Managerial Information Systems for Planning and Control

I wish to thank very much Messrs. Smith and Howard of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company for inviting me to speak before you. I am indeed delighted to be here. Nevertheless, I am mindful that I start from a rather disadvantageous position for two reasons « First of all it may be very difficult for me, even under the most auspicious of circumstances, to keep up with the overall tone of prepeiredness and quality that has been set by our hosts and the speakers before me, let alone when entering into the picture on a very short notice, But the greatest obstacle that I feel I