Back in 1983 I was chatting with Dick Coleman, publisher of Traffic World magazine, when he unexpectedly proposed that I write a column for the magazine on computer applications in the transportation/physical distribution industry. "But, Dick, I don't know all that much about computers," I protested. "You use one, don't you?" he asked logically. Yes, I did; I'd been running my consulting business with it for two years. But that didn't, I explained, make me an expert. "Think about it," he said. That's typical Coleman; he drops these studiedly casual ideas and just lets them lay there until you pick them up and wind up doing just what he wanted you to do all along. Sure enough, the longer I pondered the notion the more it appealed to me. OK, I wasn't a computer expert (I'm still not). But I was a computer user, in the transportation/distribution field; maybe from that perspective I might have some useful things to say to other transportation/distribution users and would-be users of computers. Thus was born the "Computer Software for Transportation" column. The first one appeared in the April 11, 1983, issue of Traffic World, and it's been a once-a-month schedule ever since. And thus, too, was ultimately born this book.
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.06.2012

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Barrett, Colin

Springer London, Limited

United States, United States of America

Springer Nature, New York, NY, 2012

Boston, MA, 1987

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Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Computer as a Management Tool....Pages 3-15
Computers as Information Providers....Pages 17-21
The Computer and Time Management....Pages 23-29
Distribution Modeling Techniques....Pages 31-35
Transportation Cost-Finding and the Computer....Pages 37-44
Computerization of Transportation Rates—A Viewpoint....Pages 45-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
The Manager and the Technician....Pages 59-65
Demands on the Computer User....Pages 67-79
You don’t have to be a Programmer. . .....Pages 81-84
Be your own Computer Expert....Pages 85-89
Keyboardphobia....Pages 91-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Justifying Computerization to Higher Management....Pages 101-105
’Selling’ Computerization in your Organization....Pages 107-112
MIS -Management and MIS-Management....Pages 113-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
The Problems of Starting up....Pages 123-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
The Failings of Security....Pages 137-143
Computers and Foreign Travel....Pages 145-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
A Guide to Programming ‘Languages’....Pages 149-152
Word-Processing....Pages 153-162
Spreadsheets....Pages 163-167
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Data-Base Managers....Pages 169-173
Free Software—How to Get it and Use it....Pages 175-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Some Rules for Buying Software....Pages 183-198
Shopping for Software—A Personal Approach....Pages 199-201
The Meaning of ‘User-Friendliness’....Pages 203-212
User Manuals and Their Problems....Pages 213-214
Aftermarket Support for Software....Pages 215-217
Things to Watch out for with Software....Pages 219-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
About Piracy....Pages 229-234
The Importance of Backups....Pages 235-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Using a RAM Disk....Pages 245-252
‘Bugs’....Pages 253-254
Monochrome Screens and their One Color....Pages 255-256
Modems and Telephone Lines....Pages 257-258
Planning for System Upgrades....Pages 259-265
Back Matter....Pages 267-317

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