[1949] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Summarizing the Situation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sean mclinden)
Sat Jan 11 08:08:41 1992
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 92 07:54:26 -0500
From: sean@dsl.pitt.edu (sean mclinden)
To: cook@tmn.com, steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
I think that it might be appropriate, at this time, to recall a talk
by W. Edwards Demming. Demming was the gentleman called in by the Union
of Japanese Scientists and Engineers to help with the industrialization
of postwar Japan and has been credited with the establishment of the
"Japan, Inc." philosophy and Japan's rise to economic and technologic
power. At last year's presentation of the Demming Awards he commented:
"If you try to make every sector of your business a 'profit center', you
destroy the system as a whole. Every component must work to accomplish
the aim of the system. We have been misled in America by 'competition'.
We think competition is important but cooperation is much better. We
worry about market share, when everyone in the corporation should be
concerned about expanding the market."
