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Vision and Value: Getting the Most out of Microcomputers
Vision and Value: Getting the Most out of Microcomputers
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We are moving from the automation of structured tasks of the first 10 to 15 years of the computer revolution into the support of unstructured tasks, the support of managerial activity. Much of the discussion in this book concerning end-user computing and managerial support uses words and ideas that have been around for years.
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New clevelopments will allow easy movement between windows and create open systems that can interact with other hardware and applications software systems in which each of the five elements is not compromised by being part of an integrated system. The design objectives of such systems is to produce individual applications that are just as good as the avail
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Although it is a significant departure from their traditional role of information processing, more and more the responsibility of IS managers to educate is being termed critical to their success. Bennett outlines a very successful program at United Technologies to educate 1,000 senior managers.
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I know one IS manager who put his career in jeopardy by walking around his executive suite and picking up floppy disks left on the top of file cabinets. When he took them back to his office, he found that he had all of the corporation's recent and projected financial data, the latest competitive analysis, and some sensitive data about personnel salaries for the leacling 100 people in the corporation.
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Alastair Omand one of the few senior IS people who report to the executive committee of a very large corporation believes there are two major issues raised by microcomputers in organizations that the chief executive officer (CEO) should really worry about.
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Several essays in this volume refer to Gibson and Nolan's stages of growth curve, which can also be called a technology learning curve. Gibson and Nolan first published their article on the four stages of growth at a time when we were approaching maturity in the earliest data processing technology learning curve.
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level, there are analysts who are clearly the prime target for the new tools of the technology. How are we to derive value for these three defined users of microcomputer technology?
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It is the business of making microcomputers or any personal computing technology work to support the people within the organization. Like any business, its primary obj ective is getting business value.
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