January-February 1993 New Ways to Work
- Measure magazine celebrates its 30th anniversary. 3
- Interview with Bob Wayman, executive vice president, discusses personnel and finance. 4-7
- Milton Moscowitz, business author, comments on HP and that it’s not the same company. 8-9
- Innovative solution to work demands highlights new ways to work, including self-managed work teams, alternative schedules, telecommuting, job-sharing. 10-14
- Customer Caterpillar Inc. uses HP 9000 and Test Development Environment to ensure quality. 13-17
- HP Singapore’s Karen Seet is hospice volunteer. 18-20
- New products include HP SONOS intravascular imaging; HP G100A protein sequencing, analytical; HP DeskJet 550C color and black white printer; HDMP-1000 gigabit-link silicon chip; HP LaserJet 4 printer; HP Vectra 486N PC desktop personal computer; HP 8133A 3-GHz pulse generator, measures integrated circuits and boards; HP Apollo 9000 series 700 workstations based on PA-7100; HP 75000 Model HD2000 data-acquisition system; HP 1642A data-acquisition card for modular HP16500 series logic-analysis system. 22-23
- Employee’s personal experience with HP medical equipment. 24
- Lew Platt’s “Hoshin” (Japanese terms for “breakthrough” is systematic planning process) goals for 1993. 25-26
- Momoko Sekiya, YHP, marries photographer who worked with her on HP “One Day” project in Japan, in 1988. 27
- Harvard’s Dunster House gets HP workstation/advanced learning center courtesy of Walter Hewlett. 28
- HP Avondale moves to Wilmington, Delaware, and is named Little Falls Operation. 29
- HP Spain raises money for aid to Somalia medical organization, help for Bosnia. 30
- Fourth-quarter net revenue up 13 percent, orders up 20. 30
- Purchasing magazine awards procurement team. 31
- Telecommunications Systems Business Unit (TSBU) formed. 31
- HP announces joint venture with Ericsson to develop network-management systems for telecom industry. 31
March-April 1993 Clearing the Way for Results
- Improving order-fulfillment process is high priority for 1993. 3-7
- HP scholarship program effort by employees encourages other employees’ kids to go to college. 8-9
- Colorado Springs Division transfers engineering responsibility to CHP, Beijing. 10-11
- Former employee and Baldrige Award recipient Bruce Woolpert discusses HP. 12-13
- Malaysia 1972-present, sites in Penang, Kuala Lumpur. 14-18
- Employees talk about xenophobia (fear/hatred of foreigners) in Germany. 19
- Crossword puzzle challenges employees about Measure history. 20-21
- Resolution enhancement technology, RET, for LaserJet printers, Charles Tung innovation. 22-24
- Lew Platt discusses HP way. 26-27
- HP disabled musicians part of Easy Access band. 28
- HP wins Personnel Journal award for human-resource management. 28
- HP Press has two new publishing partners: Prentice-Hall and Random House. 29
- First-quarter revenue up 18 percent, orders up 24. 29
- Employee’s fractal art published on calendar and cards. 30
- HP named in “The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America” by authors Milton Moscowitz and Robert Levering. 30
- Field operations in Western Hemisphere, NAFO, changes to Americas Operations, which will include the Latin America part of Intercon; Asia Pacific to one geographic organization. 31
May-June 1993 Facing Change
- Discussion of change and what happens when jobs are relocated; terminated employees in transition. 3-7
- U.S. semiconductor manufacturers and U.S. government join forces in SEMATECH, Austin, Texas, to strengthen industry competitiveness. 8-10
- HP in Russia and Packard’s Initiative training program; Herb Blomquist director, International Contract Programming group, ICP. 11-13
- HP’s community service objectives include programs that donate to universities, reuse and recycle programs, and encouraging employee involvement. 16-19
- Program gives R&D engineers a technical track (rather than management track) to advance careers. 20-21
- Julie Ryan, New Jersey Division, advances from secretary to manager. 22-24
- HP people help Baltimore woman whose HP husband was murdered in 1992. 25
- Lew Platt discusses managing change. 26-27
- John Young becomes CEO of Smart Valley Inc., nonprofit formed to link all segments of Silicon Valley. 28
- HP employee Bob Reynard vacation spent with volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance in Russia teaching farmers how to use computers. 28
- HP gives grant to San Francisco Ballet and Opera. 29
- HP equipment outfits mobile science for high school students in Los Angeles area. 29
- HP ranks 24 on Fortune 500 list. 29
- Stanford Park Division becomes Video Communications Division
- (VID). 31
