Calculators: managing with technology.
When the calculators do the calculating, the managers can do the managing. Len Goldstone of the UMIST Department of Management Sciences examines how close we are to that ideal. There are, he says, calculators of three levels of complexity and price, but warns that tomorrow's manager may find even the most sophisticated of today's instruments clumsy compared to the mini-computers now being developed.
D005376:Financial Management; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D009874:Operations Research; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013672:Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*