Michael Pagan

Manage Your IT For Profit: Teach Yourself (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Manage Your IT for Profit will help 'those who manage what they do not understand'! Written with humour and sound practicality, this guide is intended for the business owners and managers who need to understand the implications of technology in their business and to know how to utilise the information it provides to their maximum advantage and profit. It lessens the risk of your having the wool pulled over your eyes and reduces the fear of technology. Just as you need to understand balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and other financial metrics, you need to understand the language of IT. This book, organised so that each chapter can be easily completed in a day, is the perfect solution for the busy owner/manager.

NOT GOT MUCH TIME?

One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

AUTHOR INSIGHTS

Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

TEST YOURSELF

Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.

EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of how to manage your IT.

FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER

Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

TRY THIS

Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444129564
• Artikelnr.: 39221305

Autorenporträt

Michael Pagan has many years' experience as an IT director/consultant and as a small business owner.

Inhaltsangabe

* : 1. Hardware - Outlines the main types of computing device and
peripherals
* 2. Software: - Outlines software categories and the most popular
products in each
* : 3.Joining it all up - Networks, the benefits and features of
connecting computers together
* : 4.Communications - the world of phones, and wireless standards
* : 5.The Internet and E-Commerce - history, description, purpose and
benefits of the World Wide Web
* : 6. Setting a Direction for Information - identifies how and why
information can be used in an organisation, focusing on the human
elements.
* : 7.Assessing Information Resources - how to analyse an
organisation's ability to use information by examining the culture,
management and technology of information
* : 8.Information Vision and Architecture - how to develop a broad view
of where an organisation is going with information
* : 9.Information Strategy - how a company can achieve its information
goals one step at a time
* : 10.The medium term plan - how to create a practical, workable
roadmap to move your company ahead in its use of information
* : 11.The short term plan - how to create the immediate environment to
succeed in your use of information
* 12. People: - recruiting a high performing IT team
* : 13. Business Continuity - protecting business critical systems
* : 14. Action! - example of strategy.
* : 15. Best practice - 20 ways to save money on your IT. 20 ways to
add value through IT
* : 16.Glossary
* : 17. Bibliography
* : 18. Index