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- Title
THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE IN OFFICE AUTOMATION.
- Authors
Meyer, N. Dean
- Abstract
The article emphasizes the need for close collaboration between management scientists and office automation professionals to ensure office automation success and effectiveness. The fields of management science and office automation have a great deal in common: both attempt to make new business techniques and procedures useful to the business community; both find themselves delivering computer-based tools to professionals; both are altering the information handling capabilities of their user organizations; and both recognize large gaps between the potential of their technologies and the realities of their utilization. In fact, thoughtful office automation professionals include management science techniques among the tools they may implement in the service of user managers; i.e., they view management science as a "subset" of office automation. To the extent that office automation professionals structure previously unstructured information processes in the organization, their role appears very similar to common definitions of the function of management science.
- Subjects
OFFICE practice automation; MANAGEMENT science; COMPUTER integrated manufacturing systems; OPERATIONS research; ROBOTICS; INDUSTRIAL productivity
- Publication
Interfaces, 1980, Vol 10, Issue 1, p72
- ISSN
0092-2102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/inte.10.1.72