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Managing Microcomputers in large organizations / Board on Telecommunications and Computer Applications, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business--Data processing--Management--Congresses.
- Business.
- Office practice--Automation--Management--Congresses.
- Office practice.
- Microcomputers--Congresses.
- Microcomputers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1985.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The information age is taking its toll on traditional office management techniques. According to Infosystems , "If you're cautious of experts' who claim to have all the answers, then you'll find comfort in the theme of unleashed creativity' that recurs throughout the 20 essays presented in this book. . . . Organizations will have to devise a strategy for understanding how a microcomputer's] performance can be monitored. Regardless of what may happen, this book provides managers with appropriate ammunition."
- Contents:
- Managing Microcomputers in Large Organizations
- Copyright
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- OVERVIEW
- Vision and Value Getting the Most out of Microcomputers
- The Organizational Issues
- PART I SMALL COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE'RE HEADED
- Introduction
- Faster, Smaller, Cheaper Trends in Microcomputer Technology
- Trends in Personal Computer Software
- Personal Computer Networks
- PART II SMALL COMPUTERS IN LARGE ORGANIZATIONS THE IMPLICATIONS
- Managing Uncontrollable Growth
- Managed Innovation Controlling End-User Computing in the Federal Government
- Personal Computers and the Office of the Future
- PART III MANAGING MICROCOMPUTERS THE ISSUES
- A Perspective for the Chief Executive Officer
- Managing Microcomputers and End-User Computing Some Critical Issues
- Regaining Control Through Centralized Action
- PART IV MANAGING MICROCOMPUTERS CASE STUDIES
- Productivity Through Automation
- Managing Microcomputers in State and Local Government
- The User Era
- Personal Computing, Not Personal Computers
- Control Through Persuasion
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Based on papers presented at a forum held in Nov. 1983.
- ISBN:
- 9786610222223
- 9781280222221
- 1280222220
- 9780309541442
- 0309541441
- 9780585144337
- 0585144338
- OCLC:
- 427404706
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