The business of managers is to create, store, transmit, and trade ideas, information, beliefs, and concepts. The traditional firm is a bureaucracy regulated by fixed, rigid rules. Today, bureaucracies are becoming extinct, and chaos and ambiguity reigns. Creative managers are organized into flexible workgroups, that is, temporarily organized systems of people, who know each other well, and have a track record of acting together. Central issues are not dealt by individual problem solvers, but by workgroups clarifying and resolving messy situations.
Managers become self-reliant and decide on their own how to do their jobs.
The traditional, chauffeur-driven, massive transaction systems, database management systems, management information systems are no longer adequate to support the new management culture. Modern managers need computer support to browse, store, transmit, and manage all the data, programs, software, information, ideas, used in their work. Last January, Business Week reported that about one million managers, at 45,000 companies, use the package. So, let us summarize the features of it. The Notes server provides services to Notes workstation users and other Notes servers.