This cutting-edge book focuses on how organizations can successfully use information technology to transform themselves and achieve the competitive advantage in the new digital economy. Throughout, the emphasis is on how IT provides organizations with strategic advantage by facilitating problem solving, increasing productivity and quality, improving customer service, and enabling business process reengineering. It also covers the latest real-world developments, including the introduction of applied grid computing and utility computing.
From Shanghai to San Francisco, IT is playing an increasingly vital role in helping organizations gain the competitive advantage around the globe. Thats why the Fifth Edition of Information Technology for Management offers a global perspective on how IT is transforming business. In this comprehensive, up-to-date Fifth Edition, Efraim Turban, Ephraim McLean, James Wetherbe, and new coauthor Dorothy Leidner present late-breaking developments in the field, as well as a new chapter on Global Interorganizational Systems. ITs About Transformation: The text focuses on how organizations operate and compete in the digital economy, and how IT can assist this transformation. The new edition also features increased strategy coverage. ITs Current: The Fifth Edition introduces new research, current examples and case studies, and updated reference materials. ITs Managerial: The texts strong managerial orientation makes IT relevant and interesting to business students. Technological topics are conveniently covered in six technology guides at the end of the text.
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Part I: IT in the Organization 1. Strategic Use of Information Technology in the Digital Economy 2. Information Technologies: Concepts and Management Part II: The Web Revolution 3. Network Computing, Discovery, Communication, and Collaboration 4. E-Business and E-commerce 5. Mobile, Wireless, and Pervasive Computing Environments Part III: Organizational Applications 6. Transaction Processing, Functional Applications, CRM, and Integration 7. Enterprise Systems 8. Global Interorganizational Systems Part IV: Managerial and Decision Support Systems 9. Knowledge Management 10. Data Management 11. Decision Support and Intelligent Systems Part V: Implementing and Managing IT 12. Using IT to Achieve Competitive Advantage 13. Information Technology Economics 14. Building Information Systems 15. Managing Information Resources and IT Security 16. The Impacts of IT on Organizations, Individuals, and Society Technology Guides (online): T1. Hardware T2. Software T3. Data and Databases T4. Telecom T5. The Internet and the Web T6. A Technical View of Systems Analysis and Design Glossary
ITs Going Global... From Shanghai to San Francisco, IT is playing an increasingly vital role in helping organizations gain the competitive advantage around the globe. Thats why the Fifth Edition of Information Technology for Management offers a global perspective on how IT is transforming business. In this comprehensive, up-to-date Fifth Edition, Efraim Turban, Ephraim McLean, James Wetherbe, and new coauthor Dorothy Leidner present late-breaking developments in the field, as well as a new chapter on Global Interorganizational Systems. ITs About Transformation: The text focuses on how organizations operate and compete in the digital economy, and how IT can assist this transformation. The new edition also features increased strategy coverage. ITs Current: The Fifth Edition introduces new research, current examples and case studies, and updated reference materials. ITs Managerial: The texts strong managerial orientation makes IT relevant and interesting to business students. Technological topics are conveniently covered in six technology guides at the end of the text. ITs Wireless: A special chapter covers innovations and opportunities in mobile computing and the wireless revolution. ITs Hands-on: Students solve realistic IT problems when they are 'hired' as interns at The Wireless Café, a simulated high-tech restaurant in Shanghai.
From Shanghai to San Francisco, IT is playing an increasingly vital role in helping organizations gain the competitive advantage around the globe. Thats why the Fifth Edition of Information Technology for Management offers a global perspective on how IT is transforming business. In this comprehensive, up-to-date Fifth Edition, Efraim Turban, Ephraim McLean, James Wetherbe, and new coauthor Dorothy Leidner present late-breaking developments in the field, as well as a new chapter on Global Interorganizational Systems. ITs About Transformation: The text focuses on how organizations operate and compete in the digital economy, and how IT can assist this transformation. The new edition also features increased strategy coverage. ITs Current: The Fifth Edition introduces new research, current examples and case studies, and updated reference materials. ITs Managerial: The texts strong managerial orientation makes IT relevant and interesting to business students. Technological topics are conveniently covered in six technology guides at the end of the text.
Aus dem Inhalt:
Part I: IT in the Organization 1. Strategic Use of Information Technology in the Digital Economy 2. Information Technologies: Concepts and Management Part II: The Web Revolution 3. Network Computing, Discovery, Communication, and Collaboration 4. E-Business and E-commerce 5. Mobile, Wireless, and Pervasive Computing Environments Part III: Organizational Applications 6. Transaction Processing, Functional Applications, CRM, and Integration 7. Enterprise Systems 8. Global Interorganizational Systems Part IV: Managerial and Decision Support Systems 9. Knowledge Management 10. Data Management 11. Decision Support and Intelligent Systems Part V: Implementing and Managing IT 12. Using IT to Achieve Competitive Advantage 13. Information Technology Economics 14. Building Information Systems 15. Managing Information Resources and IT Security 16. The Impacts of IT on Organizations, Individuals, and Society Technology Guides (online): T1. Hardware T2. Software T3. Data and Databases T4. Telecom T5. The Internet and the Web T6. A Technical View of Systems Analysis and Design Glossary
ITs Going Global... From Shanghai to San Francisco, IT is playing an increasingly vital role in helping organizations gain the competitive advantage around the globe. Thats why the Fifth Edition of Information Technology for Management offers a global perspective on how IT is transforming business. In this comprehensive, up-to-date Fifth Edition, Efraim Turban, Ephraim McLean, James Wetherbe, and new coauthor Dorothy Leidner present late-breaking developments in the field, as well as a new chapter on Global Interorganizational Systems. ITs About Transformation: The text focuses on how organizations operate and compete in the digital economy, and how IT can assist this transformation. The new edition also features increased strategy coverage. ITs Current: The Fifth Edition introduces new research, current examples and case studies, and updated reference materials. ITs Managerial: The texts strong managerial orientation makes IT relevant and interesting to business students. Technological topics are conveniently covered in six technology guides at the end of the text. ITs Wireless: A special chapter covers innovations and opportunities in mobile computing and the wireless revolution. ITs Hands-on: Students solve realistic IT problems when they are 'hired' as interns at The Wireless Café, a simulated high-tech restaurant in Shanghai.