Meantime Digital Equipment Corp plans to give details of strategic changes in its key Computer Systems Division in meetings with employees starting next week, Reuter reports. We will announce the actual business segmentation of the systems portion of the Computer Systems Division on September 12, Lucia Quinn, vice-president of business strategy for the unit told the news agency in an interview. The current staff of 35,000 is to be trimmed to 21,000 before the end of the fiscal year in July 1995. The talks will focus predominantly on the business philosophy behind the systems business unit so that we’re moving all of those resources and projects to a profit-and-loss-driven structure. It is an area where we have to pay the most attention to overhead and management, she said. A big part of the restructuring involves redeploying the 6,000 engineers Computer Systems inherited when DEC’s huge central engineering organisation was decentralised.
