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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schein, Edgar H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
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  • 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.