Neil Fitzgerald, editor of CA magazine, in The Scotsman, Business section. .
“Can-do culture, empowerment, user-driven innovation, business process re-engineering, flat organisations, quality, short lines of communications and decision making. We are led to believe that these are radical, modern ideas. However, a book that has come into my hands shows that they were being successfully harnessed almost half a century ago, to create the most significant event ever in business management.
The editors … tell the story of how they and others built and put to work the world’s first business computer. This did not happen in California’s Silicon Valley, but at Cadby Hall, the … west London premises of Lyons.
An important facet was that they felt they should always take a strategic view of the whole function to be computerised and make recommendations for improvements before going to work.”