Information Technology for Management: Making Connections for Strategic Advantage
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0471178985 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 848 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Good for MIS In the MIS department of a multinational company, the survival skills are not thorough knowledge of VB, ASP, PowerBuilder or JCL, but the overall understanding of company's huge system. You don't do coding step by step by ask for outsourcing. This book shows the computer system blueprints of big corporations. When you bosses ask you about what's the future of company Intranet, you better be able to give him/her a satisfactory answer in terms of company¡¦s overall profit/loss.But if you want to be a creative professional, this book might let you down. Chapter 3 Caterpillar's case study is back to 1993.. a well intentioned book that falls far short of the mark A Customer Considering that this book is in its second edition, it's interesting to note the number of bloopers in it. For instance, on page 519, there are 2 mistakes: one is a typo (no spell checker used); the other is grammatical (no editor used!). A serious omission is the impact of technology on leadership in organisations (at least this is a serious omission for a book so titled). The publishers (Wiley) probably have something to answer for as well, whereby the advertising doesn't match the product. This isn't the first time this has happened with them either. Normally it isn't a problem, but when you purchase through A. Book Doesn't Connect Chris Reed Information Technology for Management, while a nice paperweight, provides little more than an illustrated dictionary of IT related terms. Its chapters feature lengthy and overly verbose descriptions of fairly basic terms, and far too many case studies and examples. Of course, such examples are important, however the present work tends to rely upon third-party analyses of IT/IS installations, making one wonder whether Turban, McLean, and Wetherbe are in fact authors, or merely just librarians compiling information for this seemingly derivative work.Moreover, the text includes a significant number of charts and diag
This offers you a virtual experience working as an intern and enables you to apply he concepts you have studied in the text.Superior coverage of e-commerce.Get additional real-world business content with Business Extra Select!With Wiley’s Business Extra Select program, you can combine Information Technology for Management, Fourth Edition with journal articles, cases, and readings from sources such as INSEAD, Ivey and Harvard Business School Cases, Fortune, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and much more! For more information, go to wiley/college/bxs.. From the Back Co
Dr. Professor Turban is currently on the faculty of City University of Hong Kong, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Business Administration. After brief service in the U.S. Professor Turban’s current major interest is electronic commerce, strategy, and implementation. In his over thirty years of teaching, professor Turban has served as
A practical, managerial-oriented approach to getting the most out of IT. The authors examine case studies to highlight new technology and applications including fuzzy logic, neural computing, and hypermedia.. Managers will learn the most effective ways to use information systems in this new edition