 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - Business & Economics - 1999 - 132 pages
...wave of technology is the role of information. Prior to this IT revolution most of twentieth century business decisionmaking had been hampered by limited...the paucity of timely knowledge of customers' needs and of the location of inventories and materials flows throughout complex production systems, businesses... | |
 | Gavriel Salvendy - Business & Economics - 2001 - 2846 pages
...to the advent of whai has become a veritable avalanche of IT innovations, most of twentieth century business decision-making had been hampered by limited...the paucity of timely knowledge of customers' needs and of the location of inventories and materials flows throughout complex production systems, businesses... | |
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... costs. The availability of new technology to each company and its rivals affords both the opportunity and the competitive necessity of taking steps to reduce costs, which translates on a consolidated basis into increased national productivity. The... 