An in-depth look at how today's businesses use information technologies.Many businesses look for candidates who know how to use information systems, making a general understanding of information systems an asset to any business professional. Laudon and Laudon continue to emphasize how business objectives shape the application of new information systems and technologies.The tenth edition features new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases, as well as updated text, figures, tables, and cases.
While studying in an accredited introductory information systems course, Essentials of Management Information Systems by Laudon and Laudon challenged my understanding about information systems with a focus on business structured by economic theory. The relevant book by Laudon and Laudon instructing from a bottom-up approach similar to the economics book by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, Modern Principles of Economics, is probably a product related to Kenneth C. Laudon having a background in economics; this is useful for understanding specific cases and then applying the lessons learned to business proposals with information systems collectively constraining the solutions for normal science. When working with this text, my suggestion to the reader would involve seeking an integration of research about ethics related to information systems; the relevant book by Laudon and Laudon has a chapter on ethics for business, but detailed business ethics are increasingly relevant in all aspects of business.