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Making sense of data and information
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 a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; London :
Elsevier,
2007.
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| Colección: | Management extra.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (114 p.). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1280661186 9781280661181 9786613638113 6613638110 0080914845 9780080914848 |