Information Systems for Managers: Texts and Cases, 1st Edition
by Gabriele Piccoli (Cornell University)
Edition: 1
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-11-01
Publisher(s): WILEY
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Summary
Information Systems for Managers is a text for managerial/MBA students intended to actively engage them in discussions and activities around information systems and information technology. Piccoli has interwoven many real-world examples into the text that show students how IS will effect their futures in management positions. Each chapter starts off with a mini-case to get the student's attention, build excitement, and foster interactive discussions. A plethora of unique, full-length cases are also composed within the text to hold student's attention and show them how IS and IT are of great interest to them as managers.
Table of Contents
| Foundations | |
| Introduction | |
| IS as a socio-technical system | |
| The impact of IT on business | |
| The changing competitive environment | |
| Modern IT change the competitive landscape | |
| Electronic Commerce: New ways of doing business | |
| The strategic use of IT | |
| Planning for the use of IS resources | |
| Value creation and IT | |
| Creating value with IT in the modern landscape | |
| Appropriating value over the long term | |
| Getting IT done | |
| Justifying the IT investment | |
| Development and Implementation | |
| Trends | |
| Modern System and Trends | |
| Security and Ethics | |
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