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Project and Report Writing
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Managers are in charge of large amounts of activity, people, money and other resources. In today’s ‘leaner’ and ‘flatter’ organizations these responsibilities continue to increase.
Managers need to monitor what’s going on, and to make decisions, and for this they need information. But there’s always too much going on for managers to keep detailed tabs on everything. Information is locked up in record systems, files, archives, documents – and people’s memories.
Modern organizations actually produce more information than ever before in history. Computers churn it out in colossal amounts. The trouble is that there’s so much information that it’s increasingly hard to make sense of it.
Sometimes it seems that the more information there is, the less use it is. Since managers must have the information, an answer must be found, and one answer is the report. Someone must wade through the piles of information, pick out the important bits, analyse their significance and package it up conveniently.
That’s what reports are about. The writer gathers the information, analyses it, selects what’s important, works out what it means, and explains it all simply and concisely. If the process of collecting and analysing the information is substantial, you or your organization might term this a ‘project’, the outcome of which is usually a special report (as it is with an ILM Certificate in First Line Management project). A good report puts the whole of a complex issue ‘in a nutshell’, and simplifies the task of the decision-makers enormously.
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Project and Report Writing
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