune 500 list (460 in 1962). 29
  • HP runner Brian Purcell competes in marathon in Japan. 30
  • HP McMinnville’s Nancy Forman saves a fellow airline passenger. 31
  • New products include 200LX, OmniBook 530, HP G2025A, Fibre channel/9000 network. 31
  • HPA2882A flat panel display wins design awards. 31

November-December 1994 A Nice Place for a Bit of a Giggle

  • Computer Systems Organization (CSO) strives to improve its order-fulfillment record; costs reduced 30 percent, cycle time reduced from 60 to 20 days. 4-8
  • Boddington Group, a UK brewery, uses HP 9000 business computer and open-systems platform. 9-11
  • HP no longer a place where every division is a self-contained mini-company; HP outsourcing manufacturing (core competencies). (offshoring) 12-14
  • Caledonian MacBrayne, a Scottish car and passenger ferry company, uses HP 3000 computer system. 15-19
  • HP CEO “Hoshin” goals for 1995 include focus on consistent financial performance, solving customer problems and reasserting HP’s leadership as the best place to work. 20
  • Midwestern scavenger finds functional 1520A patient monitoring device and arranges donation of HP medical equipment to Slovakia. 21
  • Al Dossola, head of HP Credit Union since its beginning in 1969, retires after 25 years. 22-23
  • SKD Spokane (Washington) Division transitions from defense to commercial businesses. 24
  • President Lew Platt discusses CEO “Hoshin” goals. 26-27
  • Drexel University engineering lab uses HP equipment. 28
  • Camera lost in Hachioji, Japan, returned to owner. 28
  • Synergies video shows HP technologies and equipment in future. 29
  • Executive car wax gives proceeds to United Way. 29