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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

3772.0. "Is the wheel being re-invented here?" by JOBURG::HARRIS () Wed Mar 29 1995 06:30

    Dear All,
    
    It seems as if our subsiduary has been left to work out it's own way of
    doing things. Is this normal practice for new subsiduaries?
    
    (See previous Joburg::harris note.)
    
    I agree that there are some processes in place in South Africa, which
    are as they are elsewhere in Digital.
    
    Surely there are Guidelines somewhere which would culminate to
    "communication" or rather the same model (More or less) being used as a
    backbone to business in Digital.
    
    I would appreciate any comments.
    Regards Ivan.

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3772.1		BBRDGE::LOVELL	� l'eau; c'est l'heure	`Wed Mar 29 1995 08:50`	23
	Well here is comment as requested - not sure that it will encourage you though ; What you are witnessing in the SA subsidiary is not really any different from what has happened in many Digital evolutions recently. I have seen this in Eastern European sub. creation, the "acquisitions" such as DEE, Data Logic, Mannesmann, etc. and most surprisingly, recently in the PCBU, NPBU and to some extent MCS. The old Digital is breaking up. Super Nova. And out of chaos new life forms are being created. Some of this has great future potential for new markets but regrettably a few babies are being lost with the bathwater. This is particularly poignant if you are a part of the "new life form" with a memory for some of the more fundamental practices that served us well - like part numbering, call handling, network access .... etc. No, I do not think that your experience in SA is fundamentally any different from other new Digital ventures - just that you are in a special position of being part of it whilst remembering the details of how the old Digital worked. /Chris.
3772.2	Consider yourself ahead...	GLDOA::WERNER		`Wed Mar 29 1995 09:44`	3
	You get a WHEEL! -OFWAMI-
3772.3	HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA	DPDMAI::EYSTER	It ain't a car without fins...	`Wed Mar 29 1995 16:04`	9
	You want us to show you how WE do it? And embarass ourselves to our newest subsidiary? Get real! And when you get your new wheel invented, we'd appreciate it tremendously if y'all would share, OK? We're trying now to figure how to make ours work without spokes, tube, or tire (they're coming for the bearings next week). Tex
3772.5	Hide the Cutlery	HLDE01::VUURBOOM_R	Roelof Vuurboom @ APD, DTN 829 4066	`Thu Mar 30 1995 10:45`	6
	> And when you get your new wheel invented, we'd appreciate it > tremendously if y'all would share, OK? We're trying now to figure > how to make ours work without spokes, tube, or tire (they're coming for > the bearings next week). ...that should read _sporks_, tube or tire :-)