Information Systems Management in Business: Text and Cases - Softcover

Harekrishna Misra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 812034796X ISBN 13: 9788120347960

Publisher: Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Management Information Systems (MIS) has fast emerged as a multi-disciplinary area with strategic interfaces to achieve organisational objectives. This comprehensive book discusses the underlying principles of business and development organisations, identifies their core areas and prescribes approaches to develop MIS.

The book is divided into five parts:

• Part I—Understanding Organizations for MIS deals with organisational issues and focuses on the rationale behind creating organisations, especially business and development organisations, to understand their distinguishing features.
• Part II—Systems Approach to Organizations covers conceptualisation, identification, design and development of an Information System (IS) for the organisation in order to have better systems in place to support organisational goals.
• Part III—Understanding MIS discusses the relevance of MIS in organisations and the forms it can take to meet the strategic needs of the respective organisations.
• Part IV—Understanding Information Technologies describes possible approaches to plan, identify and deploy ICT in the acquiring organisations and provides insight into the barriers that creep in during identification and deployment of IS and ICT keeping in view the organisational objectives.
• Part V—Planning and Implementation of MIS concludes with a discussion on preparation of MIS plan and issues related to its implementation.

The book is intended for postgraduate students of management specializing in rural management and IT.

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About the Author

Harekrishna Misra, PhD, is Professor, IT and Information Systems Group, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India. He has authored a book and published many articles in reputed journals. A member of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and Association of Information Systems, USA, Professor Misra has more than 30 years of industrial and academic experience in the field of ICT. His research interests include software engineering, e-governance, ICT for development, and ICT-enabled value chain in rural enterprises.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 812034796X
• ISBN 13: 9788120347960
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400