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This text aims to show future managers how the computer can help them to solve business problems. Focusing on the role of managers within an organization, the text emphazises the development of computer-based information systems to support an organization's objectives and strategies. In this Sixth Edition, four new chapters - on international computer use, quality, ethics, and management of information technology - relate recent business trends to management information systems. A running case study illustrates MIS concepts in the realworld, and seven technical modules describe the tools of systems development. There is also updated coverage of multimedia, and four-colour design. It is designed for students on senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in MIS.
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This introduction to MIS continues to show students the potential of the computer as an information system, as well as how such potential can be attained. Concentrating on the role of executives and managers in the system, the text emphasizes the systems approach for developing and controlling computer-based information systems in an organization. It includes such topics as database management, data communications, office automation, executive information systems, and information resources management. This book emphasizes a systems approach and provides "how to" instruction in the use of systems tools - flowcharting, data flow diagrams, data dictionary, HIPD, and Warnier-Orr diagrams. It presents real-world applications for the functional areas of the firm - marketing, manufacturing and finance - with a chapter on each; MIS from the executive point-of-view is also presented.
It also contains an extensive bibliography at the end of each chapter with references from general management sources and from sources specific to the data processing industry; incorporates a new chapter on expert systems, which describes how these systems are used in decision-making; emphasizes computer-based information systems, focusing on MIS as an organizational information system and decision support systems as a personal information system; explores the effects of information resources management on computer use; expands appendixes on systems analysis and design tools to include CASE tools; provides new cases in every chapter; many chapters also contain new experiential exercises and problems; and includes a glossary that defines all key terms in the text."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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