Hewlett-Packard more commonly known as HP is a consumer electronics company. Since their humble beginnings they have had a focus on inventive thinking and creativity. Last year this company celebrated its 75th anniversary. 75 years is a major accomplishment for any company, but it is especially significant for a company in an industry as competitive and prone to change as the technology industry. HP has been inventing and manufacturing electronics for almost twice as long as several of the industries major players such as Apple and Microsoft. With a research and development budget rivaling that of much larger companies such as Apple, HP still places a lot of emphasis on the creation of new technology. Throughout this project we will be …show more content…
Shortly after starting his job at General electric Dave Packard took a leave of absence and moved himself and his new wife to Palo Alto California, and began working with Bill Hewlett to start their own company using an idea Bill had during his time as a student.
The Idea that would start not only HP but all of Silicon Valley was the subject of Bill Hewlett’s thesis subject at Stanford. Bill envisioned an audio oscillator that would be cheaper to make, easier to operate, more accurate, and more portable than what was available at the time. The key to this new oscillator was a small light bulb. By glowing brighter or dimmer the light bulb could stabilize the signal strength, cancelling unwanted variations. This gave Bill’s design a great advantage over other companies. After more experimentation and testing Bill and Dave were able to take the thesis project and make HP’s first product, the 200A Oscillator. The name was chosen to make it appear that they had designed other similar devices and that this was not the company’s first product. The first major buyer to benefit from Bill’s new design was Walt Disney. Before their purchase Disney requested some design changes which lead to the 200B oscillator. Disney needed a new kind of audio oscillator to get movie theaters ready for the upcoming release of their new movie fantasia. Due to the musical nature of the movie,
Inventec’s ability to create sophisticated software is considered to be one of its strengths and something that competitors have found difficult to match. The current market line of low margin Notebook PC’s does not take full advantage of Inventec’s software capabilities. Inventec should try to separate its proprietary software from its hardware products and capitalize on its superiority.
I will never see the day when there is not yet room for improvement. Through time, HP's focus on innovation had brought the world products such as the handheld calculator and the inkjet printer. In 1992, the company continued to invest heavily in technology, spending $1.6 billion or 10% of revenue on research and development. The high levels of investment have paid off. For three straight years, over half of HP's orders had been for products introduced within the last two years.
Not long after that did he was introduced to his future partner in business Steve Wozniak through a friend.
HP did many things correctly when addressing the challenges for disruptive change. For instance, they organized a smaller team of “hungry” individuals from marketing, manufacturing, and research and development that moved the project away from the core group essentially acting as a small startup business. The smaller group was motivated to establish itself and prove their product was worthy of funding and upper management support. They also differentiated themselves by choosing team members that were uninterested in maintaining status in the company mainstream way of thinking. HP allowed a lot of leeway to the Kitty Hawk team in making decisions and providing financial backing to the project’s
All of these technological advances by HP receive the attention of Japan and China where HP expanded in hopes of continuing to invent newer and better technologies in the future. Since the 90’s HP has gone on to invent many other firsts like the first all-in-one device and is the first company to recycle ink cartridges. They have also acquired many smaller companies like Snapfish and Compaq to grow the company to being one of the industry leaders in personal computing. (Hewlett-Packard, 2013).
In addition to your company’s exterior success in developing cutting edge technology in biochemical engineering, and in materials engineering; Your company has developed an inexpensive and efficient way to create high quality computers, with low costs.
Hewlett Packard is about extending beyond the limits of classical physics and provides a quantum leap in performance, reliability and security. With the ever changing world of technology and the high demand to stay ahead of the curve, HP Labs is inventing today and for the next generation a new line of HP products and solutions. HP focuses on partnering with you, the visionary customer by solving your enterprise issues. HP has the scale, ideas, expertise and unmatched portfolio of products and services to deliver end-to-end innovation and value. We believe diversity is a key driver of our success. Putting all our differences to work across the world is a continuous journey fueled by personal leadership from everyone in our company.
The HP 2020 (2014) reported that obesity is one of the twelve leading health indicators clusters with supporting data, posing concerns at a national, state and local level, needing an evidence based promising practice. The HP 2020 provides access to cross sectors, a 10-year national goals, objectives and evidence based interventions resources to improve health practices. Specifically, the HP 2020 (2015) identified goals that can reduce the obesity epidemic:
HP, an expert in the hi-tech industry understands the fiercely competitive environment where technological and innovative advancements could create turbulent
Walt Disneyhas changed our lives in one way or another. Being an Entreprenaur of many talents Inventions created by Walt are the Fantasound. The Fantasound v was a stereophonic sound reproduction system developed by engineers of Walt Disney studios and RCA for Walt Disney's animated film Fantasia..
After graduating he when to Stanford to pursue a Ph.D, but dropped out after two days to start his own company Zip2. Compaq purchased his company in 1999 for 341 million.
Polyphonic’s first idea was to market their technology of the HSS to retailers. The retailers would have stations in their stores so that people can rate songs. The problem was that they could not find a software company to work with.
HP is one of the few companies in the world to successfully marry the technologies of measurement, computing and communication. The company makes new advances in portable computing, enters the home-computing market and continues to invent new printing and imaging solutions. For most of the decade, HP enjoys growth rates of 20 percent.
Apple has always been something of a trendsetter in the tech space. Its product history since Steve Jobs’s return in 1997 gives us a solid list of examples to choose from, from its very first iPod, to Apple’s PowerBook (and later MacBook) lines, to the iPhone and the iPad. Apple’s history is dominated by products that existed before Apple had a crack at them - but it was Apple who simplified them, made them appealing on a much wider scale, and ultimately made them objects of desire for the masses.
Intel, also known as Integrated Electronics, is a company that manufactures and sells various types of electronic equipment and hardware. It was founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce in 1968 and has since grown to be a commonly used consumer brand. Intel must ensure that its products are consistently well-made, especially when its products affect the consumer’s experience with the technology he or she is using. Because Intel must implement quality in a wide variety of products, the best practice for the company is to have a physical separation between its departments and to focus on the quality of each individual aspect of its product creation; this will allow each department to specialize in their work functions and allow the company to separate each task effectively.