The Role of Management Management's role is to make decisions. Collect data Process and analyse the data Decide Communicate the decision Computers can assist with all of these functions. The most important resource which managers have to manage is their own time.
Computers can assist with time management.
Collecting Data Most of the world's data is stored in computers. Within the organisation, data is stored in the accounting system and in other systems. Externally, data is available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, industry associations, and from a myriad of locations on the Web. SQL is a language used for extracting subsets of the data from a database. To search you need to type in some key words.