Control Data Corporation Records,

Corporate Administration, 1957-1991

CBI 80

Series 6

Collection Size: 5.33 cubic ft. (6 boxes)

Creator: Control Data Corporation

Prepared by: Maria Plonski and Kate Flanagan, 2004. Updated by Karen Spilman, 2006.

Acquisition: The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Ceridian Corporation in 1991.

Access: Access to the collection is unrestricted.

Copyright: The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred Citation: Control Data Corporation Records, Corporate Administration (CBI 80), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of meeting notes and reports of the Control Data Corporation Board of Directors as well as company advisory committees, executive councils, committees, subcommittees, and task forces.

Researchers should consult the following series for additional information on the activities of Control Data Corporation's executives:

• Executive Papers
• Executive Papers - William C. Norris

Arrangement of the Collection

• Board of Directors
• Executive Council/Committee
• Management Advisory Committee
• Committees, Subcommittees, and Task Forces
• Reports

Index Terms

Control Data Corporation – Management.

Norris, William C., 1911-

Box and Folder List

Board of Directors, 1957-1991

• Board of Directors, 1957-1971, 1974-1975, 1979-1991 (Box 1, folders 15-26)
• Board of Directors, Strategic Options, September 5-6, 1990 (Box 5, folder 29)
• Board of Directors and Management Committee, Financial Data, March 1986 (Box 1, folder 27)
• Board of Directors Presentation: Strategic Threats and Responses, November 14, 1985 (Box 5, folders 27-28)
• Comments to the Board of Directors, by William C. Norris, 1968-1973, 1979-1986 (Box 1, folders 1-14)

Executive Council/Committee, 1958-1974

• Executive Committee – Meetings, 1958-1964 (Box 2, folders 1-2)
• Executive Council Meetings, Minutes, Memos, 1965-1974 (Box 2, folders 3-10)

Management Advisory Committee, 1957-1988
The Management Committee was charged with recommending positions and making decisions on matters delegated by the Corporate Office. The committee was responsible for Corporate and Operating Unit Plans, new or revised corporate policies, organization structure and recommendations, management practices, mission and business scopes, facilities, resolution of inter-group differences, other committee activities review, and representing the corporation both internally/externally on matters designated by the corporate office.

Membership was appointed by the corporate office. The committee name changed from Management Advisory Committee (est. 1957) to Management Committee sometime between the late 1960s and 1973.

• Management Advisory Committee, Meetings, 1957-1960, 1964-1965 (Box 2, folders 11-13)
• Management Advisory Committee, Meetings, Memos, and Materials, 1960-1988 (Box 2, folder 14-17)

Committees, Subcommittees, and Task Forces, 1965-1991

• Accounting, Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) Steering Committee, 1972 (Box 6, folder 1)
• Ad Hoc Committee on Corporate Growth, Long Range Projection (1990-2000), 1985 (Box 3, folder 1)
• Ad Hoc Committee on Corporate Growth, Memos and Reports, 1985 (Box 3, folder 2)
• Administrative and Employee Relation Committee, 1981-1982 (Box 3, folder 3)
• Administrative Committee, 1961 (Box 6, folder 2)
• Amusement/Recreation Industry Steering Committee Meetings, 1970-1971 (Box 3, folder 4)
• Bettis/KAPL Steering Committee, 1966 (Box 3, folder 5)
• BTC Steering Committee, 1980 (Box 5, folder 1)
• Cable TV (CATV) Task Force, 1979 (Box 3, folder 6)
• Control Data Manager Task Force, Final Report, 1976 (Box 3, folder 7)
• Corporate Data Communications Task Force Report, February 1978 (Box 3, folders 8-9)
• Corporate Development, Highlight Reports, 1969-1970 (Box 5, folder 3)
• Corporate Development, Weekly Reports, 1969-1971 (Box 5, folders 4-6)
• Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, 1972-1978 (Box 3, folders 30-36)
• Corporate Strategy Committee, Meeting Minutes and Memos, 1974-1984 (Box 3, folder 10)

  In January 1984 the Corporate Strategy Committee was discontinued and the Policy Committee took over as a forum for strategy presentations and discussions. See also Policy Committee

• Diversified Services Strategy Committee – Minutes, 1975 (Box 3, folder 11)
• Education Strategy Sub-Committee, Meeting Minutes and Materials, 1975 (Box 3, folder 12)
• EFT – Financial/Integrated Services Strategy Subcommittee, 1975-1977 (Box 3, folder 13)
• Employee Health Care Program, Steering Committee, n.d. (Box 3, folder 14)
• Employee’s Stock Option Committee, 1957-1958 (Box 3, folder 15)
• Facilities and Construction Advisory Committee, 1965 (Box 3, folder 16)
• Food Systems Committee, n.d. (Box 3, folder 17)
• Government Affairs Liaison Committee, 1981-1982 (Box 3, folder 18)
• Housing Task Force, 1977-1978 (Box 3, folder 19)
• Industrial Systems and Services Strategy Subcommittee, 1975-1976 (Box 3, folder 20)
• International Trade and Industry Relations Committee, 1983-1984 (Box 5, folder 15)
• Job Security Task Force Report, 1981 (Box 5, folders 13-14)
• Metric Publicity Committee, 1977 (Box 3, folder 21)
• Performance Objectives Working Group (POWG), 1972-1974 (Box 6, folder 3)
• Planning Task Force, Interim and Final Reports, 1966 (Box 5, folder 17)
• Policy Committee, 1976-1980 (Box 3, folder 22)

  See also Corporate Strategy Committee

• Policy Committee, Investor Meeting Presentation (drafts), September 6, 1985 (Box 3, folder 23)

