MIS Cases: Decision Making with Application Software - Softcover

Miller, M. Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131454404 ISBN 13: 9780131454408

Publisher: Pearson, 2004

Synopsis

Appropriate for any course introducing management information systems from a business perspective. This casebook will serve as an ideal complement to most MIS/CIS textbooks.

Designed to demonstrate how software can support managerial decision-making activities, this casebook features 24 cases (more than another casebook currently on the market) covering a wide range of functional areas throughout the business, including finance/accounting, HR, production, and information systems. The cases are spread across three difficulty levels―basic, intermediate, and advanced. They present common managerial issues and problems, and encourage students to actually use their models to make decisions for the cases characters. They require students to apply spreadsheet, database, Web-page development, and/or presentation graphics software, often in an integrated manner. Many of the cases require students to prepare both written and oral presentations on their solutions. Among the topics covered in MIS Cases: Decision Making with Application Software Second Edition: forecasting, inventory decisions, what-if analyses, pricing strategies, billing decisions, and much more.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Lisa Miller is a professor of Information Systems and Operations Management for the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is currently serving as the chairperson for the Information Systems and Operations Management Department. She received her B.S. from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and her M.S. and Ed.D. from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Miller has over 17 years of teaching experience in the information systems area, having taught courses in systems analysis and design, data communications, management information systems, management information technology, and end user computing systems. She holds memberships in the Association of Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Association for Information Systems. She has served on the SWFAD (now called FBD) Board of Directors and held several officer positions for SWAS (now called ABIS), including President, Vice President, and Secretary/Treasurer. Her awards include the University of Central Oklahoma's CBA Distinguished Research Award and being named a 2003 Hauptman Fellow. Dr. Miller also serves as a consultant in the information systems area. Dr. Miller is the author of MIS Cases: Decision Making with Application Software.

From the Back Cover:

Prepare to make management level decisions with the most complete and interactive Management Information Systems casebook on the market?

This casebook contains 20 cases rated on a 1-5 level of difficulty. The reader will he required to use spreadsheets, databases and web page development tools to find solutions to the problems in the cases. Tutorials On these tools are included at www.prenhall.com/miller to ensure success.

Many cases will ask the reader to prepare written and oral presentations of their solutions, just as if the reader was making these decisions-at an actual firm.

A perfect complement to any of Prentice Hall's best-selling Management Information Systems texts:

Alter, Information Systems: Foundations of E-Business, 4/e
Gupta, Information Systems: Success in the 21st Century
Jessup & Valacich, Information Systems Today
Laudon & Laudon, Essentials o f Management Information Systems 5/e
Laudon & Laudon, Essentials o f Management Information Systems 7/e
McLeod & Schell, Management Information Systems 8/e
Nickerson, Bushtcss Information Systems 2/e

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0131454404
• ISBN 13: 9780131454408
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208