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Essentials of Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm and Student Multimedia Edition Package, 6/E
Kenneth C. Laudon, New York University
Jane P. Laudon, Azimuth Information Systems

ISBN-10: 0131330055
ISBN-13: 9780131330054

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 672 pp
Published: 08/04/2004
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For sophomore/MBA-level MIS and Information Systems courses taught in MIS, IS, CIS, Business and Management departments. Ideal for courses on the quarter system and those that combine an MIS text with hands-on software, projects, or case studies.

This exceptionally practical text prepares students for the constantly changing demands of using information systems as managers in today’s fast-paced organizations. Drawing extensively on examples from real businesses, the authors focus on the increasingly crucial links between information systems and business value. They present an integrated framework that demonstrates exactly how management, organization, and technology elements interrelate. Next, they use this framework to describe and analyze a wide variety of IS problems and case studies, and to guide students through the books many projects. This Sixth Edition contains extensive new coverage reflecting the latest emerging technical and organizational trends. For example, it contains an entirely new chapter on supply chain management, CRM, enterprise systems, and the latest system platforms for delivering enterprise-wide services. It also includes a new chapter on the use of knowledge management systems for capturing, distributing, and applying organizational knowledge to improve organizational performance and management decision-making. The authors introduce the latest metrics for measuring the business value of IT, and present business-focused coverage of these and other leading-edge technologies: Wi-Fi wireless networks and security; P2P, grid, and utility computing; the next-generation Internet and Semantic Web; Web services and enterprise application integration; business process management; and object oriented modeling. This edition also contains an all-new guide to helping students build structured digital portfolios that demonstrate their skills and knowledge to future employers. Also new in this edition: a “Hands-On Guide to MIS” providing how-to instructions for designing and normalizing relational databases, using entity-relationship diagrams, constructing SQL queries, modeling business processes, and solving business case studies. The book contains a running case study, as well as hands-on application software exercises, e-commerce and e-business projects, and four comprehensive projects that require students to solve demanding problems that arise as firms become more digitally integrated and Internet enabled.

NEW - Extensive coverage of enterprise applications and technologies–Used for achieving digital integration and enhancing organizational performance.
- Helps students thoroughly understand both the opportunities and challenges associated with todays most important enterprise applications, technologies, and platforms.

NEW - Stronger focus on assessing and demonstrating the business value of information systems.
- Helps students succeed in todays business environment, where compelling ROI justification and metrics must exist to justify significant technology initiatives.

NEW - Chapter on enterprise applications for digital integration–Including supply chain management, customer relationship management, enterprise systems, and new platforms for delivering enterprise-wide services.
- Helps students understand how todays most widely deployed enterprise applications work, how they seek to provide business value, and the challenges business face in deploying and using them.

NEW - Chapter on using Knowledge Management systems–To capture, distribute, and apply organizational knowledge, improve performance, and enhance decision-making.
- Gives students insight into the crucial performance management and decision support issues that are driving significant new technology investments.

NEW - Updated chapter on telecommunications, networking, and wireless computing–Including a detailed description of Wi-Fi wireless networking technology, with case studies.
- Gives students practical insight into the business value and deployment issues associated with wireless data technologies.

NEW - “Hands-On Guide to MIS”–Provides helpful how-to instructions for designing and normalizing databases, constructing queries, modeling business processes, solving business case studies, and more.
- Gives students hands-on practice with several of the technology-related tasks they will need to perform regularly as managers.

NEW - Coverage of building a structured digital portfolio–In which students can demonstrate their knowledge and skills to future employers.
- Helps students present themselves more effectively to employers, making them more competitive in a challenging marketplace.

NEW - Coverage of a wide range of leading-edge technologies–Including Web services; P2P, grid, and utility computing; the Next-Generation Internet and Semantic Web, and much more.
- Prepares students for the technologies they will encounter in the workplace for many years to come.

Integrated framework for understanding MIS–Introduces an integrated framework for describing and analyzing information systems in any environment, and uses that framework in a wide variety of case studies and student projects.
- Gives students the organizing principles they need to understand any business information systems challenge, case study, or project.

Over 100 examples and case studies for U.S. and global markets–Presents many real-world examples and case studies from over 100 enterprises serving markets throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
- Helps students understand how business information technology is actually applied in real-world enterprises.

Book-length running case study–Includes a running case study at the end of each chapter throughout the book to support real-world problem solving.
- Gives students a deep understanding of how IT and business managers currently plan, select, and deploy advanced information technologies.

