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Calculators: managing with technology. 1980

L Goldstone

When the calculators do the calculating, the managers can do the managing. Len Goldstone of the UMIST Department of Management Sciences examines how close we are to that ideal. There are, he says, calculators of three levels of complexity and price, but warns that tomorrow's manager may find even the most sophisticated of today's instruments clumsy compared to the mini-computers now being developed.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009874	Operations Research	A group of techniques developed to apply scientific methods and tools to solve the problems of DECISION MAKING in complex organizations and systems. Operations research searches for optimal solutions in situations of conflicting GOALS and makes use of mathematical models from which solutions for actual problems may be derived. (From Psychiatric Dictionary, 6th ed)	Operational Research,Research, Operational,Research, Operations
D005376	Financial Management	The obtaining and management of funds for institutional needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs.	Endowments,Financial Activities,Funds,Activities, Financial,Activity, Financial,Endowment,Financial Activity,Fund,Management, Financial
D006270	Health Facility Administrators	Managerial personnel responsible for implementing policy and directing the activities of health care facilities such as nursing homes.	Administrator, Health Facility,Administrators, Health Facility,Facility Administrator, Health,Facility Administrators, Health,Health Facility Administrator
D013223	Statistics as Topic	Works about the science and art of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data that are subject to random variation.	Area Analysis,Estimation Technics,Estimation Techniques,Indirect Estimation Technics,Indirect Estimation Techniques,Multiple Classification Analysis,Service Statistics,Statistical Study,Statistics, Service,Tables and Charts as Topic,Analyses, Area,Analyses, Multiple Classification,Area Analyses,Classification Analyses, Multiple,Classification Analysis, Multiple,Estimation Technic, Indirect,Estimation Technics, Indirect,Estimation Technique,Estimation Technique, Indirect,Estimation Techniques, Indirect,Indirect Estimation Technic,Indirect Estimation Technique,Multiple Classification Analyses,Statistical Studies,Studies, Statistical,Study, Statistical,Technic, Indirect Estimation,Technics, Estimation,Technics, Indirect Estimation,Technique, Estimation,Technique, Indirect Estimation,Techniques, Estimation,Techniques, Indirect Estimation
D013672	Technology	The application of scientific knowledge to practical purposes in any field. It includes methods, techniques, and instrumentation.	Industrial Arts,Arts, Industrial