DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation (Repost)
DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation by Edgar H Schein, Paul J Kampas, Peter S Delisi, Michael M Sonduck
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers | 2004 | ISBN: 1576753050 | 317 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers | 2004 | ISBN: 1576753050 | 317 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.