Technology
Technology We recall the case of a Japanese beverage firm that urgently needed a new order-processing system. No elaborate planning research was carried out, no formal capital-expenditure proposals were drawn up, and there was no bargaining between the interested parties about who should pay for what. The administrators of IT, finance, and planning sorted it out very quickly. Many conflicts between departments can be prevented when senior managers have overlapping obligations; integration and bonding can happen quite naturally. First, many Japanese managers spend two or three years, often towards their wishes, in an IT division as part of a job rotation scheme. The postings help them develop data that will prove useful in subsequent jobs. Using signals from each side of his mind, Chmielewski was capable of controll two prosthetic arms. With them, he might use a fork and a knife on the identical time to feed himself. A bracelet studded with electrodes can detect tiny nerve impulses o