Work Study: Volume 46 Issue 4
Table of contents
Webs ‐ a new strategy for the information age?
Defines webs as a cluster of companies which collaborate around a particular technology, and asserts that two preconditions are essential for their formation; states these to be a…
Radical Internet stirs up retailing
Reviews the impact of interactive marketing, and defines it as any kind of marketing which takes place through interactive media; details the trends in the numbers of people…
Easing information technology across cultural boundaries
Identifies the cultural boundaries in an organization that impede the implementation of information systems, and focuses on that between IT users and IT developers; uses the…
Cooking up a recipe for networking computing
Maintains that creating organisational networks for linking up PCs based upon Windows and Intel microprocessors will shortly be a relatively expensive option, and forecasts the…
Quality assuring the virtual business school
Reviews how International Management Centres (IMC) have used their world wide network to facilitate managerial learning in corporations, and points out how the Internet is now…
Ensuring manufacturing excellence
Maintains that manufacturing excellence needs to be extended to cover design, procurement, packaging and customer service, and highlights the characteristics of those…
Too many dinosaurs
Reviews how manufacturers have traditionally looked for ways of improving their control and planning methods, and chronicles how these developed into MRP and MRP II systems;…
World‐class manufacturing? ‐ not yet
Reviews the opinions of Bob Barker of the UK’s Hanson Electrical about the state of British manufacturing, and asserts that companies need to be aligned in support of the value…
The missing links
Summarises the speech made by Pat McCarthy of Information Engineering Group to the CIM Conference, and reviews the use of planning systems by British Industry; sees MRP systems as…
Erratum
This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/02632779710795456. When citing the…
Will the team ethic fit within your organization’s culture?
Claims that many attempts to introduce teamworking within organizations fail, and asserts that this is largely due to the underlying corporate culture; maintains that many…
Innovative, creative
Reports on the views of three keynote speakers at the Institute of Personnel and Development’s recent conference at Harrogate, UK, and presents their opinions on how to develop…