Quantitative forecasting techniques see their greatest application as part of production and inventory systems. Perhaps unfortunately, the problem has been left to systems analysts while the professional societies have contented themselves with exhortations to improve forecasting, neglecting...

Beard, Academic Librarian extraordinaire, explains how West Georgia College affects not only his community with its services to all comers — including youth — but how the bottom line for libraries is impacted throughout the state. Beard's message centers on the key role cooperative...

Formal, planned communication between all types of libraries and “telling the state's library story” resulted in the largest single appropriation of new money to libraries, from the state lottery, in Georgia history. This climax follows a string of funding accomplishments including a 20...

An empirical investigation of the relative emphasis placed by high‐tech firms on various sources of competitive advantage. Five strategies are identified. The most widely used, called “balanced”, employs a number of different sources of competitive advantage. One strategy is based heavily...