The Bilzer Report

 Wow, questions pop up all the time from "the old days"

Scott Futryk, my partner at AstroVirtual  (https://www.astrovirtual.com/), posed the following today:On Jan 28, 2026, at 6:21 PM, Scott Futryk <Scott@anywhereanytime.us> wrote:

    1. How often was the Bilzer Report "run?

    2. Who was responsible and what was the source data?

    3. Who got to see it

    4, When did the executive staff see it?

    5. How many times per quarter, per month did the Bilzer Report get analyzed?

    6. On a scale of 1 to 100, what was the OVERALL VALUE of the Bilzer Report ?

    7, Was anything ever written about the Bilzer Report good or bad ?

Thx,

 

Scott

 

Co-Founder & Managing Director

AstroVirtual Inc.

www.AstroVirtual.com 

Silicon Valley, CA  95020

408-569-5900

 

On Jan 28, 2026, at 7:55 PM, charles house <housec1839@gmail.com> wrote:

1.  Monthly

2. Maria Bilzer, Carl Cittrell.  Daily order data from every HP office

3. All GMs, all CORP OFFICERS

4. Third day of the next month

5. I have no idea

6. 90

7. Don’t know.  I’m sending 3 pp from the book that Ray Price and I did some years ago

So, you, dear reader, are probably wondering just what was the Bilzer Report, and what difference does it make today?

I pulled a paragraph out of The HP Phenomenon (House and Price, Stanford Press, 2009) to answer: 

 

AstroVirtual built a Dashboard for the 1978-1985 timeframe for the Instrument Group data.  If you persuade me hard, I could insert some learning from it.

As usual, there are cartoons for practically anything.  Here's one for today's political turmoil

The corollary is that there are a ton of great ideas that have been tried before, and found to work extremely well, that have been forgotten in the meantime.   Such is the Bilzer report!