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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
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1894.0. "Book - 'Icarus Paradox' - DEC mentioned" by CSOADM::ROTH (What, me worry?) Tue May 12 1992 19:51

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QUABBI::"jeske@src.dec.com" "Steve Jeske"            11 lines  12-MAY-1992 11:53
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In today's WSJ, there is a book review (p. A14 in my edition) which
reviews "The Icarus Paradox" and cites DEC as a firm which "made the
trip" "from riches to rags" by starting as "craftsman organization
with masterful engineers and airtight operations [which] turned into
rigidly controlled detail-obsessed tinkerers whose insular,
technocratic culture alienates customers with perfect but irrelevant
products."  (First quotes from the article, last from the book.)

It is doubtless a coincidence that even though the Dow set a record
yesterday, DEC was down.
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