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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

927.0. "Interesting figures...." by DECWET::SIEBOLD (I19G is German for I18N) Thu Sep 21 1989 18:31

The following is quoted from a DEC Germany internal publication that goes to
all employees. It is part of an article by the German subsidiary finance
manager.

The article covers the financial results of DIGITAL worldwide and
Germany in particular. It talks about the growth companies made during
the years 1984 until 1988 in terms of manpower and dollars.


Company		Dollars		Manpower
		(in Bill. $)	(in +/1 1000 employees)
---------------------------------------------------------

DEC		6		+36000

IBM		14		-8000

HP		4		+5000

3M		3		-4000

MERCK		2		-3000

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927.1MSCSSE::LENNARDThu Sep 21 1989 19:123
    ............and therein lies our biggest problem.  Digital managers
    still automatically translate every additional task into a requisition.
    This is what Olsen is trying to stop now (without much success).