DEC is dead, long live DEC : the lasting legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation /
Digital Equipment Corporation achieved sales of over $14 billion, reached the Fortune 50, and was second only to IBM as a computer manufacturer. Though responsible for the invention of speech recognition, the minicomputer, and local area networking, DEC ultimately failed as a business and was sold t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, Calif. :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Three developmental streams : a model for deciphering the lessons of the DEC story
- Part one : the creation of a culture of innovation : the technology, organization, and culture streams are one and the same
- Ken Olsen, the scientist-engineer
- Ken Olsen, the leader and manager
- Ken Olsen, the salesman-marketer
- DEC's cultural paradigm
- DEC's "other" legacy : the development of leaders / Tracy C. Gibbons
- DEC's impact on the evolution of organization development
- Part two : the streams diverge, causing an organizational midlife crisis
- The impact of changing technology / Paul Kampas
- The impact of success, growth, and age
- Learning efforts reveal cultural strengths and rigidities
- The turbulent 1980s : peaking but weakening
- The beginning of the end : Ken Olsen's final efforts to save DEC
- Part three : lessons and legacies
- Obvious lessons and subtle lessons
- The lasting legacy of digital equipment corporation
- Appendix A : DEC's technical legacy
- Appendix B : DEC manufacturing : contributions made and lessons learned / Michael Sonduck
- Appendix C : DEC, the first knowledge organization / Debra Rogers Amidon
- Appendix D : digital : the strategic failure / Peter DeLisi
- Appendix E : what happened? : a postscript / Gordon Bell.