Management Information Systems Managing the Digital Firm 10th International Edition 2007

by laudon-laudon

644 Pages + Appendix. Glossy colored quality paper.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Management, Computers, Computer Science, Technology

736 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a fairly decent textbook for a topic I knew really not much about before taking my MIS class. The writing style was engaging. But I did find the review questions and the case study questions to be fairly elementary for a master's class. They actually reminded me a lot of sixth-grade level questions. But, the case studies were interesting and practical, and it was interesting to see definitions and examples for things we use or do every day but don't think about.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adding another textbook because this one I actually read through properly and while it was for my study and some would argue it doesn't count, I truly think it does in this case because I read all of it.
It was rather easy to read, in some places probably a bit wordy and dragged on, and made reference to a couple of things I felt were irrelevant now like old Mac operating systems and MS-DOS. I think it could have mentioned obsolete things such as these and perhaps not spent so much time on them.
Like I said a bit heavy but did what it intended to do, however at the end I still struggled to see 'the big picture' I think. A summary chapter would have been nice, and an acronyms glossary. The edition I have is the 11th so I'm hoping the 12th will see these suggestions.

[Anonymous Coyote]

i hated this

[Anna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dit is een slecht boek.

Een paar citaten:
Als je verstandige keuzes maakt, kan je bedrijf concurrenten voorbijstreven. Als je onverstandige keuzes maakt, zal je waardevol bedrijfskapitaal verkwisten.

Door op de gemarkeerde tekst of knoppen op een webpagina te klikken, kun je de link naar gerelateerde pagina’s volgen waar aanvullende informatie, software of nog meer links naar andere pagina’s te vinden zijn. (deze editie is uit 2015)

De processen van een bedrijf kunnen een bron van concurrentiekracht zijn als ze het bedrijf in staat stellen beter te innoveren of te presteren dan zijn rivalen.

Dit gaat nog 12 hoofdstukken door.

Staat er iets interessants/relevants/boeiends in? Ja. Is dat te vinden? Alleen als je heel erg bestand bent tegen eindeloze herhaling en open deuren. Dat ben ik niet, ik word er boos van.

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you know nothing of information systems, this book can provide a decently solid foundation on which to build intellectual comprehension. I find that many textbooks suffer from ridiculous amount of clip art. Mostly generic images and the cliche 'one of every colour' business employees pretending to do some important board meeting. This book has cut back on such trivialities and only diagrams of actual merit.

[Johir Hussain]

introduction

[Saanu Satti · Rating 4 out of 5]

want to read it

[Prasad]

xyz

[Chinedu Callistus]

ok

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was the assigned text book for a graduate course. The concepts in the book cover a lot of the areas and information under modern IT. This title seems to be updated frequently, so if you get the latest version, it shouldn't feel dated.

The case studies in the book relate extremely well for the chapter topic. Most are interesting and usually are of a known company, or a known technology that a company adopts.

If you want to just get a nice picture of what types of technologies companies are looking at using, or are using, and how everything relates to each other, then this book should fill your brain with some good information.

[Alejandro Teruel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a classical introductory textbook on Information Systems now into its 17th edition (2022). This review is about the global edition.

Weighing in at fifteen chapters and over six hundred pages, it is a hefty tome which covers a lot of ground and thus can be compared to, say the Pressman or Sommerville books for Software Engineering. The fifteen chapters are divided into four parts of three to four chapters each:

I. Organizations, management, and the networked enterprise;

II. Information Technology Infrastructure;

III. Key System Applications for the Digital Age, which includes chapters on enterprise applications, e-commerce, knowledge management and the use of artificial intelligence for decision and decision support systems;

IV. Building and Managing Systems.

To understand information systems you have to understand who and what they are providing information for and how they provide it, as well as the quality and timeliness of the information provided. Kenneth and Jane Laudon's textbook is particularly strong on impressively up to date and very illustrative brief one to three page business case studies and examples (called ïnteractive sessions in the text), written by the Laudons and, in the global edition, at least, a number of academic collaborators from around the world, on information system developments and challenges in the US, Singapore, Canada, Middle East, Europe (UK, France, Holland, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria), China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Malaysia, Fiji, Australia, Canada and South Africa as well as the top five technological companies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft) paying particular attention to global issues throughout the text but particularly in chapter one (Information Systems in Global Systems Today), chapter two (Global E-Business and Collaboration), and chapter fifteen (Managing Global Systems). However, the textbook feels disjointed and does not flow very well perhaps due to the effort of deciding what to keep from previous updates -it is probably time to do a major update on the structure of the textbook itself, although it does do a pretty good job of providing an overview of the broad competency realms identified in the 2020 ACM-AIS Information Systems Curriculum i.e. Foundations, data/information management (including big data and business analytics), technology (including security, enterprise systems, blockchain, IoT), development, and the organizational domain. For example, while there is a chapter on ethical and social issues (chapter 4) and some timid attempts have been made to mention some of the issues in the rest of the book, the attempts definitely fall short, especially on such issues as the impacts of environmental and algorithmic injustice, the UN's sustainable development goals and value sensitive or value oriented design, and at least some of these topics should be given a similar prominence to the one given to globalization. The Laudons also focus almost exclusively on business information systems, barely skimming over other domains of practice such healthcare, government, education and law, although to be honest they very correctly present and analyze particular issues derived from the COVID-19 pandemic in supply chains, health care and education.

