COMM 151 Chapter Notes -Alpha Wave, Creation Myth, Laser Printing
16 Apr 2013
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Arguing about making the plant focus on automation, expensive but other companies will beat them to it. Decide to go with it, the whole line is run under automation. People are more likely to see failure than the possibility of success. Ted"s decision puts the company ahead of others, but the plant will be semi automated as the decision was too big to handle. Ted is moved because he it too valuable. He has the ability to get people to take risks, get people moving. Steve jobs took advantage of the opportunity he saw in xerox"s technology when they did not capitalize on it. Jobs was inspired by the mouse, and experiment until he was able to create one for extremely cheap yet it was durable, he evolved the concept into something small and convenient. Us was first to invent command and control communications for the military, they took an idea from the soviets that they had not capitalized on.
