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6. When calculating the cost of OA, one cannot the expense of training

one’s personnel how to use it.

7. For most small companies, the main to the introduction of OA is cost.

8. M ost experts a step-by-step approach to office automation rather than

trying to purchase all one’s needs at the same time.

9. It is the members of the older generation who are most likely to the

introduction of OA in that many of them have a basic fear of technology.

10. M any word-processing programs nowadays offer self-correction facilities; i.e., they indicate

when a word has been misspelt, thereby ensuring that the spelling is always .

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What should my company do?
If your office is in the initial1 stages of office automation, the basic 1. ขั้นเริ่มต้น

strategy I recommend to you is very simple: try to use more electronics to
increase the convenience of operating your own business. You do not have
to think about difficult concepts like office productivity, nor be involved in
discussions on what office automation is all about. If an electronic device can
help you accomplish an important task more conveniently, then acquire it.
That is the strategy you used when your purchased your electronic calculator.
Now apply it to your office.

Using this strategy, your are likely to find a variety of electronic products
on the market which could improve your business efficiency. The choices you
make need not be complex: acquire a small copying machine so a certain group
of secretaries can make immediate copies without waiting; install a telephone
switchboard with automatic “call forward in” so people can still receive their
calls while visiting another office; buy an electronic typewriter so a secretary
can produce many short letters quickly.

There are a variety of electronic products on the market, some of which
you already know. Electronics is powerful. Once your office has tried electronic
typewriters, for example, no doubt you will acknowledge their convenience
compared with conventional typewriters. If you have not tried word processors
in your organization, you migth be losing out in an important area of business
efficiency. How about copying machines? Twenty years ago, nobody could