Personally I feel more space should have been devoted to business process modeling and IT auditing, and, at least, a mention of ITIL or related service and asset management processes and ISACA standards such as the COBIT framework for IT management and governance, as well as improvements and corrections in the coverage of sociotechnical systems and information systems development methodologies. Also missing are business case studies from Latinamerica and at least one more case study from Africa (there is only one from South Africa). The open data movement is not mentioned and in fact there are excellent case studies of open justice initiatives in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico which could be referenced in order to add key material on open government, open justice in latinamerican case studies.

Each chapter follows a similar pattern. It starts off with a stimulating opening business case to motivate the key topic covered by the chapter, a carefully structured development, of the topic across several sections, emphasizing key points in tables and schemas as well as in the text, a small number of “interactive sessions” which are more in depth but short business cases, and a section titled How will MIS help my career? which provides a representative job offering emphasizing the topic in question, describing the job requirements, possible interview questions and some tips on preparing for such such a job interview. Each chapter ends with a review summary, key terms, review questions, a small number of discussion questions, a proposed hands-on project, a proposed team project which entails looking up and sifting through information int the Internet and preparing a presentation, an additional case study to wrap up the chapter, and bibliographic references for the chapter, most of which are references to journal papers and newspaper articles -it would be nice to clearly point out a handful of recommended further readings from this list to delve more deeply into key topics.

In spite of these caveats, the book is well written, timely and should certainly be taken into account for any foundational or introductory course on Information Systems.

[Billygoat · Rating 5 out of 5]

yes it is.

[he chow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Knowledge management is the best chapter.

[Dublin Von Cannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Motivated me to study further although vision issues stopped the career dead in the tracks.

[Kimi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Baca buku ini karena buku kuliah. Aku anaknya memang rajin membaca.

[Debb · Rating 5 out of 5]

For a textbook, I learned a lot. The information and the case studies were relevant to my career and very engaging.

[Jess Koch · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a textbook. A decent one, but still unfortunately a textbook.

[Ashley]

Read for an MBA IT in the Enterprise class.
MBA 6310

[Caro]

en realidad me faltaron un par de capítulos pero ya promocione la materia so who cares, nunca me dormí tantas veces leyendo un textbook

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

Για εισαγωγή στα πληροφοριακά συστήματα είναι άριστο. Ένας φοιτητής πληροφορικής ή οργάνωσης επιχειρήσεων θα γνωρίζει ήδη αρκετό υλικό από αυτό που παρέχεται, το οποίο μπορεί να θεωρηθεί το κύριο αρνητικό (αν το θεωρεί κάποιος αυτό αρνητικό) του παρόντος βιβλίου. Επίσης, πολύ υλικό καλύπτεται επιφανειακά. Ως προς τα θετικά - είναι γλαφυρό, οι συγγραφείς ξέρουν να μεταδίδουν τη πληροφορία, οι περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες είναι άριστες, και εν γένει η ποιότητα του συγγράμματος είναι απίστευτη. Το προτείνω ανεπιφύλακτα, έστω και με μερικές παραλείψεις σε σελίδες αν η πληροφορία θεωρείται δεδομένη.

[Joseph · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is my textbook for my upcoming summer class. This is also the reason I haven't finished Myths America Lives By yet.

Not a bad intro to the topic, but, as often happens with textbooks, I can't imagine reading it without it being required for class.

[Vivian Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sorry Goodreads things aren't going to be like they used to be. Its been great, but there's someone else in my life now. No, its not you, its me. We sure had some real good times together. Maybe I'll see you around...

[Agha]

gud

[Grumpylibrarian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Management Principles & Operations, only moderately useful

[Nivas · Rating 3 out of 5]

MIS textbook

[jungrani · Rating 3 out of 5]

buku jaman kuliah rek :D

[Athman Fadhili]

I use it for teaching. It's a good reference for MIS students.

[Rebekka Steg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent, gives a lot of examples and the cd-rom that comes with it is very helpful.

[David McClendon, Sr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book. Lots of information.

[Nic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Textbook for my MIS master's class...not bad, but not appropriate for the class.