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Netra Shetty
Digi-Key is the fourth largest electronic component distributor in North America and a broad-line distributor of board level components. It ranks as the 8th largest electronic component distributor in the world. Ronald Stordahl founded the company in 1972 and its name was derived from the digital electronic keyer kit that he developed and marketed to amateur radio enthusiasts.[1] It was called the “Digi-Keyer Kit.”
Mark Larson, who joined Digi-Key in 1976 as its general manager, has been its president since 1985. He has led the company from its initial focus on the hobbyist market to the expanded market it serves today.
In 1995, Digi-Key introduced its website that offers complete online commerce capabilities along with access to product inventory. Digi-Key currently hosts 82 websites in eight supported languages.
In only six years, Digi-Key has moved from 16th largest to fifth largest among the more than 300 electronic component distributors in North America. According to their website, in 2007 EE Times conducted a survey in which engineers rated Digi-Key “#1 for Overall Performance for the 16th Consecutive Year.”
Digi-Key is located in a single, centralized location in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, USA. Its facility measures 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) and houses over 2,300 employees. Its product distribution center stocks over 500,000 products from over 440 manufacturers and ships to 170 countries worldwide.
Digi-Key serves design engineers and the prototyping market, as well as an expanding role in supplying production quantities for OEMs and contract manufacturers.
CEO
Todd Clyde
Chairman of the Board
King Nelson
Director
John Sayward
Director
Gerhard Burbach
Director
Kenneth Olson
Director
Steven Mendell
CFO
Richard Slansky
Digirad Imaging Solutions
MK
Operations
VL
Human Resources
Marc Shapiro
Development & Marketing
RW
Radiation Safety
TH
Technology is another determining factor that will affect the new forms organizations will take. One example concerns organizations that were once a part of AT&T. Rapidly changing telecommunications technology and the removal of certain regulations are opening new market niches in which the regional telephone companies can compete. Another example is robotics and other modern production methods. As these technologies have developed, they have changed the American automobile industry as significantly as did foreign competition. Some research demonstrates that technological change offers occasions for restructuring.
Technology has received an extensive amount of study over the years. The research has produced the following typology of technology:
- Long-linked technology, in which many operations are interdependent, such as an assembly line
- Mediating technology, in which otherwise independent units are linked by following procedures, such as bank tellers who all serve customers in an isolated way but do so according to the bank's rules
- Intensive technology, in which the task sequence is unique and depends on feedback from the object being acted upon. Hospitals exhibit this technology in that patients are acted upon differentially and each action depends on their response (improvement or deterioration of their condition) to prior actions.
As organizations move from one type of technology to another, the demand for rigid rules or flexibility changes. While cooperation is significant in all three technologies-later stages of an assembly line cannot function smoothly if earlier stages falter, just as the surgical team requires intense cooperation to succeed-more flexibility and communication is needed in intensive technology than in the other two forms.
Mark Larson, who joined Digi-Key in 1976 as its general manager, has been its president since 1985. He has led the company from its initial focus on the hobbyist market to the expanded market it serves today.
In 1995, Digi-Key introduced its website that offers complete online commerce capabilities along with access to product inventory. Digi-Key currently hosts 82 websites in eight supported languages.
In only six years, Digi-Key has moved from 16th largest to fifth largest among the more than 300 electronic component distributors in North America. According to their website, in 2007 EE Times conducted a survey in which engineers rated Digi-Key “#1 for Overall Performance for the 16th Consecutive Year.”
Digi-Key is located in a single, centralized location in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, USA. Its facility measures 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) and houses over 2,300 employees. Its product distribution center stocks over 500,000 products from over 440 manufacturers and ships to 170 countries worldwide.
Digi-Key serves design engineers and the prototyping market, as well as an expanding role in supplying production quantities for OEMs and contract manufacturers.
CEO
Todd Clyde
Chairman of the Board
King Nelson
Director
John Sayward
Director
Gerhard Burbach
Director
Kenneth Olson
Director
Steven Mendell
CFO
Richard Slansky
Digirad Imaging Solutions
MK
Operations
VL
Human Resources
Marc Shapiro
Development & Marketing
RW
Radiation Safety
TH
Technology is another determining factor that will affect the new forms organizations will take. One example concerns organizations that were once a part of AT&T. Rapidly changing telecommunications technology and the removal of certain regulations are opening new market niches in which the regional telephone companies can compete. Another example is robotics and other modern production methods. As these technologies have developed, they have changed the American automobile industry as significantly as did foreign competition. Some research demonstrates that technological change offers occasions for restructuring.
Technology has received an extensive amount of study over the years. The research has produced the following typology of technology:
- Long-linked technology, in which many operations are interdependent, such as an assembly line
- Mediating technology, in which otherwise independent units are linked by following procedures, such as bank tellers who all serve customers in an isolated way but do so according to the bank's rules
- Intensive technology, in which the task sequence is unique and depends on feedback from the object being acted upon. Hospitals exhibit this technology in that patients are acted upon differentially and each action depends on their response (improvement or deterioration of their condition) to prior actions.
As organizations move from one type of technology to another, the demand for rigid rules or flexibility changes. While cooperation is significant in all three technologies-later stages of an assembly line cannot function smoothly if earlier stages falter, just as the surgical team requires intense cooperation to succeed-more flexibility and communication is needed in intensive technology than in the other two forms.
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