Information technology: re-engineering your business systems
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The adoption of information technology (IT) is not enough to guarantee the success of any business organization. Michael Hammer, in his 1990 Harvard Business Review article entitled 'Re-engineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate,' urges organizations to discard their old business systems and use their IT to develop and implement new and totally different processes. This re-engineering of processes and systems may be done by following several principles, including organizing based on outcomes instead of tasks, considering resources located in different places as centralized, connecting parallel tasks rather than consolidating their outcomes, and placing the responsibility for process performance on the very people who use the results of the process. The success of any re-engineering effort would depend largely on the support given by top management to such a project.
Publication Name: The Accountant's Magazine
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4761
Year: 1990
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Manufacturing: Competitive edge or corporate millstone?
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British manufacturers appear reluctant to invest in new technologies because they are not convinced the newer technologies are cost-effective, because they cannot adequately assess the costs of installing the newer technologies, and because of the communication gap between the technology designers and the managers of factories. Each of these reasons for ignoring new manufacturing technologies is analyzed and debunked. British corporations must adopt new technologies if they are to remain competitive on international markets. In addition, the relationship between lack of modern technology and factory closures is discussed.
Publication Name: The Accountant's Magazine
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4761
Year: 1986
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Quality and manufacturing: issues and information systems
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Manufacturing facilities are increasingly emphasizing analysis of quality-related expenses in the form of prevention, appraisal, internal failures, and external failures. Two popular methods of integrated manufacturing quality control are just-in-time technology and flexible manufacturing systems. The introduction of computer technology to the factory floor may considerably improve the situation as well. A recent survey of 33 firms in mechanical, electrical, and electronic engineering revealed that 29 use computers in production management to some extent.
Publication Name: The Accountant's Magazine
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4761
Year: 1988
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