Modern Information Systems for Managers

Key Distinctions:

• Carefully examines new and future issues related to successful information systems design
  
• Gives the reader an understanding of upcoming technologies
  
• Contains a complete discussion of information systems analysis, design, and implementation
  
• Presents a comprehensive discussion or organizational, social, and legal impacts of information systems early in the text
  
• Each chapter contains learning objectives which leave the reader with a measurable goal
  
• Introduces various software products and their application to both micro and mainframe computers
  
• Each chapter concludes with 20 to 25 review questions

Table of contents

Part I: Information Systems Basics

Chapter 1: Information Systems: An Overview
Chapter 2: Hardware and Software Concepts
Chapter 3: Database Concepts
Chapter 4: Data Communications Concepts
Chapter 5: Organizational, Social, and Legal Impacts of Information Systems

Part II: Building And Utilizing Effective Information Systems

Chapter 6: Tools and Techniques for Building Information Systems
Chapter 7: Total Quality Management and Information Systems Reengineering
Chapter 8: Building Effective Information Systems in Functional Areas

Part III: Information Systems In Action

Chapter 9: The Information Superhighway and Global Information Systems
Chapter 10: Decision Support and Executive Information Systems
Chapter 11: Group Support Systems: Collaborative Computing Has Started
Chapter 12: Geographic Information Systems
Chapter 13: Multimedia and Virtual Reality Information Systems
Chapter 14: Applied Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Development

Index