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Autumn 2012 Volume 56 No 3 ISSN 0 307 6768


Management Services 27 Castle Street, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2PX


Editorial Telephone +44 (0)1795 542429 Facsimile +44 (0)1795 535469 Email editorial@msjournal.org.uk


Editorial deadline for the Winter 2012 issue is 7th November. Publication date is 11th December


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Media Committee David Blanchfl ower, Julian Cutler, Mel Armstrong


Editor


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The Institute of Management Services is the primary body in the UK concerned with the promotion, practice and development of the range of methodologies and techniques for the improvement of productivity and quality, known collectively as ‘Management Services’. This embraces the disciplines of industrial engineering, work study, organisation and methods, systems analysis, and a wide range of management information and control techniques as illustrated in our Body of Knowledge.


The Institute acts as the qualifying body for the Management Services profession in the UK, focusing developments in practice and knowledge and acting as a forum for information exchange. This in turn enables our members who work under a variety of job titles across the whole of the UK economy, to make a more effective contribution to the well-being of their own organisation and to the nation’s economy as a whole.


In addition to creating and upholding professional standards for the practice of management services through the adoption of a code of ethics and the provision of a system of qualifying examinations, the Institute of Management Services collaborates with national and international professional bodies in similar fi elds.


The Institute is a member of, or represented on, a number of other bodies including the World Confederation of Productivity Science, the European Federation of Productivity Services, and the European Institute of Industrial Engineers.


The Deeson Group employ a positive paper recycling policy, soft proofi ng system and, where possible, uses paper manufactured from woodpulp sourced from sustainable forests and Elemental Chlorine Free pulp bleached papers.


© Copyright The Institute of Management Services 2012 Unless otherwise indicated, views expressed are those of the editorial staff, contributors and correspondents. They are not necessarily the views of the Institute of Management Services, its offi cers, or Council of Management. The publication of an advertisement or editorial does not imply that a product or service is recommended or endorsed by the Institute. Material may only be reproduced in any form by prior arrangement and with due acknowledgement to Management Services.


Institute of Management Services Brooke House 24 Dam Street Lichfi eld Staffs WS13 6AA Telephone: +44 (0)1543 266909 Fax: +44 (0)1543 257848 Email: admin@ims-stowe.fsnet.co.uk IMS website: www.ims-productivity.com


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Write for your journal


If you want to try your hand at writing a feature for Management Services, please submit an abstract (around 200 words) explaining what your feature is about, with intended word count. (Features should be between 1000 and 2500 words, although exceptions can be made.)


Send your abstract to Mel Armstrong, Editor, Management Services, 27 Castle Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2PX or email editorial@msjournal.org.uk.


We also want your news and points of view about what appears in this journal. Something you disagree with? Tell us about it.


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