Making sense of data and information.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elearn.

Series:

Management extra.

Management extra

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management information systems.

Business education--Computer-assisted instruction.

Business education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (114 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front Cover; Making Sense of Data and Information; Copyright Page; Contents; List of activities; List of figures; List of tables; Series preface; Introduction: Making sense of data and information; Chapter 1: Becoming a critical thinker; Why we need information; Using data, information and knowledge; Finding the information you need; Recap; More @; Chapter 2: Finding and showing the message in numbers; Interpreting raw data; Presenting your case; Recap; More @; Chapter 3: Using computer tools; Recap; More @; Chapter 4: Analytical statistics; Statistical tools; Probability and sampling

Operations research techniquesRecap; More @; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-66118-6

9786613638113

1-136-38667-X

0-08-091484-5

9780080914848

OCLC:

659793408