INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR CITY MANAGEMENT,

摘要

New capability to handle and analyze information invites (city) managers to think of better ways to use it in decisions. Information,of course,can only indicate;action (or inaction) remains the province of people. So managers need fear no loss of their jobs to machines and technicians. A greater fear should be that the capability of modern technology and technique,which is being applied with steady progress in business and Federal operations,will remain untapped by cities because it appears too big,too complicated or too far out. A companion danger is that managers will limit their interest in using data processing equipment to searching only for ways to reduce the cost of information handling. Far more significant benefits await the manager who exploits the equipment to supply and analyze the data on which major municipal decisions are based. (Author)