Application software exercises–Presents hands-on business exercises that students can solve using spreadsheet, database, presentation, and/or Web page development application software.
- Gives students hands-on practice using the most widespread business software applications to solve real business problems.

Hands-on e-commerce/e-business projects–Includes e-commerce and e-business projects designed to address realistic business problems and promote critical thinking skills.
- Gives students practical insight into the current realities of e-commerce and e-business.

Four comprehensive student projects–Includes four comprehensive student projects: analyzing business processes for an enterprise system, creating a new Internet business, designing an enterprise information portal, and redesigning business processes.
- Shows students how managers approach some of todays most widespread technology issues and challenges.

Linkages between MIS and key business functions–Demonstrates how the information systems topics in each chapter specifically relate to major functional areas of business, including finance and accounting, human resources, manufacturing and production, and sales and marketing.
- Helps students clearly understand how information technology relates to the business careers they are interested in pursuing.

Interactive multimedia CD-ROM–Contains full text and bullet text summaries, simulations, audio/video explanations of key concepts, online quizzes, hyperlinks to exercises on the companion Web site, the complete Running Case with required files, technology updates, and more.
- Gives students all the electronic resources they need to master the topics covered in the book.

Outstanding companion Web site–Web site contains Interactive Study Guide with automatic grading, exercises and projects linked to the books text, additional case studies, international resources, and more.
- Gives students access to a large and growing collection of online resources for both study and real-world application.

Extensive coverage of enterprise applications and technologies–Used for achieving digital integration and enhancing organizational performance.
- Helps students thoroughly understand both the opportunities and challenges associated with todays most important enterprise applications, technologies, and platforms.

Stronger focus on assessing and demonstrating the business value of information systems.
- Helps students succeed in todays business environment, where compelling ROI justification and metrics must exist to justify significant technology initiatives.

Chapter on enterprise applications for digital integration–Including supply chain management, customer relationship management, enterprise systems, and new platforms for delivering enterprise-wide services.
- Helps students understand how todays most widely deployed enterprise applications work, how they seek to provide business value, and the challenges business face in deploying and using them.

Chapter on using Knowledge Management systems–To capture, distribute, and apply organizational knowledge, improve performance, and enhance decision-making.
- Gives students insight into the crucial performance management and decision support issues that are driving significant new technology investments.

Updated chapter on telecommunications, networking, and wireless computing–Including a detailed description of Wi-Fi wireless networking technology, with case studies.
- Gives students practical insight into the business value and deployment issues associated with wireless data technologies.

“Hands-On Guide to MIS”–Provides helpful how-to instructions for designing and normalizing databases, constructing queries, modeling business processes, solving business case studies, and more.
- Gives students hands-on practice with several of the technology-related tasks they will need to perform regularly as managers.

Coverage of building a structured digital portfolio–In which students can demonstrate their knowledge and skills to future employers.
- Helps students present themselves more effectively to employers, making them more competitive in a challenging marketplace.

Coverage of a wide range of leading-edge technologies–Including Web services; P2P, grid, and utility computing; the Next-Generation Internet and Semantic Web, and much more.
- Prepares students for the technologies they will encounter in the workplace for many years to come.

I. Organizations, Management and the Networked Enterprise.

1. Managing the Digital Firm.

2. Information Systems in the Enterprise.

3. Information Systems, Organizations, Management, and Strategy.

4. The Digital Firm: Electronic Business and Electronic Commerce.

5. Ethical and Social Issues in the Digital Firm.

Project. Analyzing Business Processes for an Enterprise System.

II. Information Technology Infrastructure.

6 Hardware and Software in the Enterprise.

7. Managing Data Resources.

8. Telecommunications, Networks and Wireless Computing.

9. The Internet: Information Technology Infrastructure for the Digital Firm.

Project. Creating a New Internet Business.

III. Organizational and Management Support Systems for the Digital Firm.

10. Enterprise Applications and Business Process Integration.

11. Managing Knowledge in the Digital Firm.

12. Enhancing Management Decisionmaking for the Digital Firm.

Project: Designing an Enterprise Information Portal.

IV. Building Information Systems in the Digital Firm.

13. Redesigning the Organization with Information Systems.

14. Understanding the Business Value of Systems and Managing Change.

15. Information System Security and Control.

Project: Redesigning Business Processes for Healthlite Yogurt Company.

International Case Studies.

Appendix 1. Hands-on Guide.

References.

Glossary.

Indexes.

Photo Credits/Screen Shots.

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