Author: Insurance Accounting and Systems Association
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Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Proceedings of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association
Author: Insurance Accounting and Systems Association
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Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Publisher:
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Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Proceedings of the Insurance Accounting and Statistical Association
Author: Insurance Accounting and Statistical Association
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Accountants' Index
Author: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Proceedings of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Author: National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Meeting
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Author: Insurance Accounting and Statistical Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Structuring the Information Age
Author: JoAnne Yates
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801880865
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Structuring the Information Age provides insight into the largely unexplored evolution of information processing in the commercial sector and the underrated influence of corporate users in shaping the history of modern technology. JoAnne Yates examines how life insurance firms—where good record-keeping and repeated use of massive amounts of data were crucial—adopted and shaped information processing technology through most of the twentieth century. The book analyzes this process beginning with tabulating technology, the most immediate predecessor of the computer, and continuing through the 1970s with early computers. Yates elaborates two major themes: the reciprocal influence of information technology and its use, and the influence of past practices on the adoption and use of new technologies. In the 1950s, insurance industry leaders recognized that computers would enable them to integrate processes previously handled separately, but they also understood that they would have to change their ways of working profoundly to achieve this integration. When it came to choosing equipment and applications, most companies ultimately preferred a gradual, incremental migration to an immediate and radical transformation. In tracing this process, Yates shows that IBM's successful transition from tabulators to computers in part reflected that vendor's ability to provide large customers such as insurance companies with the necessary products to allow gradual change. In addition, this detailed industry case study helps explain information technology's so-called productivity paradox, showing that firms took roughly two decades to achieve the initial computerization and process integration that the industry set as objectives in the 1950s.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801880865
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Structuring the Information Age provides insight into the largely unexplored evolution of information processing in the commercial sector and the underrated influence of corporate users in shaping the history of modern technology. JoAnne Yates examines how life insurance firms—where good record-keeping and repeated use of massive amounts of data were crucial—adopted and shaped information processing technology through most of the twentieth century. The book analyzes this process beginning with tabulating technology, the most immediate predecessor of the computer, and continuing through the 1970s with early computers. Yates elaborates two major themes: the reciprocal influence of information technology and its use, and the influence of past practices on the adoption and use of new technologies. In the 1950s, insurance industry leaders recognized that computers would enable them to integrate processes previously handled separately, but they also understood that they would have to change their ways of working profoundly to achieve this integration. When it came to choosing equipment and applications, most companies ultimately preferred a gradual, incremental migration to an immediate and radical transformation. In tracing this process, Yates shows that IBM's successful transition from tabulators to computers in part reflected that vendor's ability to provide large customers such as insurance companies with the necessary products to allow gradual change. In addition, this detailed industry case study helps explain information technology's so-called productivity paradox, showing that firms took roughly two decades to achieve the initial computerization and process integration that the industry set as objectives in the 1950s.
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 2306
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 2306
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Proceedings of National Electric Light Association
Author: National Electric Light Association. Convention
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Category : Electric lighting
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category : Electric lighting
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Author: National Electric Light Association
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Category : Electric lighting
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : Electric lighting
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Journal of Accountancy
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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