Smart Things to Know About Technology Management (Smart Things to Know About (Stay Smart!) Series) - Softcover

Holmes, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841124265 ISBN 13: 9781841124261

Publisher: Capstone, 2003

Synopsis

Smart Things to Know about Technology Management is a failsafe guide through the technology minefield. It shows how you can take charge of technology and move into the driver′s seat, rather than have technology run you. It is packed with advice on how to improve your management skills by recognizing and dealing with psychological issues that affect both you and your employees. Smart Things to Know about Technology Management shows you how to use technology in the workplace to its best, strategic advantage

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About the Author

Andrew Holmes is a Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Risk Management Solutions. He has consulted in a large number of UK, overseas and global companies. He specializes in operational strategy, programme and project management and IT. He is a regular speaker on issues associated with project management, risk management, IT and consultancy and has published a number of papers and books on these subjects. He is the author of two books in the ExpressExec series and Smart Things to Know About Lifelong Learning.

From the Back Cover

It is a fact of life that technology has become the lifeblood of society, particularly in the world of work. There is no doubt that anyone in business today will be managing technology of many sorts. Although transforming the way we live and work, technology can also dominate and control our lives. Smart Things To Know About Technology Management provides the tools to begin to manage and control technology. It will show you how to:

Þ Improve your management skills in a technological culture

Þ Use technology to provide competitive advantage

Þ Deal more effectively with technological change

Þ Recognize and deal with the psychological issues that technology can produce

Þ Survive in an increasingly competitive global economy

Þ Be ready for a future of ever progressing technology

Andrew Holmes describes what Smart technology management means in practice by providing a balanced perspective on how technology can be managed from strategy to delivery. It is packed with advice on how to improve your management sk ills and use technology to its best advantage. Smart Things To Know About Technology Management will enable you to make technology work for the organisation rather than the organisation working for technology.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Capstone
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841124265
• ISBN 13: 9781841124261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250