Research in the new book, Becoming Hewlett Packard: Why Strategic Leadership Matters (Oxford University Press) by Robert A. The interplay between HP’s culture and strategy had a vital role in HP’s successes and failures. But which elements of HP’s corporate culture would the newly separate companies want to keep? HP’s culture, once widely admired, fragmented during the decade and a half of large acquisitions and acrimonious leadership changes prior to the 2015 split. got the imaging and printing and PC businesses. ![]() Hewlett Packard Enterprise got the computing systems assets and IT services and software businesses, while Hewlett Packard Inc. When Hewlett-Packard split into two companies in late 2015, it was 15 years overdue. The essence of HP’s culture, known as the “HP Way” could be expressed in a few straightforward objectives including self-financed growth, highly differentiated products, respect for employees, and good corporate citizenship. ![]() HP’s original culture was shaped and maintained by its cofounders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. 2017 CHM Fellow Alan Cooper: Father of Visual Basic Events will focus on the processes and products of creative problem solving and will include interactive workshops on a variety of topics, including coding and engineering design, the impact of software, and the history and future of computing.Ĭontinue Reading 6. Installations and programs will allow students, educators, families, and community members to understand and experience the technological innovations that have shaped our modern world. The Education Center will be a 3,000-square-foot flexible-use teaching space that will take advantage of cutting-edge technologies for use in onsite and distance education, with the physical construction facilitating the kinds of active, collaborative, inquiry-based learning that exemplify the Museum’s educational strengths. The center will provide a much-needed dedicated space for the Museum’s growing education programs. Merging Learning and Design: The Makings of CHM’s New Education Centerįormer CHM CEO John Hollar (far right) with CHM staff and community members during Education Center planning meeting.ĬHM is embarking on design and construction of a new Education Center. So together let’s wish the iPhone a very happy 10th birthday! In the words of the late Steve Jobs, “it’s magic.” Follow this list to retrace the journey.Ĭontinue Reading 5. The team represents an internal collaboration between the Exponential Center, whose director Marguerite Gong Hancock is coordinating the overall effort, Hansen Hsu and David Brock of the Software History Center, historian John Markoff, senior curator Dag Spicer, and myself of the Internet History Program. The main techniques are oral histories, collecting software, documents, objects and more, and both public and private events. This year, much of CHM’s curatorial team is taking a comprehensive look at the evolution of the iPhone with the iPhone 360 project. Apple sold a million of them in three months, and over a billion to date. ![]() The iPhone was announced on Janu, in one of Steve Jobs’ many dazzling demos. NeXT: Steve Jobs’ dot.com IPO that Never Happened Join us as we revisit our 10 most-read blogs of 2017. ![]() With 56 posts from contributors throughout the Museum and the computing community, 2017 has been a record-breaking year for our blog. Meza shared the community impact of our education programs and highlighted the important work of our Software History Center and Exponential Center. We’ve hosted the thoughts and stories of guest bloggers, like Photoshop Hall of Famer Bert Monroy and Becoming Hewlett Packard authors Webb McKinney and Philip E. We’ve celebrated anniversaries of companies, technologies, and innovations that have profoundly shaped the way we communicate, access information, and do business revisited inspiring CHM Live conversations and dove into our archives to bring you the best of computer history. 2017 proved a remarkable year for computing and the Computer History Museum (CHM) in many ways, and we’ve documented it all on our blog.
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