Every Manager's Guide to Information Technology: A Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts for Today's Business Leader |
 | Author: Peter G.W. Keen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 200
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0875843093
EAN: 9780875843094
ASIN: 0875843093
Publication Date: November 1991
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Product Description
Today's managers must be just as comfortable with the basics of information technology (IT) as they are with accounting techniques and marketing principles. This guide demystifies the IT revolution, defining in accessible language the terms and concepts that are directly relevant to managers and explaining the impact of IT on all aspects of business.
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Glossary is not Cross Referenced as Advertised February 7, 1997
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Mr. Keen's idea for the format of this book is good and the front cover tauts 40 additional new terms that were not included in the First Edition.
The idea behind this book is that if you look up one term in the glossary (95% of this book is a glossary) at the end of the entry for the term you looked up there is a list of additional terms to cross reference for a more in-depth understanding of the concepts presented.
For example: You can look up EDI or Electronic Data Interchange. It will cross reference you to an entry for "PLATFORM". You can look up the term "Architecture" and it will also cross reference and guide you to read the entry for "PLATFORM". You can look up the term "Network" and it will also instruct you to cross reference the listing for the term, "PLATFORM".
HOWEVER, WHEN YOU GO TO LOOK UP "PLATFORM", IT IS NOT LISTED ANYWHERE IN THE BOOK! IT IS ALSO NOT INCLUDED IN THE INDEX. The copy editors get paid big bucks to check out this kind of thing and they totally blew it!..Especially, Harvard Business School Press as the publisher should know better. You can expect this kind of thing to happen with the first edition must it should not happen in the 2nd edition.
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