Practical Management for the Digital Age is an innovative introductory management textbook that shows the sweeping impact of information technology on the business world. At the same time it addresses the pressing issue of how environmental aspects are interwoven with management decisions. This book forms an academically rigorous accurate and accessible first exposure to a topic that often challenges novices with competing definitions inconsistent use of terminology methodological variety and conceptual fuzziness. It has been written for readers with little or no prior knowledge of management and is compact enough to be read cover-to-cover over the course of a semester. Features of this book: Provides a broad self-contained treatment of management for those without prior knowledge of management or commerce emphasizing core ideas that every manager should know. Establishes the context of modern management by characterizing the nature of the private enterprise the economic theory of the firm the economics of digitalization and automation processes of innovation and life cycle thinking. Introduces readers to various activities of managing including business modeling new business formation operations management managing people marketing and the management of quality and risk. Provides practical introductions to broadly applied management techniques including financial planning financial analysis evaluating flows of money and planning and monitoring projects. This book is aimed at a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students in a variety of disciplines as well as practitioners. It will be especially useful to those in the fields of engineering science computer science medicine pharmacy social sciences and more. It will help student readers engage confidently with project work in the final parts of their degree courses and most importantly with managerial situations later in their careers. For instructors who may not have a management background this book offers content for a self-contained year-long course in management at the intermediate undergraduate level. In addition it has been developed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses with accreditation requirements that include a taught element in management such as the UK Engineering Council’s Accreditation of Higher Education (AHEP) framework. | Practical Management for the Digital Age An Introduction for Engineers Scientists and Other Disciplines
Practical Management for the Digital Age is an innovative introductory management textbook that shows the sweeping impact of information technology on the business world. At the same time it addresses the pressing issue of how environmental aspects are interwoven with management decisions. This book forms an academically rigorous accurate and accessible first exposure to a topic that often challenges novices with competing definitions inconsistent use of terminology methodological variety and conceptual fuzziness. It has been written for readers with little or no prior knowledge of management and is compact enough to be read cover-to-cover over the course of a semester. Features of this book: Provides a broad self-contained treatment of management for those without prior knowledge of management or commerce emphasizing core ideas that every manager should know. Establishes the context of modern management by characterizing the nature of the private enterprise the economic theory of the firm the economics of digitalization and automation processes of innovation and life cycle thinking. Introduces readers to various activities of managing including business modeling new business formation operations management managing people marketing and the management of quality and risk. Provides practical introductions to broadly applied management techniques including financial planning financial analysis evaluating flows of money and planning and monitoring projects. This book is aimed at a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students in a variety of disciplines as well as practitioners. It will be especially useful to those in the fields of engineering science computer science medicine pharmacy social sciences and more. It will help student readers engage confidently with project work in the final parts of their degree courses and most importantly with managerial situations later in their careers. For instructors who may not have a management background this book offers content for a self-contained year-long course in management at the intermediate undergraduate level. In addition it has been developed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses with accreditation requirements that include a taught element in management such as the UK Engineering Council’s Accreditation of Higher Education (AHEP) framework. | Practical Management for the Digital Age An Introduction for Engineers Scientists and Other Disciplines
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