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Making sense of data and information

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Making sense of data and information

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making sense of data and information[Elearn Limited, Pergamon Flexible Learning].
remainder title:	Management extra : making sense of data and information
Published:	Amsterdam :Elsevier,2007.
Description:	xiii, 99 p. :ill.
Notes:	"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.
Subject:	Business education.
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780080465210

Making sense of data and information
Making sense of data and information[electronic resource] /Management extra : making sense of data and information[Elearn Limited, Pergamon Flexible Learning]. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam :Elsevier,2007. - xiii, 99 p. :ill. - Management Extra..

"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.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Electronic reproduction.
Amsterdam :
Elsevier Science & Technology,
2009.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780080465210

Source: 135554:135689Elsevier Science & Technologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Business education.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HF1106 / .M36 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 658.3124

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