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Title DEC is dead, long live DEC : the lasting legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation / Edgar H. Schein [and others]
Published San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 319 pages) : illustrations, facsimile
Contents 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
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
Notes Originally published: 2003
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index
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Subject Digital Equipment Corporation -- History
Digital Equipment Corporation -- Biography
SUBJECT Digital Equipment Corporation fast
Subject Computer industry -- United States -- History
Computer industry -- United States -- Management -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Computers & Information Technology.
Computer industry
Computer industry -- Management
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Schein, Edgar H.
ISBN 9781605093024
1605093025
9781605094083
1605094080
9786612300424
6612300426
Other Titles Lasting legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation is dead, long live Digital Equipment Corporation