Managerial Implications of Integrated Business Operations

Culliton James C. , “Age of Synthesis,” Harvard Business Review, XI:4 (Sept.-Oct. 1962), 181.

For a representative sample of current thinking in this area, please see the following references: Ewell James M. , “How to Organize for a Total System,” Systems and Procedures, XII:6 (Nov.-Dec. 1961), 4–8; Johnson Richard A. , The Theory and Management of Systems (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1963); McDonough Adrian M. , Information Economics and Management Systems (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1963); Neuschel Richard F. , Management by System (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1960); Gallegher James D. , Management Information Systems and The Computer, American Management Association, Research Study Series, No. 51 (New York: 1961); Putman Arnold O. , Unified Operations Management (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1963).

Drucker Peter , “Long-Range Planning—Challenge to Management Science,” Management Science, V:3 (April 1959), 238–249.

Ewell James M. , “How to Organize for a Total System,” loc. cit., 6.

Chane George W. , “Centralized Administrative Management; the Need, the Promise, the Challenge,” Shaping a New Concept of Administrative Management, American Management Association (New York: 1961), p. 12.

Smith James W. , “A General Management Computer System,” Computer Based Management for Information and Control, American Management Association, Management Bulletin 36 (New York: 1963), pp. 12–13.

Forrester Jay W. , Industrial Dynamics (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1961), p. vii.

Alexander Samuel N. , “A Progress Report,” Office Management Series No. 144, American Management Association (New York: 1956), p. 6.

Milroy Neil , “The Disintegration of an Information System,” The Canadian Chartered Accountant (May 1963).

McDonough Adrian M. , Information Economics and Management Systems, loc. cit., p. 14.

See Kozmetsky George Kircher Paul , Electronic Computers and Management Control (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1956), pp. 172–173, for comments regarding the inclusion of informal information within a formal system of communication.

See Simon H. Guetzkow H. Kozmetsky G. Tyndall G. , Centralization v. Decentralization in Organizing the Controller's Department (New York: Controllership Foundation, Inc., 1954).

For illustrative example of requirements of a management information system, see: Evans M. K. Hayne L. R. , “Master Plan for Information System,” Harvard Business Review, XL:I (1962), 92–98.

Geisler M. A. Steger W. A. , “How to Plan for Management in New Systems,” Harvard Business Review, XL:5 (1962), 103–110.

For a detailed description, see General Information Manual Management Operating System for Manufacturing Industries, International Business Machines Corporation (1960).

For a detailed description, see Klein H. E. , “Production's New Brew: Instant Data,” Dun's Review and Modern Industry, LXXXII:4 (Oct. 1963), 38–113.

Cream Martin J. , “The Total-Integration Approach in Business Systems for R & S,” Control Through Information, American Management Association, Management Bulletin 24, pp. 28–36.

Smith Theodore A. , “From Burden to Opportunity: The Revolution in Data Processing,” The Changing Dimensions of Official Management, American Management Association, Management Report 41 (New York: 1960), pp. 27–28.

Forrester J. W. , “Industrial Dynamics: A Major Breakthrough for Decision Makers,” Harvard Business Review, XXXVI:4 (1958), 39. Additional insight may be obtained by reviewing the latest developments in industrial dynamics as reported by Roberts E. B. , “New Directions in Industrial Dynamics,” Industrial Management Review, VI:1 (Fall 1964).

See, for example, Kagdis J. Lackner M. R. , “A Management Control Systems Simulation Model,” Management Technology, III:2 (Dec. 1963), 145–159.

“Some Reflections on Computers and History,” Bell Telephone Magazine, Spring 1964, p. 11.

Leavitt H. J. , “Dealing with Management Obsolescence,” Computer-Based Management for Information and Control, American Management Association, Management Bulletin 31 (New York: 1964), p. 51.