DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC

part oneThe Creation of a Culture of Innovation

THE TECHNOLOGY, ORGANIZATION, AND CULTURE STREAMS ARE ONE AND THE SAME

The chapters in part I show how Ken Olsen’s vision created both a technology and a certain kind of management structure and process based on strongly held personal beliefs, values, and principles. For purposes of exposition we present the several sides of Olsen’s vision in separate chapters, knowing, of course, that these are highly interrelated. On the technical side Olsen had strong beliefs and values regarding science and electrical engineering, which will be examined in chapter 3. These technical beliefs and values were tightly intertwined with strong convictions and values about how people should be managed (chapter 4). ...