Understanding IT: a manager's guide

by Aron, Dave

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Title Statements

Full title :Understanding IT : a manager's guide / Dave Aron and Jeffrey L. Sampler.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Financial Times Prentice Hall
Place of Publication:Harlow, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 186 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781405871129, 1405871121
oclc:ocn263596146
LC Classification:HD30.2
Dewey Decimal:004/.068

Cover -- Understanding IT -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface Why general managers should understand more about IT -- The challenge to markets and investors -- The challenge to general managers -- The solution -- education -- Purpose of the book -- How to use the book -- Introduction: The importance of information technology -- Concepts covered in this chapter -- Questions to ponder before reading -- A definition -- Need for managers to understand -- The opportunity of IT -- The challenge of IT -- Management perspectives -- What a computer is -- Concepts covered in this chapter -- Questions to ponder before reading -- A soft machine -- Ubiquity -- Scope of computers -- A digital, electromagnetic medium (for now) -- Components -- Program execution -- Layers -- Management perspectives -- How software works -- Concepts covered in this chapter -- Questions to ponder before reading -- What is software? -- The goals of an IT system -- Machine code is tough -- High-level languages -- A comparison of current computer languages -- Management perspectives -- The role of networks and the Internet -- Concepts covered in this chapter -- Questions to ponder before reading -- …

Subjects

Business enterprises -- Communication s… Commerce électronique -- Gestion Computer networks -- Management Electronic commerce -- Management Entreprises -- Systèmes de communication Information technology -- Management Management information systems Réseaux d'ordinateurs -- Gestion Systèmes d'information de gestion Technologie de l'information -- Gestion