Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 86 Issue 1/2

Strategy for Information Technology: One Step Beyond

H. Scarbrough, R. Lannon, R. Hamilton

Information Technology (IT) may lead to a change in a company's methods and personnel skills, leading to stress and strain within the “culture” of the organisation, and challenge…

Putting Enterprise into Industry Year

Bruce Lloyd

The Business Graduates Association (BGA) launched Enterprise and Achievement Awards to students, or graduate MBAs, in 1986, whose entrepreneurial actions and achievements, in…

The Remploy Resource

Tom Jeffries

Remploy was set up in 1944 to provide meaningful work for those wounded in the Second World War within a company created to cater for their special needs with the financial and…

Taking the Stress out by Design

Roy D'Urban

Since 1970 ergonomics has gone a long way towards tackling the problem of optimising the interaction between people and technology in the working environment. When planning…

Electronic Publishing: A Powerful New Tool

Neil Bowyer

Electronic Publishing (EP) can radically improve the way organisations handle their information, retrieving information quickly from any location. Establishing a company database…

The Automated Office and Computer Crime: A Preliminary Assessment

Clive Blatchford

The opportunity for computer‐related crime in the automated office/distributed environment is greater than in the larger, centrally driven data‐processing facilities, where access…

The Management of Shareholder Concessions

Christopher J. Cowton

Many companies have introduced shareholder concession schemes, where the company provides a concession or “perk” on one or more of the company's products. Reasons for introducing…

Decision Making and the Project Team: A Model for Increasing Productivity

Bobby C. Vaught, Weldon H. Walker

Significant wage and material price increases, coupled with only slight increases in organisational productivity, are forcing some companies to question their present approach to…