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AN EXPANDING MARKET FOR HEAD SHRINKING
PEOPLE who believe in psychologists need their heads examined…this is my favourite among Sam Goldwyn's renowned and generally apocryphal dicta. I thought of this recently when I…
BUY BRITISH? IT'S A RECIPE FOR DISASTER
Walter GoldsmithWHO could object to the concept of Buying British wherever possible? The very suggestion to the contrary seems not only unpatriotic, but damaging to hard pressed British companies…
Colour has a crucial role to play in the field of industrial safety
FROM January 1st next year, Britain's workplaces will be required by law to make sure all their safety signs and colours conform to a European standard. The requirement has come…
SLAKING INDUSTRY'S GREAT THIRST FOR PURE WATER
David M. MoreauUNTIL recently, water was the Cinderella of chemical raw materials. This is despite the bizarre fact, on which biology depends, that water is so hospitable to life that 30 seconds…
Baby, it's cold outside—so lock your heat in with a cavity!
FOR some years now the high cost of telephone calls has been a source of concern to management and considerable effort has been expended in companies across the country in order…
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING
THE STORY of British industrial progress, profitability and growth over the last two decades is a sad and sorry saga of lost opportunities and drawn‐in horns. The men, the…
The Rolls Royce of venues: Alec Snobel checks in for a taste of Imperial splendour
GENERAL MANAGER Harry Murray was telling me that his Imperial Hotel is the acme of conference centres when I noticed on his reservations chart a booking for the launch of a new…
Better safe than sorry!
Says J.W. LevyTHREE out of four safes in use in Britain today are estimated to be at least 60 years old. As the average person has little cause to consider the subject of safes at all it is…
NEW WAYS TO MAKE YOUR FACTORY CRIME‐PROOF
Davis MatthewsFIVE years ago, an integrated circuit within a security system was something of a rarity. Systems tended to be based on relay or simple electronic technology ‐ often with a…
YOUR COMMENTS ARE INVITED
TRAINING has a key role to play in helping to solve the country's economic and social problems in the 1980s, and Britain's training effort must be geared to make an effective…
IS YOUR MANUFACTURING UNDER CONTROL?
In the dynamic area of production it is vitally important to control, rather than simply react to, change. This requires immediate access to accurate, up‐to‐date information which…
BOOKS
More and more and up and up is the message relayed by the latest edition of that Bible of the computer industry, the Computer Users' Year Book. Even salaries of data processing…
FIXED ASSET ACCOUNTING CAN BE FLEXIBLE
As from this year all but the smallest companies are required to include lists of fixed assets in their current cost accounting. Whatever method used, the recording and processing…
EXHIBITIONS
There are two major exhibitions in November which, between them, can be relied upon to provide something of interest to just about everybody who is interested in data processing.
ISSN:
0263-5577Renamed from:
Industrial ManagementOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Alain Yee Loong Chong
- Prof Hing Kai Chan