Essentials of management information systems : organization and technology in the networked enterprise / Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon.

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Finally, the essential MIS text and technology package that will teach your students how to create competitive firms, manage global corporations, and provide useful and profitable products and services to customers Features: *Companion Web site-www.prenhall.com/laudon. An expanded companion Web site that enhances and reinforces text material in a variety of ways: *New Application software exercises including spreadsheet, database, presentation software, CASE tool, expert system, Web page development, and Internet exercises can be assigned as additional, stand-alone problems to reinforce specific chapter content. *International links to Web sites for companies based all over the world plus additional exercises for users interest in more international material. *Electronic commerce exercises and cases for each chapter help students explore the various Internet business models and electronic commerce capabilities discussed in the text. *New Management Decision Problems provide opportunities for practical group or individual leaning both in and out of the classroom. Students are required to use quantitative data to make decisions based on real management issues such as: *Hardware Ca

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I Organizations, Management, And The Network Revolution
• 1 The Information Systems Revolution: Transforming Business and Management
• 2 The Strategic Role of Information Systems
• 3 Information Systems, Organizations, and Management: Business Processes and Enterprise Systems
• II Information Technology Infrastructure
• 4 Computers and Information Processing
• 5 The Role of Software in the Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure
• 6 Managing Data Resources
• 7 Telecommunications, Networks, and the New Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure
• 8 The Internet: Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business
• III Building Information Systems: Contemporary Approaches
• 9 Redesigning the Organization with Information Systems
• 10 Approaches to System Building
• IV Management And Organizational Support Systems
• 11 Managing Knowledge
• 12 Enhancing Management Decision Making
• V Managing Information Systems
• 13 Information Systems Security and Control
• 14 Ethical and Social Impact of Information Systems
• 15 Managing International Information Systems
• International Cases
• Appendix A Business Process Redesign Project
• Name Index
• Organizations Index
• International Organizations Index
• Subject Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kenneth C. Laudon is a Professor of Information Systems at New York University's Stern School of Business. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has authored eleven books dealing with information systems, organizations, and society. Professor Laudon has also written over forty articles concerned with the social, organizational, and management impacts of information systems, privacy, ethics, and multi-media technology.

Professor Laudon's current research is on the planning and management of large-scale information systems and digital learning environments. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation to study the evolution of national information systems at the Social Security Administration, the IRS, and the FBI. A part of this research is concerned with computer-related organizational and occupational changes in large organizations, changes in management ideology, changes in public policy, and understanding productivity change in the knowledge sector.

Ken Laudon has testified as an expert before the United States Congress. He has been a researcher and consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment (United States Congress) and to the Office of the President, several executive branch agencies, and Congressional committees. Professor Laudon also acts as an in-house educator for several consulting firms and as a consultant on systems planning and strategy to several Fortune 500 firms. Ken works with the Concours Group to provide advice to firms developing enterprise systems.

Ken Laudon's hobby is sailing.

Jane Price Laudon is a management consultant in the information systems area and the author of seven books. Her special interests include systems analysis, data management, MIS auditing, software evaluation, and teaching business professionals how to design and use information systems.

Jane received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, her M.A. from Harvard University, and her B.A. from Barnard College. She has taught at Columbia University and the New York University Graduate School of Business. She maintains a lifelong interest in Oriental languages and civilizations.

The Laudons have two daughters, Erica and Elisabeth.

Essentials of Management Information Systems: Organization and Technology in the Networked Enterprise reflects a deep understanding of MIS research and teaching as well as practical experience designing and building real world systems.