# §Bell Labs Model ### Questions * [[Why was Bell Labs Different?]] * [[Why hasn’t Bell Labs been replicated?]] * [[Was Bell Labs an anomaly?]] ### Conclusions * [[Bell Labs and AT+T had timescale alignment]] * [[Bell Labs is one of the few examples of an innovation org that was aligned with its money factory]] * [[Bell labs had a budget of 2.8 billion 2020 dollars]] * [[Bell Labs was only profitable in conjunction with AT+T]] * [[AT+T benefitted significantly from creating better technology]] * [[Regulation drove many of Bell Labs’ actions]] * [[All the work at Bell Labs needed to tie back to the system]] * [[Bell Labs empowered young people]] * [[Bell Labs hired people before they had a role or expertise]] * [[The work at Bell Labs that was most valuable to AT+T and the work that was most valuable to the world was fairly disjoint]] * [[The famed bell labs research was a fraction of their activity]] * [[Bell labs was primarily not researchers]] * [[Bell labs brought many disciplines together under the same roof and broke down barriers between them]] * [[Bell Labs did not give researchers complete freedom]] * [[Bell labs asked people to do useful things but left them room to say huh that’s funny]] * [[Bell Labs management was extremely light]] * [[Bell Labs didn’t have a unique model]] * [[Bell Labs selected for people with only academic pedigrees and with a sense of adventure]] * [[Bell Labs was not a business]]==NW== * [[Bell labs existed before continuous improvement was expected]] ==NW - stub== * [[Bell Labs was a dance of individuals and institution, prototyping and manufacturing, invention and discovery]]==NW== * - [[Bell Labs enabled free radicals]]