Michael Stockdell

eBook, ePUB

Event Horizon (eBook, ePUB)

Or How My Business Career Got Sucked into the Black Hole of the Radical Change in the Computer Industry

Beschreibung

EVENT HORIZON tells the story of the decline of IBM as the dominant force in the computer industry and how my business career was sucked down with it. IBM's decline was caused by two factors: (1) its obsolete technology based on an "all roads lead to Rome" centralized processing, and (2) the changing computer industry culture where technicians rather than salesmen ruled the roost. I saw this as an opportunity to create a unique kind of consulting practice based on technical specialists who could more quickly replace the mainframe legacy systems than generalist consultants. These insights deeply frightened industry management and eventually led to my being driven out of the industry.

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Autor

Mr. Stockdell has a BA in English from the university of Virginia, an MFA in Fiction Writing, and a Masters in Social Work (MSW). He worked in the computer industry for thirty years in a variety of capacities. While working at the Department of Agriculture, he wrote what was described as "one of the best systems studies ever written" in the Department. For many years he worked at a large pharmaceutical company where his order entry system allowed the company to be first in the industry in order-delivery cycle. He was a Management Consulting Manager at a large national consulting firm where he was rated excellent in technical skills and oral communication. He developed the outline for a Management Consulting program at Digital Equipment Company and successfully implemented it. Later on, he was Executive Vice-President for a start-up parallel supercomputer company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: URLink Print & Media, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643679051
• Artikelnr.: 58041108