Description

New to this edition:

• Updated further reading section and web links.
• More information on E-Commerce throughout the whole course.
• Mobile Commerce/WAP Technology and its implications discussed in the unit on Network and Telecommunications - brings the course as up to date.
• Strategy unit, links between Business and IT strategies more explicit.
• A few cases on non profit organisations, offering a cross section of examples
• generally to make the course as Managerially focused as like the second edition of the text.
• Differential Feedback for every question and interaction in each unit, as well as graded questions at the end of each unit.
• Extended glossary.
• Animate images/diagrams.
• Video used to enhance a case studies.

Contents
1. Introduction to Information Management: Basic Concepts
2. Managerial Decision Making
3. Systems Theory and Introduction to Information Systems
4. The Technology of Computer-based Information Systems
5. Networks and Telecommunications
6. Software
7. Software for the Internet and Communications
8. Database Management
9. Business Applications
10. Internet - Business Applications
11. Systems Acquisition
12. Project Management
13. Initiating Systems Development
14. Systems Analysis
15. Systems Design
16. Systems Build, Implementation and Development
17. Business Information Systems Strategy
18. Managing End-user Computing
19. Business Information Systems Security
20. Managing Legal and Ethical Issues