- HP acquires Four Pi Systems Corp., manufacturer of automated process test systems. 31
July-August 1993 Environmental Victories
- Emphasis on decentralized decision-making in the 1990s. 3-6
- HP’s new laser-printer manufacturing facility in Italy gears up. 7-9
- Alan Bickell, international operations, talks about managing international operations. 10-13
- Measure editors review highlights at 30-year anniversary. 14-15
- New environmental program, “product stewardship,” formed to prevent harm to health, safety and ecology caused by any HP product. 16-19
- HP employee, Binh Rybacki, returns to Vietnam on humanitarian mission. 20-22
- Ben Holmes, manager of medical products group, comments on health care reform and costs. 23
- Barb Triol wins “Catalyst for Organizational Change” award at Technical Women’s Conference. 24
- Lew Platt discusses most-asked questions. 27
- HP executives don Australian gear in Melbourne. 28
- Stuffed bunnies collected by Worldwide Customer Support Operations and Finance and Remarketing Division for local police officers to give to children. 28
- HP participates in Geneva’s Chamber of Commerce event. 29
- Attorney Rand Newman writes mystery novel. 29
- Kittyhawk public relations campaign wins Silver Anvil award. 30
- Second-quarter revenue exceeds $5 billion. 30
- Job Resource Center in Corvallis employs developmentally disabled. 31
- HP buys BT&D Technologies Ltd. 31
- New products include HP Omnibook 300, smallest and lightest PC on market. 31
September-October 1993 High-Tech Passage to India
- Enormous revolutions in measurement, computation and communications and what it means for the future. 3-6
- Analytical leaves Avondale, Penn., and the impact of the largest employer leaving town. 7-9
- Cort Van Rensselaer (longest-service employee, 45 years) and Arnold Stauffer (started HP’s first operations in Europe) retire. 11
- Importance of backing up data and insurance; Common Operating Environments (COE) allows HP users to communicate more effectively. 12-13
- HP’s launched joint venture with India company in 1970; since 1989, HP’s presence in India has grown to 190-employee office in New Delhi and subsidiary in Bangalore. 14-16
- Wim Roelandts discusses Computer Systems Organization (CSO). 18-21
- Employee Jim Hines talks about need to get back some of the historical HP culture. 22
- HP’s Danette Taggart visits China for technical information exchange; Women in Computers and Data Processing delegation. 23-25
- Lew Platt discusses need for more diversity. 26-27
- Requirements are listed for HP President’s Quality Award. 28
- HP wins 14 honors at Hong Kong Top Quality Control (TQC) convention. 29
- HP recognized by Children Now for equipment grants to California schools. 29
- Retrospective of the late Norm Neely’s contributions to HP. 30
- Yokogawa Electric Corp. plans museum of measurement technology, which will include exhibits from HP Archives. 31
- Mark S. Lundstrom, professor of engineering at Purdue, wins Frederick Emmons Terman Award. 31
- Solectron purchases process technology associated with the printed circuit division of Lake Stevens Instrument Division. 31
- HP products certified by EPA for saving energy (by going into low-power standby mode when inactive) can display “Energy Star” logo. 31
November-December 1993 Dave Says Goodbye
- Co-founder Dave Packard retires after 54 years of leadership. 3-6
- Lew Platt calls for more improvement in percentage of women and minorities in management jobs and above; Platt shocked by overt acts of discrimination. (diversity) 7-9
- DeskManager, HP’s e-mail system, is 10 years old. 10-11
- HP backs North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico. 12-13
- Weyerhauser, world’s largest forest-products company, picks HP’s Apollo 9000 computer to move to open-systems computing. 14-17
- Bill Terry, embodiment of HP Way and one of HP’s highest ranking managers, retires. 18-20
- Kazunori Santa, YHP customer support engineer, talks about his famous last name. 21-23
- HP employees give Measure high marks on most survey questions. 24-25
- Lew Platt discusses Hoshin planning goals: increasing profit, improving order fulfillment, reasserting HP’s leadership as the best place to work (HP Way). 26-27
- 10 millionth HP LaserJet printer manufactured. 28
- HP Singapore holds annual TechQuiz contest; 13 junior colleges compete for $70,000 of HP equipment. 28
- Lew Platt wears Jim Willards shoes in Loveland Colo. 29
- Two HP Apollo model 710 workstations donated to Australian Koala Foundation. 29
- HP sponsors City Year in Boston. 29
- Marty Poniatowski’s HP Press book on HP-UX a bestseller. 30
- Rescue greyhounds make good pets. 31
- HP acquires EEsof Inc. 31
