Oki Electric, by contrast, hews to the Japanese model of relying largely on organic growth.
Oki's top seven shareholders are Japanese financial institutions -- hardly angels of wealth creation.
The new president of Japan's Oki Electric Industry, Katsumasa Shinozuka, speaks with evangelical zeal about computer-telephony integration.
Oki, meanwhile, may or may not get some growth out of its new telephone gear and remains unfocused.
Japanese banks aren't great growth prospects these days, though Oki sees some potential in convenience stores and other locations.
Oki Electric, by contrast, hews to the Japanese model of relying largely on organic growth or none at all.
Hundreds of the 2, 700 will be shifted from Oki's parent company to subsidiaries.
Oki will keep its memory-chip operation in business to supply system LSIs -- chips packing several functions on one silicon wafer.
At that time, he pursued Oki, a young classmate, while working for a professor who was secretly having an affair with her.
Oki and its compatriots are hardware-centric generalists in an era when wealth is being created by turning out new, narrowly focused technology.
As Oki flounders in a proper way, EMC is enjoying textbook growth.
Three Japanese companies--Hitachi hit (nyse: hit - news - people), Toshiba and Oki Electric--have settled patent claims with Rambus.
Oki, meanwhile, may or may not get some growth out of its new telephone gear and remains as unfocused as it ever was.
Shinozuka diplomatically predicts that Oki's computer, telecom and chip units will account for the same shares of sales in three years as they do today.
Oki produces computers, telecom equipment, semiconductors and dozens of other products.
In a statement, OKI Europe said its parent company OKI Electric had recently announced "essential" restructuring of its global printer division to remain competitive and profitable.
Oki and its compatriots are hardware-centric generalists in an era when wealth is being created by turning out new, narrowly focused technology -- not me-too electronic boxes.
In 1992, when the firm was also in the red, then-president Jun Jinguji admitted publicly that competing with far larger rivals, Oki was unlikely to ever make money in semiconductors.
In 1992, when the firm was also in the red, then-president Jun Jinguji admitted publicly that Oki was unlikely to ever make money in semiconductors, competing with far larger rivals.
Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail-order, home- banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail order, home banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
Bisazza, the Italian firm famous for its mosaics, also broke with conventional wisdom when it launched the minimal, really-doesn't-say-bathroom-at-all "Nendo Collection, " designed by the Japanese architect Oki Sato, at the Milan Furniture Fair last week.
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