Management information systems for the information age / Stephen Haag, Maeve Cummings, James Dawkins.
Publication details: Boston : Irwin/McGraw-Hill, c2000.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xxi, 554 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:- 9780072315356
- 97800723153560072315350
- 658.4038 23 HAA
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CONTENT
CHAPTER 1 THE INFORMATION IN WHICH YOU LIVE
Changing the face of business
Would you paint your house with yogurt
The management information systems challenge
Characteristics of today's new business
Information technology its role in the new business
Etc.
CHAPTER 2 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS
Supporting information processing
Levi strauss is losing its pants to Vanity fair
An organization
Information in an organization
Transaction processing and customer integrated systems
Management information systems
Workgroup support systems
Etc.
CHAPTER 3 STRATEGIC AND COMPETITIVE OPPORTUNITIES USING IT TO GENERATE ORGANIZATIONAL HORSEPOWERS
Creating vision for a new way to do business
Introduction
Organizational horsepower, force and speed combined
Quality: your competitive foundation
The just in time approach no product before it s time
Teams in an organization partnership learning to share
Etc.
CHAPTER 4 DATABASES AND DATA WAREHOUSES
A goldmine of information
Using databases and data warehouse instead of shopping charts
Information in an organization revised
The relational database model
The object-oriented database model
Etc.
CHAPTER 5 DECISION SUPPORT AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Brainpower for your business
A decision support system to save lives
Decision, decisions decisions
Decision support systems
Group decision support systems it power for team meetings
Etc.
CHAPTER 6
NETWORKS
Technologies for electronic commerce
Using networks to eliminate paper in the pulp and paper industry
client/server: the emerging blueprint for networks
Network: enabling technologies and concepts
Electronic commerce: performing network enabled business
Etc.
CHAPTER 7 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Innovations for tomorrow
Hollywood goes high tech to create sensation on the screen
Emerging technologies for all the senses
The internet explosion: emerging all around you
The wireless revolution: virtual connectivity
Etc.
CHAPTER 8 PLANNING FOR IT SYSTEMS
Knowing where you are going
Chaos in California
Aligning organizational goals and information technology is not it too late
Identifying specific processes: building better processes with information technology
Identifying specific information: getting people what they need when when they need it
Etc.
CHAPTER 9 DEVELOPING IT SYSTEMS
Bringing it systems to life
Programming get one slice of pizza for every nine lines of code
Systems development is a question and answer session
Insourcing and the traditional systems development life cycle
Self sourcing and photocopying: empowering knowledge workers to develop their own systems
Etc.
CHAPTER 10 MANAGING IT SYSTEMS
Staying on track
To whom do doctors go for help
Managing information
Managing information technology
Managing knowledge workers
Etc.
CHAPTER 11 PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Its your world
The business of the future the cyber corporation
The business environment of tomorrow
The knowledge worker of tomorrow
Information technology of tomorrow
Some final thoughts as you prepared for the future
Includes bibliographical references: p 549-554
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