Reliance on executive information systems has tailed off, but the software could be revived in the run-up to the year 2000 and well beyond, writes Clive Couldwell
The idea that a senior executive should use a computer was still a Buck Rogers-type fantasy in 1976 when Ben Heineman, chief executive of Northwest Industries, began using a terminal to monitor and...
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