John Hancock's experience with productivity techniques

摘要

---A Profile of John Hancock

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During the past year, John Hancock has been experimenting with Productivity Techniques. The purpose of this paper is to report our results. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the country's largest mutual life insurance companies, has its home office in Boston, Mass. The data processing function is provided, on a centralized basis, by a department within the company composed of six hundred personnel. EDP areas include machine operations, data entry and keypunch, systems and programming, education, and software support. The equipment installed currently includes three IBM 370/168's; the software environment includes OS/VS with MVS in the planning stage, TSO and IMS. Most of the programming is done in COBOL.