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\\1 4I V\ 0 \U \ • ��' 4GT When the CHIPS A R EDOWN, Try Services Pushed by a cool mainframe-computer market, Control Data Systems, the other Control Data Corporation spinoff, now applies its computer expertise to integrating networks and computer services. Will James Ousley be able to move the company in a new direction while still pleasing shareholders? B Y • K E V I N R E 1 C H A R D isiting Control Data Systems Arden because it represents a huge decrease in the and Ceridian],we knew it would be a long Hills facility is a little like walking number of CDS employees(although it does transition.Like any large undertaking,it's tak- 1through a ghost town.There's no stream represent a decrease).but that employees are ing us longer than we thought it would."says 7 sof visitors at the front desk,and a walk actually out in the field,dealing directly with Ousley.with a sigh."If I could do this over down an extremely long hallway yields few customers.That focus on customer concerns,he again.I would start this It)years ago." signs of life. It wasn't always this way—at its says.is at the heart of the new Control Data. "When they originally were spun off,the peak.more than 3.000 employees crammed this The new Control Data still is a work in feeling was that they could make that transi- facility,industriously plotting the future of corn- progress.however.While the gap is shrinking lion without a lot of pain,and they could turn pitting;today"less than a third of that number between where Control Data was and where this big ship around."says Clint Morrison"an work in the huge Arden Hills facility,and by Jim Ousley wants to take the company.it's still analyst with John G.Kinnard and Company of and large they perform administrative tasks. noticeable—and the time needed to narrow that Minneapolis."The reality has set in:the transi- The seeming depopulation is a sign of sue- gap has been longer than anyone anticipated. non can't he painless.It's going a little slower cess,says CDS president James E.Ousley.not -When we made the decision[to split CDS than they thought.and it's time to step up to • 4G-.- FEBRUARY 1995 TWIN CITIES BUSINESS MONTHLY ' PHOTOGRAPHY BY WARWICK GREEN