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Introduction to Information Systems
Eighth Edition
ISBN: 0-256-20937-5
James A. O'Brien
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This text is written as an introduction to information systems
for business students. As tomorrow's managers, entrepreneurs,
or business specialists, business students need to know how to
use and manage information technology in today's networked enterprises
and global markets. In this dynamic environment, they will rely
on interconnected networks of information systems for end user
collaboration, including communications and computing among end
user work groups and teams, and enterprisewide computing, including
communications and information processing for business operations,
managerial decision making, and strategic advantage.
This text is designed for use in undergraduate courses in Management
Information systems, which are required in many Business Administration
or Management programs as part of the common body of knowledge
required of all business majors.
- Foundation Concepts. Basic information systems
concepts about the components and the operations, managerial,
and strategic roles of information systems (Chapter 1). Other
behavioral, managerial, and technical concepts are presented where
appropriate in other chapters.
- Technology. Major concepts, developments,
and managerial implications involved in computer hardware, software,
database management, and telecommunications technologies (Chapters
2, 3, 4, and 5). Other technologies used in computer-based information
systems are discussed where appropriate in selected chapters.
- Applications. How information technology
is used in modern information systems to support end user collaboration,
enterprise operations, managerial decision making, and strategic
advantage (Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9).
- Development. Developing information system
solutions to business problems using a variety of approaches to
application development and implementing change with IT (Chapter
10).
- Management. The challenges and methods of
managing information systems technologies, activities, and resources,
including information resource management, global IT management,
and security and ethical challenges (discussed in many chapters,
but emphasized in Chapters 11 and 12).
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Real World Cases, Problems, and Exercises
- Actual situations faced by business firms and other organizations.
- Two real world case studies in each chapter that apply specifically
to that chapter's content.
- Four real world problems provided at the end of every chapter.
- A continuing case at the end of each module.
- Several application Exercises in each chapter.
- Two hands-on spreadsheet or database software assignments
in Chapters 2 through 11.
- Several Internet assignments in Chapter 4.
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Strategic, International, and Ethical Dimensions
Examples of many real world cases and problems that demonstrate
the strategic and ethical challenges of managing information technology
for competitive advantage in global business markets and in the
global information society in which we all live and work.
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Support Materials
- A revised software casebook, Application Cases in
MIS: Using Spreadsheet and Database Software, second edition,
by James N. Morgan of Northern Arizona University is available
to supplement the hands-on exercises.
- Instructor's Resource Manual. Contains instructional
aids and suggestions, detailed annotated chapter outlines with
instructional suggestions for use in lecture, answers to chapter
questions, and problems and case study questions. A data/solutions
disk is included for use with the spreadsheet and database exercises
in the text as well as the IRM on disk.
- Presentation graphics disk. PowerPoint color slide
shows for each chapter to support classroom discussion.
- Test Bank. Over 3,000 true-false, multiple choice,
and fill-in-the-blank questions. Available as a separate test
manual and in computerized form on floppy disk for use with the
Irwin Test Generator Program.
- Irwin IS Video Library. 12 videos, approximately
10-12 minutes long, on various IS concepts.
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Modular Structure of the Text
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