Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Information Management

Electronic mail, personal organizers, voice mail, all were introduced as time-saving devices designed to promote an easier and more efficient workplace. Yet many professionals find that making effective use of these new forms of communication technology can become a time-consuming task. In this handbook written for the office of the 21st century, Barbara Etzel and Peter J. Thomas provide guidance for those struggling to manage the growing volume of mail, memos, e-mail messages, and electronic documents that arrives daily.

Personal Information Management details the skills...

Successful companies rely on traditional factors of production for their survival. Yet the most important and sustainable sources of competitive advantage knowledge, customer relations, supply-on-demand, micromanagement, and other forms of "intellectual capital" often don't even appear on many companies' reporting systems. The results of this lack of attention to intellectual capital can be disastrous for companies and their stockholders.

Providing an organizational system that helps managers maximize the flow of intellectual capital in their companies, Intellectual...

This volume outlines a quick and easy approach with concepts, techniques, and templates for analyzing, organizing, communicating, and implementing an IS strategy. This approach unites an...

How do we define the nature of our business, gather everything that we know about it, and then centralize our information in one, easily accessed place within the organization? Breslin and McGann call such knowledge our ways of working and the place where it will be found a business knowledge repository. All of a company's accumulated operations data, its manuals and procedures, its records of compliance with myriad regulations, its audits, disaster recovery plans are essential information that today's management needs at its fingertips, and information that tomorrow's management must be...