Managing microcomputers in large organisations

✍ Scribed by National Research Council

• Publisher: National Research Council
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The information age is taking its toll on traditional office management techniques, where organizations have to devise a strategy for understanding how [a microcomputer's] performance can be monitored. This book presents 20 essays that include the theme of 'unleashed creativity', and is useful for managers.

✦ Table of Contents

1 Front Matter
2 Overview
3 Vision and Value: Getting the Most out of Microcomputers
4 The Organizational Issues
5 I. Small Computer Technology: Where We Are and Where We
6 Introduction
7 Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: Trends in Microcomputer Technology
8 Trends in Personal Computer Software
9 Personal Computer Networks
10 II. Small Computers in Large Organizations: The Implications
11 Introduction
12 Managing Uncontrollable Growth
13 Managed Innovation: Controlling End-User Computing in the Federal Government
14 Personal Computers and the Office of the Future
15 III. Managing Microcomputers: The Issues
16 Introduction
17 A Perspective for the Chief Executive Officer
18 Managing Microcomputers and End-User Computing: Some Critical Issues
19 Regaining Control Through Centralized Action
20 IV. Managing Microcomputers: Case Studies
21 Introduction
22 Productivity Through Automation
23 Managing Microcomputers in State and Local Government
24 The User Era
25 Personal Computing, Not Personal Computers
26 Control Through Persuasion
27 Index