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In the second of this series of classics from Management Decision in the 1960s, we feature a fascinating article entitled “Brave New Business” from 1967. Dr Alan Crawford, then head of operational research at IPC, speculates on the “ideal” company of the 1970s. The application questions at the end were not part of the original.

My basic principal in planning the new organisation is that managers require relevant information. Relevant in the sense of being available when decision is required, and also of being highly digested and without a mass of unwanted detail. The information to be made available to managers for decisions about the on‐going processes of the business will exist to affect their actions—not to invite their perusal. Thus we are deliberately setting out to reverse the trend in businesses where managers have been getting ever greater quantities of data at ever greater speeds.

In the 1960s those on the political left flattered themselves that the vast number of publications by socialists, anarchists, feminists, and other groups on that wing of the political spectrum were evidence of the rich intellectual life of the struggle to create a progressive America. Conversely, the lack of publishing by the right was evidence of a general lack of intelligence. But that was then, and this is most certainly now. The right in America has moved from margin to center over the last two decades, vindicating former Attorney General John Mitchell's boast that “the country is going so far to the right that you won't recognize it.”

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A SKELETAL structure is defined as one which can be ideally represented by linear (one‐dimensional) members appropriately connected at point nodes. The members are not necessarily straight or in one plane. The term structure will be used to denote a skeletal structure.

This book, sponsored by the Taft Fund of the University of Cincinnati, is not a text‐book of Hydrodynamics in the accepted sense: it is not a book that a university student would use for examination purposes.

The petty level insurance fraud, apparently committed by ordinary members of the community, is costing insurance companies millions of pounds a year. Those losses are passed on to the consumer. So it is everyone's loss. This problem appears to be prevalent in all Western countries However, it is in the USA where they appear to have both learnt and lost the most. As the problems in the UK are appearing to reach the scale of those which have already been encountered in the USA, law enforcement agencies and the insurance companies can ill afford to ignore the lessons learnt by the Americans. This paper describes the types of insurance frauds and those measures being undertaken to counter them in the USA. In so doing, the author has created a typology of those counter measures being undertaken.