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The Essential Manager : How to Thrive in the Global Information Jungle.
This book discusses the evolution of management as a profession over the past two decades and how it continues to evolve. It goes on to describe the new style of management and makes recommendations for what today's and tomorrow's managers must know and how to work. Offers ways to think ab...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Emergence of a New Managerial Style; How This Book and Chapters Are Organized and Why; A Dose of Historical Perspective; Thinking in Terms of Systems and Processes; Simulations, Modeling, and the Attraction of Numeric Data; Migratory Habits of the Modern Manager; How the New Style Is Applied at Work; Implications for Management; Notes; Chapter 2 When Management Confronts Information Ecosystems; How Information Technology Changes Came About; How Managers Use Computing to Change Their Work; So What?; Changing Opportunities and Threats.
- Role of Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Corporate CultureWhy Industries Are Still So Important to Firms and Managers; What Economists and Other Academics Are Discovering; Information Technologies to Pay Attention to Right Now; Cloud Computing; Wearable Computing; Autonomous Vehicles; Biotech-Informatics-Information Technology; Quantum Computing; Personal Robotics; Management's Takeaways; Implications for Management; Notes; Chapter 3 How Technologies Affect the Work of Industries; What Is an Industry?; Behavior in an Industry-Centric World; Risks of Working Within an Industry.
- How IT Affects Industries and Shapes Their StrategiesImplications for Managers; Notes; Chapter 4 New Organizations: What Changes, What Does Not; Changing Structure and Form of Organizations; Transforming Large Enterprises; Special Role of Human Relations in the Transformation of Corporations; Special Role of Financial and Accounting Functions; Portrait of the New Manager; Migrations of Profit and Value; What Does Not Seem to Be Changing; Challenges Ahead; Implications for the Future of Management; Notes; Chapter 5 Emerging Economic and Business Realities.
- "Nuts and Bolts" of the Globalized Connected EconomyHow Governments Use IT for National Economic Development; A View into the Economic Future; Implications for Management; Notes; Chapter 6 The Way Forward; A Brief Summary of This Book's Key Advice; A Global Society and Its Implications for Management; Information, Information Technologies, and the Work of Management; Organizational Level: Strategy and Deployment; The New Militancy of Impatient Powerful Customers; Return on Information-A New Idea for a New Time?; What Personal Skills and Knowledge Does a Manager Need?; Some Final Thoughts.
- NotesFor Further Reading; Index; EULA.