Information Technology: Servant or Master?

Information technology has tremendous potential as a tool of management in developing ever more sophisticated ways of handling management information. But it can never do away with the need for management, the process of using human ingenuity and creativity to come up with practical solutions to rea...

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Main Author: Morris, T
Format: Journal article
Published: 1989
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description Information technology has tremendous potential as a tool of management in developing ever more sophisticated ways of handling management information. But it can never do away with the need for management, the process of using human ingenuity and creativity to come up with practical solutions to real problems. There is a danger that the technology could be used to diminish the human dimension of management.
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