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Compare and contrast the histories of INMOS and Hewlett Packard with regard to management strategies.  

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Compare and contrast the histories of INMOS and Hewlett Packard with regard to management strategies. Hewlett Packard (HP) and INMOS used very different management strategies due to the history and very different background of the company. They had, in some way, very different aims. In this essay, I will explain the differences and similarities of the use of management strategies. HP founded in the late 1930s by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in California, USA. The was first managed in four divisions as follows: Computer Systems Group, the Measurement Systems Group, the Medical Products Group and the Analytical Instrumentation Group. There successful management now results a company employing over 120,000 people in more than 110 countries worldwide and has manufacturing and R&D in 52 of them. In contrast, INMOS has a shorter history and founded under a Labour government the National Enterprise Board (NEB) in 1978. As a newly formed company £50m...

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