No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The conference offered participants a challenging examinatior, of issues, problems and new opportunities facing today's senior intormation executive. The essential objectives of the 1981 Conference Program were: i 1) to examine emerging areas of responsibility fot the senior information executive, and to focus on .those areas which have not had sufficient visibility in the profession until now, (2) to speak to the role of the information executive as a senior member of the management team, not as an isolated steward of a technology-driven function, and (3) to bring to the profession new and relevant mformation on critical management issues. The emphasis was on managerial issues, managerial skills, and managerial tools, and to the extent possible a practical case study approach was taken to the Is-Jes under discussion. Under this year's theme: People-Performance-Productivity: The New MIS Agenda, the conference featured several thought-provoking focus sessions, sign;ficant lectures, panel discussions and high-quality workshops, all delivered! and/or led by distinguished authorities in the area. A report on the SMIS 1981 Annual Conference is presented below.
Productivity Growth in Japan and the U.S.
A5 the chief U.S. representative for the organizatie;: that has helped spearhead Japan's phenomenal productivity Increases, J. Arai (Japan Productivity Center. Washington, DC.) is well-positioned to analyze the reasons why his nation is succeeding in areas where the U.S. is faltering. Arai discussed the facts and the myths of Japanese productivity in a message that needs to be understood by every senior manager. He noted, for instance, that in a recent study, a value
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