| Title: | The Digital way of working |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL ON |
| 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 |
This note file sizzles with ideas doesn't it? Is there an individual or
a group which actually goes through this file and sifts out the unmined
nuggets of gold that are scattered herein??
I find notes 4031.* replete with great ideas and suggestions for
improvement. Coming as it does from people at grass root, the
information contained herein is priceless.
Would some of these ideas be implemented. I doubt it. Knowing that this
is Digital which doesn't even know what great products it has and what
it has going for it, I would expect this couldron of great ideas to
largely drain off into nothingness.
However, I bet that Digital would pay some hi-fi consulting company a
few zillion bucks to get a rehash of just maybe 1% of the ideas
contained herein. Yeah! That is the golden rule as old as life itself.
You value it only when it is not yours and you pay big bucks for it.
My suggestion: Sell the contents of this note file to a consulting firm
for 9.99 (that would be right in line) and then buy back a rehash for a
100 million bucks. Contrary to what you think, that would be a very
profitable deal because having paid big bucks, chances are some of the
ideas would actually get implemented and DEC would eventually rake in a
few zillion bucks. Serious!
Thanks for listening,
Vijay (who loves everything DEC)
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| 4037.1 | SMURF::BINDER | Night's candles are burnt out. | Fri Aug 11 1995 12:59 | 10 | |
Vijay, the use of hi-fi outsiders is a time-honored tradition. The
Curmudgeon's Dictionary (� 1983) defines a "consultant" this way:
consultant n. An individual who makes a lucrative business of
absorbing information given him by a customer, disappearing "to
analyze the data," and then demanding large sums of money to give
the same information back, having in the interim phrased it in
prettier language.
Digital is obviously not immune to the lure of prettier language.
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| 4037.2 | WHOS01::BOWERS | Dave Bowers @WHO | Fri Aug 11 1995 13:13 | 7 | |
Robert (?) Townsend in "Up the Organization" (ca 1970) defines a
consultant as follows:
"..someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time...and then
keeps the watch."
\dave
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| 4037.3 | PADC::KOLLING | Karen | Fri Aug 11 1995 13:35 | 5 | |
There used to be a Notes file for employee suggestions, called
Delta-something, but it seems to have vanished. Too bad; I'd
like to know why Dec sends out 4 copies of a bill with its
pc products, what a waste of paper.
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| 4037.4 | Titles say it all | WELKIN::ADOERFER | Hi-yo Server, away! | Fri Aug 11 1995 15:38 | 8 |
Was more than a notesfile:
1057 ODIXIE::CARNELL 22-MAR-1990 51 DELTA program -- U.S. Field
1122* SCARGO::WEISMAN_E 12-JUN-1990 0 DELTA-Employees Sharing Ideas
1320 CAPNET::AGULE 19-DEC-1990 0 DELTA SUBMISSION FORM
1377 AUSSIE::BAKER 18-FEB-1991 53 Is DELTA broken?
1411* CAPNET::TEAMSCENTRAL 25-MAR-1991 0 DELTA_TEAMS CONFERENCE
2262 FORTSC::CHABAN 3-DEC-1992 70 Is DELTA a crock?
2493 ECADSR::SHERMAN 12-MAY-1993 53 What the ... cancelling DELTA?!?
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