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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; London :
Elsevier
2007.
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| Series: | Management extra.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628316006719 |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (114 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781280661181 9786613638113 9781136386671 9780080914848 |
