Making sense of data and information [electronic resource] / [Elearn Limited, Pergamon Flexible Learning].
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- 其他題名：
- Management extra : making sense of data and information
- 出版： Amsterdam : Elsevier 2007.
- 叢書名： Management extra
- 主題： Business education , Critical thinking. , Executives--Training of. , Leadership. , Management , Electronic books
- 版本：1st ed.
- ISBN： 0080465218 、 9780080465210
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- 一般註："Whether you are a tutor/trainer or studying management development to further your career, Management Extra provides an exciting and flexible resource helping you to achieve your goals. The series is completely new and up-to-date, and has been written to harmonise with the 2004 national occupational standards in management and leadership. It has also been mapped to management qualifications, including the Institute of Leadership & Management's middle and senior management qualifications at Levels 5 and 7 respectively on the revised national framework"--p.xi. Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2009. Other title : Management extra : making sense of data and information
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references.
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- 系統號： 005163992 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
Managers need to be able to make sense of data and to use it selectively to answer key questions: Why has quality fallen in the last week? Should we subcontract or employ more people? What will consumer demand be in the future? They need to be able to assess the value of data and to detect what is and what isn't spin. The focus is on analysing numbers. On their own, figures tell us very little. To become meaningful they need to be processed and analysed and it is the patterns that emerge from this that provide the information that is needed for decision-making. The book is arranged in four themes. It starts by considering the value of information in organisations and by assessing how effectively the information is used in a management role. It then goes on to look at different options for presenting figures so that trends become clearer and patterns simpler to spot. As well as making data easier to interpret, the techniques the book presents are valuable communication tools that will help the reader use information more effectively with others. The last two themes then provide a toolkit of techniques that you can use to investigate situations and help solve problems. These include statistical and operational techniques as well as computer tools.