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This paper presents a manufacturing systems engineering view of important issues relating to IT research and development. It argues for an approach to the next phase of information technology development which is heavily based on real-world applications with the dominant influences held by educated users and engineers who have added computing skills, rather than information technologists. It argues for ‘consolidation’ with particular attention to total systems integration and an emphasis on the need to professionally engineer the human interface.
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Dale, M. A Manufacturing Systems Engineering View of IT and Development. J Inf Technol 2, 114–118 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.1987.23
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.1987.23