Can Computers Help Management?
Can Computers Help Management? Is British industry and commerce really aware of the possibilities of computers as a scientific aid to management? This was one of the questions which arose at a conference in Bristol last week on the Computer Co-operative. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 5th 1961. The story continues: It was organised by the Bristol Branch of the British Computer Society. Mr.P. J. Loorij, of the Society for Central Electronic Administration, The Hague, said that the computer co-operative which he manages in the Netherlands was initia...