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AN INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION SERVICE: The EFFECTS OF GROWTH ON ITS ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION

D.V. ARNOLD (Intelligence Section Manager, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd, Heavy Organic Chemicals Division)

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 1 August 1964

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Abstract

When I was asked to give a paper at this conference the subject as presented to me was ‘the organization of information in a large company’, and I accepted this at its face value. As I thought about it, however, I wondered whether it might not be more interesting to give a reasonable amount of attention to the growth aspect as well as to the eventual stage when an information service can justifiably be called ‘large’; in other words, I might try to indicate—as I saw them—some of the changes in, and consequent problems of, a company information service as it develops from its infancy. I have no intention of defining what I mean by the word ‘large’—someone once said that a small organization is one that is destined to become medium sized, the medium sized is one preparing to grow large and a large one is one that wishes it were small—and would instead refer you to the Aslib survey in which this question of size of information services is given some consideration. I shall have to hope that when you finally hear, in the description I give you, of the amount of time that has to be given to various activities and the number of different activities that have to be performed, you will agree that I am referring to what may reasonably be called a large information service.

Citation

ARNOLD, D.V. (1964), "AN INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION SERVICE: The EFFECTS OF GROWTH ON ITS ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 16 No. 8, pp. 234-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049977

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MCB UP Ltd

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