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The role of the board and the director
J.E.V. TYZACKIF I had to choose a text under which to write this article it would be “A board is not a necessity for management”. I will come back to this point at the end.
Corporate self‐renewal
P.E. HAGGERTYTexas Instruments Inc. is now the 138th largest company in the USA with earnings of $580m. and plans for reaching $3 000m. in 1976. Its UK subsidiary began operations 10 years ago…
Cost/benefit analysis of a test market
GORDON WILLSOne of the most intractable problems facing marketing managements today is to know when to buy marketing research to enhance their understanding of the probability of success…
Mathematical models in retailing
ALAN MERCERLAST April, when he announced his recommendations concerning the detergent industry, the then President of the Board of Trade told the House of Commons that too little was known…
Pyramids of disillusion
Brandon Rhys Williams“The difficulties now all too commonly encountered in industry, commerce and the civil service, result from the attempt to combine the pyramidal structure with both continuity of…
CHOOSING A COMPUTER
TOM WARD“The outstanding fact about the application of computers in the UK is that in general management has little or no knowledge of the real nature of the information explosion which…
TECHNIQUES IN ACTION: Landscaped offices
T.A. SCRUTTONOffice landscaping eliminates the numerous little boxes which often constitute an office system, saves duplication of numerous services and overcomes barriers to effective…
MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS: Management Services
TOM WARDBusiness and industrial management in the UK has always prided itself on its practicality, despite Keynes' observation that the practical man is usually the slave of some outdated…
Things did not turn out as expected
GORDON E. WHEELEROne of the rewards of success for the company director is that he is unlikely to be called upon to explain his policies publicly and that, consequent upon success, shareholders…
Performance management, organization and practice for results
VICTOR SMITH“One of the main causes of company ineffiency is the absence of clearly defined objectives. A great many companies operate on the assumption that their objectives are self‐evident…
DESIGN MANAGEMENT
L. BRUCE ARCHER“The design act consists of a problem‐solving activity which is goal‐directed and is identical in kind with those problems familiar to management students and decision theorists”
The Management Apprentice
R.W. REVANS“Even supposing that university teaching in traditional fields is an effective investment this is no reason to assume that management studies are also profitable in the same…
THE MANAGEMENT PRENTICE: a practitioner's views
T. KempnerIT MUST BE 10 years since I first heard Dr. Revans lecture. He was in as much demand then, as he is now, to grace those symbolic occasions when management is exhorted about…
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