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1 online resource (xv, 319 pages) : illustrations, facsimile |
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data file rda |
| Note |
Originally published: 2003. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index. |
| Summary |
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 to Compaq Corporation in 1998. This fascinating modern Greek tragedy by Ed Schein, a high-level consultant to DEC for 40 years, shows how DEC's unique corporate culture contributed both to its early successes and later to an organizational rigidity that caused its ultimate downfall. |
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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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Language |
This edition in English. |
| Subject |
Digital Equipment Corporation -- History.
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Digital Equipment Corporation -- Biography.
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Digital Equipment Corporation |
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Computer industry -- United States -- History.
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Computer industry -- United States -- Management -- Case studies.
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Informatique -- Industrie -- États-Unis -- Histoire. |
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Informatique -- Industrie -- États-Unis -- Gestion -- Études de cas. |
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Computer industry |
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Computer industry -- Management |
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United States |
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Biographies
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Case studies
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History
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| Added Author |
Schein, Edgar H.
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| Added Title |
Lasting legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation |
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Digital Equipment Corporation is dead, long live Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Other Form: |
Print version: DEC is dead, long live DEC. San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler, ©2004 1576753050 (OCoLC)56540500 |
| ISBN |
9781605093024 (electronic bk.) |
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1605093025 (electronic bk.) |
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9781605094083 |
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1605094080 |
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(pbk.) |
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(pbk.) |
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9786612300424 |
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6612300426 |
| Music No. |
MWT11273503 |
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