Essentials of Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm

by Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon

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.

Genres: Technology, Textbooks, Business

672 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1994

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read 2000

[Shelby Lund · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was one of my textbooks for a semester of college, it was good. Very informative, helped me prepare for tests.

[Jamie Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Required for college

[libby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Made me cry but I got an A in the class

[Jonathan Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Thinhle]

g00d

[Nabin]

Good