Management information systems
Subtitle: moving business forward
By: R. Kelly Rainer, Jr., Brad Prince, Hugh Watson
Contributors: Prince, Brad, 1978-; Watson, Hugh J.
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Hoboken, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9781118895627; 9781118895382
Subjects: Management information systems; COMPUTERS / Information Technology
Description: "The 3rd Edition of Management Information Systems promotes active learning like no other text in the market. Each chapter is comprised of tightly coupled concepts and section-level student activities that transport your students from passively learning about IS to doing IS in a realistic context. The integration of Microsoft Excel and Access exercises at the end of every chapter enables students to practice their Microsoft application skills in the context of the chapter material"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  Chapter 1: Introduction to Information Systems Chapter 2: Organizational Strategy, Competitive Advantage, and Information Systems Chapter 3: Data and Knowledge Management Chapter 4: Telecommunications and Networking Chapter 5: Business Intelligence Chapter 6: Ethics and Privacy Chapter 7: Information Security Chapter 8: Social Computing Chapter 9: E-Business and E-Commerce Chapter 10: Wireless, Mobile Computing, and Mobile Commerce Chapter 11: Information Systems within the Organization Chapter 12: Extending the Organization to Customers Chapter 13: Extending the Organization Along the Supply Chain Chapter 14: Acquiring Information Systems and Applications Plug IT in 1: Business Processes and Business Process Management Plug IT in 2: Hardware and Software Plug IT in 3: Fundamentals of Relational Database Operations Plug IT in 4: Cloud Computing Plug IT in 5: Intelligent Systems Plug IT in 6: Project Management Plug IT in 7: Protecting Your Information Assets .