Setting up and running an information centre in a large UK chartered accountancy practice

Abstract

A few years ago, being possessed of some reasonable word processing services and an assortment of minicomputers, the partnership recognised that the time had come to co‐ordinate our existing office automation and to make a much greater investment in information technology. This was partly because continuing improvements in technology offered greater productivity, a matter of tremendous importance to all whose businesses are based on selling the time of their professional staff, partly because the consultancy side of the practice was already growing significantly by means of selling office automation services to clients, so one could see it was a good thing, and partly because we wished to retain our edge in the market place, the competition being just as important in accountancy as it is in any other type of business.

Citation

Bickerstaff, M. (1985), "Setting up and running an information centre in a large UK chartered accountancy practice", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 37 No. 3, pp. 147-155. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050959