Just When You Thought You Have Learned It All,
The Company Redefines Its Research Goals:
Other companies follow:
Companies Change Their Mission:
Bellcore catechism (G. Heilmeier, Bellcore CEO):
- What are you trying to do?
- How is it done now and what are the limitations of the current practice?
- What's new about your approach and why do you think it will work?
- If you're successful, what difference does it make?
- How do our customers get paid?
- What are the risks?
- How much it will cost?
- How long will it take?
- What are the mid-term and final exams?
Companies Get Sold and Broken-up:
- Sale of Bellcore:
(04-06-95)
WASHINGTON (AP) Showing just how divergent they've become, the
nation's seven regional Bell companies are planning to sell their
long-coveted research facility Bellcore.
- Break-up of AT&T:
(U.S. Edition)
Monday, January 8, 1996 - 11:45 a.m. EST
More than 200,000 jobs [were] eliminated since 1984 by AT&T
and the Baby Bells. Yet, surprisingly, the number of jobs in
telecommunications has stayed rock-steady, between 1.3 million and
1.4 million, just over 1% of the U.S. workforce, according to
federal statistics. That steady employment picture conceals
growth in some jobs, a decline in others. The 40,000 workers
emerging from AT&T have several things going for them, according
to former employees, analysts and recruiters.
