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Information Systems for Managers: Texts and Cases, 1st Edition

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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.

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Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations
1. Introduction
2. IS as a socio-technical system
3. The impact of IT on business
Part II: The changing competitive environment
4. Modern IT change the competitive landscape
5. Electronic Commerce: New ways of doing business
Part III: The strategic use of IT
6. Planning for the use of IS resources
7. Value creation and IT
8. Creating value with IT in the modern landscape
9. Appropriating value over the long term
Part IV: Getting IT done
10. Justifying the IT investment
11. Development and Implementation
Part IV: Trends
12. Modern System and Trends
13. Security and Ethics

New To This Edition

New material that focuses on the strategic potential and applications of information systems - coverage that is unique to a graduate text
Full-length cases designed to discuss and internalize the framework and concepts discussed in each chapter
Applied and practical approach of the text is welcomed by students and helps reduce one of the key complaints about the intro to IS course: dry material
Mini-cases begin each chapter to provide a simple vehicle for instructors to jump-start discussion
Teaching notes accompany each mini-case to offer further ideas on creating a buzz about the topics covered in the text

Hallmark Features

New material that focuses on the strategic potential and applications of information systems - coverage that is unique to a graduate text
Full-length cases designed to discuss and internalize the framework and concepts discussed in each chapter
Applied and practical approach of the text is welcomed by students and helps reduce one of the key complaints about the intro to IS course: dry material
Mini-cases begin each chapter to provide a simple vehicle for instructors to jump-start discussion
Teaching notes accompany each mini-case to offer further ideas on creating a buzz about the topics covered in the text