Goldstone L
Health Soc Serv J. 1980 Jul 25;90(4703):974-6.
When the calculators do the calculating, the managers can do the managing. Len Goldstone of the UMIST Department of Management Sciences examines how close we are to that ideal. There are, he says, calculators of three levels of complexity and price, but warns that tomorrow's manager may find even the most sophisticated of today's instruments clumsy compared to the mini-computers now being developed.
当计算器进行计算时,管理者就可以进行管理。曼彻斯特理工大学管理科学系的伦·戈德斯通研究了我们距离这一理想状态有多近。他说,有三种复杂程度和价格各异的计算器,但他警告称,与目前正在研发的微型计算机相比,未来的管理者可能会发现,即便如今最先进的仪器也显得笨拙。