Just before Christmas, Digital Equipment Corp duly fulfilled its promise to provide details of its break-up into nine semi-autonomous units in a move that mirrors the action that IBM Corp has been laboriously undertaking. These organisations will be responsible for understanding customer needs and providing solutions to meet these needs, said new president and chief […]
Just before Christmas, Digital Equipment Corp duly fulfilled its promise to provide details of its break-up into nine semi-autonomous units in a move that mirrors the action that IBM Corp has been laboriously undertaking. These organisations will be responsible for understanding customer needs and providing solutions to meet these needs, said new president and chief executive Robert Palmer: Collectively, they will have all of Digital’s worldwide profit responsibility. All nine of the new business units will report directly to Palmer: they are Components & Peripherals; Storage; Discrete Manufacturing & Defence; Multivendor Customer Services; Health Industries; Personal Computers; Financial, Professional & Public Service Industries; Communications, Education & Entertainment Industries; and Consumer & Process Manufacturing. DEC sees them as natural customer groupings of industries. Five units were allocated vice-presidents to run them – Lawrence Cabrinety will run Components & Peripherals, Charles Christ gets the Storage business, Frank McCabe Discrete Manufacturing & Defence Industries, John Rando Multivendor Customer Services and Willow Shire the Health Industries Business Unit. DEC says senior managers will be assigned to the other four units, which are responsible for planning and execution of DEC’s strategic worldwide plan, shortly.
