158:, based on his studies at the Harvard Business School, was published by Van Nostrand in 1952. Owing to independent research and ever-persistent curiosity about the whole field of technology, he originated many of the concepts of data processing and utilization that are accepted today in both automation and management. This book was reissued unchanged on its 30th anniversary as a “management classic” by the American Management Association. He is credited with coining the word
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Starting at the founding of the firm, in 1954, Diebold found himself in a unique leadership role of teacher and concepts innovator. He recognized at the outset that computers meant much more than mechanization of existing systems. Instead, they would open hitherto undreamed of opportunities to do new
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From its founding to its sale in 1991, the firm and John
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John
Diebold & Associates soon grew into The Diebold Group, which played a unique and often central role in the development of the information technology industry. John Diebold and his company were responsible for the creation of new products and services as well as in the definition of the IT
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1968 founded The
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Working through and with the senior managements of the largest and best run corporations in the world, John
Diebold and his firm had an impact that went far beyond their small professional firm. There was a multiplier effect with widespread dissemination through these organizations, their
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Central to all of this was the insight that for computers to achieve their potential they had to be viewed as management and strategy tools. The firm's leadership was evident not only in technical innovations but also in the highest level of strategic planning.
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role in the management of businesses and governments. His original wish to play a role in and to contribute to the development of a few of the formative issues that changes the world in which we live was fulfilled.
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Volume 5. Managing
Information: The Challenge and the Opportunity, Foreword by Thornton F. Bradshaw,Chairman, RCA Corporation. American Management Associations, 1985
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Volume 1. Beyond
Automation: Managerial Problems of an Exploding Technology. Foreword: Peter F. Drucker. McGraw Hill, 1964; Republished by PraegerPublishers, 1970
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effort to assess the value of information technology in public infrastructures: health care; road transportation; education; communications and public safety.
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Volume 4. The Role of Business in Society. Foreword by James L. Hayes, Chairman, American Management Associations. American Management Associations, 1982
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Vanessa VonderPorten, married in 1982; Emma Diebold, daughter, John Diebold, son
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Managing Information: The Challenge and the Opportunity, 1985
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Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry
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