Internal Software Developer

Dan,

My [group at HP] is called Supply Chain Information Systems (SCIS).

We are a central team in HP (organizationally) that supports software and software related services to better enable HP's businesses to manage their product development, manufacturing and supply chain management capabilities. This is a very intrapreneurial organization that sells it services to the profit making organizations within the company. We have employees worldwide to support our activity, although most of the employees are in Palo Alto, CA.

From an HP business perspective, we are required to understand new product introduction processes, manufacturing processes and supply chain management processes.

From a modeling perspective, we are required to map specific business situations into archetypes of leverable approaches, including tools (buy and build), data models and integration strategies. A key for us is to be able to strike the balance between a pure archectype and using variants from the archetype as an advantage in the market.

From a technical perspective, we are required to support existing technologies within our IT infrastructure as well as integrate leading technologies in our environment. A wide breadth of extranet activity

(NT, Web, hole-in-the-firewall management) is part of this.

From an intrapreneurial perspective, we need to have processes and tools that allow us to manage our organization as a business.

Jung Lee '98 joined our organization this summer.

Thanks and regards,

Chuck Ortenberg '77
Hewlett Packard Company
(650) 852-3742
email: chuck_ortenberg@hp.com