Information Systems Technology

Description

Features

• Bead Bar running case study—Opens each chapter with a vignette detailing “The Bead Bar managers‘ needs.

  • Places students in the role of a junior information systems consultant to a fictional company, requires them to try and solve a number of consultant tasks, and challenges them to build on paper a basic information system for a small company by the end of the course.

• Focus on Legal and Ethical Issues boxes throughout—Features topics such as privacy and copyright protection.

  • Introduces students to the concept of ethics and discusses ethical issues specific to IT.

• Focus on Careers boxes—In each chapter.

  • Details an information systems career and discusses the education and experience required, as well as provides a salary range and discussion of the roles and responsibilities of each career profiled.

• Focus on Innovations boxes throughout—Highlight current and future technologies.

  • Discusses emerging information technology or new concepts that may prove important in the next few years.

• Organization of the Book—The book is organized to teach the underlying technologies first, providing a solid foundation of knowledge about information systems, before discussing their use and management.

  • Part I, Understanding Information Systems Technology, provides an understanding of the main information technologies.

  • Part II, Using Information Systems, shows how the individual technologies discussed in Part I come together to form information systems that businesses use.

  • Part III, Building and Managing Information Systems, concentrates on how businesses can manage the development and use of information system to gain a competitive advantage and ensure the systems are secure.

• Business Content—The book is intended to stretch students‘ knowledge of their own personal uses of technology into an understanding of the business uses of technology and systems, providing relevance for the IT and non–IT major alike.

  • It does this in two main ways: 1) Its running case, The Bead Bar, which reveals the cross functionality of information technologies, and 2) Focus on... boxes, which highlight IT and IS issues in the business world.

• Real Case Studies—Brief case studies and questions highlighting real companies, are featured at the end of each chapter.

  • Provide an in–depth look at real company‘s IT problems and solutions.

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