Management Information Systems: The Organization of Networked Businesses (Sixth Edition)

Author: Laudon
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features:
"Management Information Systems: Organization and Technology in the Networked Enterprise, Sixth Edition" Features:
An enhanced website for management problem-solving and interactive learning, located at www.prenhall.com/laudon.
An online Interactive Study Guide to help students review and test their mastery of chapter material through multiple-choice, true-false, and essay questions.
Electronic Commerce tours of real companies, projects, and a RealCase to help students explore the various Internet business models and e-commerce capabilities discussed in the text.
International links to websites all over the world, in addition to extra exercises for users interested in more international material.
NEW-Tools for Interactive Learning section concludes each chapter, showing students how they can extend their knowledge of chapter material with projects and exercises on the Laudon Website and the OPTIONAL CD-ROM multimedia edition.
NEW-Devotes an entire chapter (ch. 18) to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), the implementation of an enterprise-wide information systems infrastructure and computer-based industrial networks.
Focuses on Electronic Commerce, Electronic Business, and the Internet by introducing these concepts in the first chapter and then integrating them throughout the text and the entire learning package.
Features a full chapter (ch. 10) on the underlying technology, capabilities, and benefits of the Internet, with expanded treatment of e-commerce.
Interactive business models and the use of intranets for the internal management of the firm.
Explores all of today's leading-edge topics, including e-commerce, e-business, intranets, and extranets.
Internet business models, firewalls and Internet security, Internet-based group collaboration, supply chain management, network computers, enterprise resource planning, Web-based DSS, middleware, XML, Java, and open-source software.
Business processes and data warehouses.
Supports the authors' management, organization, and technology framework through chapter-opening diagrams, in-chapter boxes, and the Management Wrap-Up feature.
Features new and updated real-world examples through chapter-opening vignettes, three types of Window On... boxes, including Window on Organizations, Window on Management, and Window on Technology, and end-of-chapter and end-of-part case studies.
Offers an OPTIONAL CD-ROM with figures, graphs, photos, audio, video, interactive exercises, and bullet-text summaries.
Provides the strongest international coverage in the market!
Offers a complete global perspective with text discussions, examples, and international cases by world-renowned authorities in MIS.
Presents an earlier introduction to ethics, integrating its coverage throughout to increase awareness of the social impact of information systems.
The main content of this book includes five aspects:
(1) The organizational foundations of information systems, primarily explaining the organizational foundations and strategic role of systems;
(2) The technical foundations of information systems, providing technology in hardware, software, storage, and other aspects;
(3) Modern methods of building information systems, with the focus on the process of redesigning organizations using information systems;
(4) Management and organizational support systems, primarily describing the role of information systems in knowledge acquisition, organizational distribution, and enhancing management decisions;
(5) The management of modern information systems, including security, control, and the development of global systems.
In addition to continuing the strengths of the previous five editions, this book has also added many new features. Among them, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), the Internet, e-commerce, and e-business are, with examples from over 100 companies in the U.S. and 100 organizations in Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa, providing practical explanations of management, organization, and technology applications in businesses. Each chapter includes diagrams to illustrate the different solutions for management, organization, and technology applications in various companies, enabling students to learn theoretical knowledge based on real-world problems and achieve a combination of theory and practice.
This book is suitable for senior undergraduate students and MBA courses.
Content:
1. The Information Systems Revolution: Business and Management Transformation
2. The Strategic Role of Information Systems
3. Information Systems, Organizations, and Business Processes
4. Information, Management, and Decision Making in Organizations
5. The Ethical and Social Impact of Information Systems
6. Computers and Information Processing
7. Information Systems Software
8. Managing Data Resources
9. Telecommunications and Networks
10. The Internet: E-Commerce and E-Business
11. Redesigning Organizations with Information Systems
12. Methods of System Development
13. The Success and Failure of Systems: Implementation
14. Managing Knowledge
15. Enhancing Management Decisions
16. Information Systems Security and Control
17. Managing Global Information Systems
18. Management Foundations and Enterprise Systems.