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Group: organizations
accounting
Topic:
civilization and society
Topic:
commitment
Topic:
contingency and strategic planning
Topic:
corporations and institutions
Topic:
customer-centered marketing
Topic:
economics
Topic:
government
Topic:
importance of market share
Topic:
legal issues
Topic:
management
Topic:
managing people
Topic:
marketing
Topic:
marketing technical products and innovations
Topic:
micropayment systems
Topic:
military and war
Topic:
religion
Topic:
responsibility
Topic:
software patents
communication
Group:
coordination system
Group:
systems
Topic:
quality assurance
Topic:
roles
Topic:
task communication
Topic:
team programming
Summary
An organization is a system for managing resources, meeting deadlines, managing ideas and their meanings, managing values, concentrating resources, channeling motivations, defining responsibilities, constraining activities and resources, tracking transactions, productive activity by a group of people, and managing communications.Computers have a strong effect upon organizations which use them. (cbb 7/83)
Subtopic: achieving goals
Quote: office organizations are creative problem solvers, bargainers, and exception handlers [»liskB10_1981]
Subtopic: as limitation of resources
Quote: Goethe--achieve goals by tyrannical power or single-mindedness; the later is available to all [»vonmV_1832] Quote: fitful, capricious action interferes with the natural course of things; no guarantee of progress Quote: err and err and err again, but less and less and less [»knutDE7_1989]
Subtopic: as ideas
Quote: an organization is the artificial, well-structured, limitation of resources [»petrCA10_1979]
Subtopic: document retention
Quote: organizations are systems composed of ideas, the meanings of which must be managed [»peteTJ_1982]
Subtopic: voting
Quote: if an organization keeps all of its documents, searchers must wade through irrelevant information to find important documents; this noise degrades search performance [»blaiDC1_1996]
Subtopic: interest and boundary
Quote: remote electronic voting does not work for public elections; too many insecure facilities/programs and too little scrutiny [»rubiAD12_2002]
Quote: the greater the INTERESTS of an ORGANIZATION the sharper the boundaries
[»holtAW_1997]
Topic: accounting (10 items)
Topic: civilization and society (20 items)
Topic: commitment (31 items)
Topic: contingency and strategic planning (22 items)
Topic: corporations and institutions (8 items)
Topic: customer-centered marketing (17 items)
Topic: economics (21 items)
Topic: government (35 items)
Topic: importance of market share (11 items)
Topic: legal issues (22 items)
Topic: management (27 items)
Topic: managing people (64 items)
Topic: marketing (12 items)
Topic: marketing technical products and innovations (17 items)
Topic: micropayment systems (8 items)
Topic: military and war (36 items)
Topic: religion (50 items)
Topic: responsibility (12 items)
Topic: software patents
(7 items)
Group: communication (27 topics, 819 quotes)
Group: coordination system (8 topics, 217 quotes)
Group: systems (17 topics, 530 quotes)Topic: quality assurance (22 items)
Topic: roles (21 items)
Topic: task communication (49 items)
Topic: team programming
(7 items)