Principles of information systems : a managerial approach / Ralph M. Stair, and George W. Reynolds.

Table of Contents

PART 1 AN OVERVIEW
1 An Introduction to Information systems
A pharmacy for the future
System and modeling concepts
What is an Information system
Business information systems
Ethical and societal issues:
Etc.

2 Information systems in organisations
Seeking competitive advantage with major information systems
Organizations and information systems
Competitive advantage
Performance based information systems
Careers in Information systems

PART 2 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS
3 Hardware: Input, processing, and output devices
Supercomputers are key to future profitability
Computer systems: Integrating the power of technology
Processing and memory devices: power, speed and capacity
Secondary storage
Input and output devices: The gateway to computer systems
Computer system types, standards, selecting and upgrading
Etc.

4 Software: systems and application software
Global deployment of software improves key business process
Systems software
Application software
Programming language
Software issues and trends

5 Organizing data and Information
Building brand loyalty with better decision-making data
Data management
Data modeling and database models
Database management systems (DBMSs)
Database applications

6 Telecommunications and Networks
DHL: Implementing a global network
An overview of communications systems
Networks and distributed processing
Telecommunications and applications

7 The Internet, Intransigents, and Extranets
Lands' End: attracting customers with high-tech Internet services
Use and functioning of the internet
Internet services
The world wide web
Intranets and extranets

PART 3 BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
8 Electronic Commerce
Grocer Implements successful E-commerce business model
An Introduction t electronic commerce
E-commerce applications
Technology Infrastructure
Electronic payment systems
Etc.

9 Transaction Processing and enterprise resource planning systems
Transaction processing systems distinguish major retailers
An overview of transaction processing systems
Traditional transaction processing applications
Enterprise resource planning

10 Information and decision support systems
Using information systems to harness the knowledge of the firm
Decision making and problem solving
An overview of management information systems
Functional aspects of the MIS
An overview of decision support systems

11 Specialized business Information systems: Artificial Intelligence, Expert systems, virtual reality and other specialized
Artificial life: Intelligence bots: The new citizens of Cyberspace
An overview of artificial Intelligence
Virtual reality
Other specialized systems

PART 4 SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
12 Systems Investigation and analysis
Comcast Corporation: the challenges of providing broadband internet access
An overview of systems development
Systems development life cycles
Factors affecting systems development success
Systems Investigation

13 Systems design, Implementation, maintenance, and review
Simplifying international shipping systems design
Systems Implementation
Systems maintenance
Systems review

PART 5 INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS AND SOCIETY
14 Security, privacy and Ethical Issues in Information systems and the internet
U.S government: recommending strong medicine to combat cyber crime
Computer waste and mistakes
Computer crime
Privacy
The work environment

Includes bibliographical references and index.