  See also Corporate Strategy Committee

• Prison Industry Task Force, Report, 1976 (Box 5, folder 22)
• Product Migration Task Force Status, September 10, 1975 (Box 6, folder 4)
• Product Strategy Committee, February-September 1972 (Box 3, folders 24-25)
• Profit Improvement Task Force, 1965 (Box 5, folder 23)
• Public Policy Committee, 1983 (Box 3, folder 26)
• Public Policy Sub-Committee, 1982-1985 (Box 3, folders 27-28)
• Small Systems/Terminal Systems Strategy Committee Report, August 1978 (Box 3, folder 29)
• Software Products Task Force Report, August 29, 1969 (Box 5, folder 25)
• Technology Committee, 1991 (Box 3, folder 37)
• Technology Transfer Committee, 1977 (Box 5, folder 9)

Reports

• Bank Meetings
• January 12-13, 1972 (Box 4, folder 1)
• Bankers/Lenders Meeting, March 14, 1974 (Box 4, folder 2)
• Credit Line Bank Meeting, Financial Requirements, 1974 (Box 4, folder 4)
• Credit Line Bankers Meeting, November 13, 1974 (Box 4, folder 3)
• Individual Bank Meeting, January 1975 (Box 4, folder 5)
• Components Group, Special Committee Study, 1975 (Box 4, folder 6)
• Computers and Weather: "Data and Systems Requirements in Meteorology," by IBM’s Data Processing Division," October 1967 (Box 4, folder 7)
• Computers and Weather: World Weather Watch, Planning Report No. 3, Telecommunications (Box 4, folder 8)
• Computers and Weather, 1969-1970 (Box 4, folder 9)
• "Control Data Corporation’s Position on Separate Sale of Computer System Hardware, Services, and Software," 1969 (Box 4, folder 14)
• Control Data Corporation
• 10^th Anniversary (Box 4, folder 10)
• 20^th Anniversary – Richard Swardson (Box 4, folder 11)
• 25^th Anniversary (see Social Needs and Business Opportunities Conference)
• Innovation Fund, 1987 (Box 4, folder 12)
• Writing Guide, n.d. (Box 4, folder 13)
• Control Data Institutes, Sale, 1989 (Box 4, folder 15)
• Cooperative Ventures, as of February 1982 (Box 4, folder 16)
• Corporate Administration and Personnel, Functions and Objectives, FY 1967 (draft) (Box 4, folder 17)
• "Corporate Mission" Script, 1974 (Box 5, folder 7)
• Corporate Policies and Procedures, 1964, 1966, 1969-1970, 1972-1975, 1984-1987 (Box 4, folders 18-19)
• Corporate Policies/Procedures – Software and Hardware Functional Manual, 1981 (Box 4, folder 20)
• Distributor Guidelines, 1982 (Box 1, folder 28)
• "The Employee Advisory Resource (EAR) Program at Control Data Corporation," by David Reed and David Robinson, January 1981 (Box 4, folder 21)
• Evaluation of Communications in the Control Data Executive Group, December 28, 1964 (Box 4, folder 22)
• Evaluation of the Control Data EAR Program, June 1987 (Box 4, folder 23)
• Executive Management Awareness Program, EEO/AA and Women, 1975 (Box 5, folder 2)
• Executive Seminar: "Trends in Large-Scale Computing," Proceedings, 1974-1975 (Box 5, folder 8)
• "Guidelines for Eliminating Bias from Meetings," c.1980 (Box 4, folder 24)
• Hardware Symposia, 1976-1977, 1982 (Box 5, folders 10-12)
• "Historical Information on Control Data Corporation Human Services," by E.L. Baker and R.D. Conner, July 1980 (Box 4, folder 25)
• IBM Lawsuit (Box 4, folder 26)
• "A Management Study of the Communications of Control Data Corporation," June 1985 (Box 4, folder 27)
• National Programs and Special Systems, Data Management Subsystem requirements, c. 1967 (Box 4, folder 28)
• Organization Changes and Promotions, Industrial Group, October 1, 1965 (Box 4, folder 29)
• Organization Changes and Promotions, Real Estate and Construction, July 1965 (Box 4, folder 30)
• Organization Charts, Changes, 1964 (Box 4, folder 31)
• "Plan for Takeover Defense," 1970 (Box 5, folder 16)
• "Planning for Future Top Management Requirements," March 1969 by Cresap, McCormick, and Paget, Inc. (Box 4, folder 32)
• "Principles of Software Development" Conference, 1980-1982 (Box 5, folders 18-21)
• Review of Past Year’s Operations, Digital Devices, c. 1961 (Box 4, folder 33)
• "School Superintendents’ Seminar, 1977 (Box 5, folder 24)
• Scientific American Computer and Electronic Data Processing Survey, 1963 (Box 4, folder 34)
• Social Needs and Business Opportunities Conference
• Agenda, Report, and Audiotapes, September 22-23, 1982 (Box 4, folder 35)
• Planning and Costs, 1982 (Box 4, folder 36)
• Social Needs and Business Opportunities Conference, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, June 1982 (Box 4, folder 37)
• Statement of Control Data’s Business, 1987, 1989 (Box 4, folder 38)
• Strategic Issues, 1987 (Box 4, folder 39)
• Strategic Threats and Responses, November 14, 1985 (Box 5, folders 27-28)
• Symposium on CYBER 205 Applications, Proceedings, 1982 (Box 5, folders 30-31)
• "Tentative Statement of Investment Policy and Objectives," July 1974 (Box 4, folder 40)
• Utilities Industry Board, 1974, 1975 (Box 4, folders 41-42)
• Vice President Candidates, 1967-1968 (Box 4, folder 43)
• Wages and Salaries, 1964, 1971 (Box 4, folder 44)