ASLIB PROCEEDINGS: incorporating Aslib Information

The November evening meeting will be held on Thursday 26th November, on ‘The dissemination of published information to the executives of a major steel group’. The speaker will be Mr Richard Hindson, ALA Information Officer, Colvilles Limited. The Chair will be taken by Mr Julian Blackwell of Blackwell's, Oxford. Mr Hindson will illustrate from his experience in the iron and steel industry how free interchange of information can be achieved within an industry. An increasing number of companies are raising the calibre of their executives by management development and training schemes, but as far as the speaker is aware no group other than Colvilles is evolving a scheme which ensures that, once managers and specialists are appointed to particular posts, they are kept informed of developments relative to these posts. Mr Hindson will describe the information service that has been set up on these lines by the Colville Group of Companies.