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Being a successful manager or entrepreneur in the media and digital sector requires creativity, innovation, and performance. It also requires an understanding of the principles and tools of management. Aimed at the college market, this book is a short, foundational volume on media management. It summarizes the major dimensions of a business school curriculum and applies them to the entire media, media-tech, and digital sector. Its chapters cover-in a jargonless, non-technical way-the major functions of management. First, creating a media product: the financing of projects, and the management of technology, HR, production operations, intellectual assets, and government relations. Second, harvesting the product created: market research, marketing, pricing, and distribution. And third, the control loop: media accounting and strategy planning.
In the process, this book becomes an indispensable resource for those aiming for a career in the media and digital field, both in startups and established organizations. This book is designed to help those aiming to join the media and digital sector to become creative managers and managerial creatives. It aims to make them more knowledgeable, less blinded by hype, more effective, and more responsible.
Table des matières
I Overview.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Information Environment.- II Production.- 3. Production Management in Media and Information.- 4. Technology Management in Media and Information Firms.- 5. Human Resource Management for Media and Information Firms.- 6. Financing Media, Information, and Communication.- 7. Intellectual Asset Management.- 8. Managing Law and Regulation.- III Marketing.- 9. Demand and Market Research for Media and Information Products.- 10. Marketing of Media and Information.- 11. Pricing of Media and Information.- 12. Distribution of Media and Information.- IV Feedback Loop.- 13. Accounting in Media and Information Firms.- 14. Strategy Planning in Media and Information Firms.- 15. Concluding Observations.
A propos de l'auteur
Eli M. Noam is Professor of Finance and Economics, the Garrett Chair of Public Policy & Business Responsibility, Columbia University Business School, and the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. He has served as Public Service Commissioner for New York State, and on the White House IT advisory board. His thirty-one books include: Who Owns the World’s Media; Broadband Networks, Smart Grids and Climate Change; Media Ownership and Concentration in America; Interconnecting the Network of Networks; Television in Europe;and Peer to Peer Video. He received his BA, MA, PhD (Economics) and JD degrees from Harvard University, and honorary doctorates from Munich and Aix-Marseille universities.
