DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC

Illustrations

FIGURES

2.1. Three Levels of Culture 21

6.1. DEC’s Cultural Paradigm: Part 1 82

6.2. DEC’s Cultural Paradigm: Part 2 83

7.1. Parody of a DEC Employment Ad 98

9.1. The Three Paradigms of the Computer Revolution 133

9.2. The Development of DEC into a Full-Solution Company by the Mid-1970s 136

9.3. Anatomy of a Technology Wave 137

9.4. The Dramatic Shift in Innovation Mix as a Technology Matures 138

9.5. The Emergence of the Category Killers 140

E.1. 1975 Graph Showing the Decline in Price of Computers, 1966-1986 294

E.2. 1981 Graph Showing the Performance for Semiconductor and Processor Architectures in the Minicomputer Class 295

TABLES

7.1. Attributes of Transformational Leaders and Managers 93

9.1. Characteristics of the Three Paradigms ...