Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Optimizing the Value Chain on Desktop Workstations
About twenty years ago, managers began to sense that emerging information technologies could provide timely data which, when used to integrate diverse activities, would allow costs to be significantly reduced. In most companies, however, accomplishing integration proved elusive because harnessing the new technologies proved much more difficult than anticipated. Some firms have taken ten years, or more, to create and organize the data bases and computer infrastructure upon which to establish integrated planning and control.
This situation is changing radically. Many companies have finally assembled reasonably complete and accessible corporate information systems. As a result, managers are actively seeking new tools for analyzing their large, numerical data bases to identify strategies for reducing costs and improving competitive advantage.
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