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  For undergraduate Introductory Management Information Systems courses.   Exploring how people use IS to solve business problems, this engaging introduction explains why MIS is the most important course in the business school–showing students how businesses use information systems and technology to accomplish their goals, objectives, and competitive strategy. Three unique Guides per chapter focus on the themes of ethics, security, and other timely topics; a number of illustrative cases, exercises, projects, and other aids ensure that students connect the knowledge in the text to everyday life. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

MIS Essentials, Global Edition

• Contents


• Chapter Extensions


• To the Student


• About the Author


• Part 1: Why MIS?


• This Could Happen to You


• Chapter 1: The Importance of MIS


• This Could Happen to You


• 1. Why is Introduction to MIS the Most Important Class in the Business School?


• What are Cost-Effective Business Applications of Facebook, Twitter, and Whatever Will Soon Appear?


• How Can I Attain Job Security?


• How Can Intro to MIS Help You Learn Nonroutine Skills?


• Jobs


• What is the Bottom Line?


• 2. What is an Information System?


• Experiencing MIS InClass Exercise 1: Information Systems and Online Dating


• 3. What is MIS?


• Management and Use of Information Systems


• Achieving Strategies


• 4. Why is the Difference Between Information Technology and Information Systems Important to You?


• 5. What is Your Role in is Security?


• Strong Passwords


• Password Etiquette


• How Does the Knowledge in this Chapter Help You?


• Ethics Guide: Ethics and Professional Responsibility


• Guide: Five-Component Careers


• Case Study 1: The Amazon of Innovation


• Chapter 2: Business Processes, Information Systems, and Information


• This Could Happen to You


• 1. Why Does the AllRoad Team Need to Understand Business Processes?


• 2. How Can Business Process Modeling Help AllRoad?


• How AllRoad Works


• The Existing AllRoad Process


• How AllRoad Processes Must Change to Support 3D Printing


• 3. How Can Information Systems Improve Process Quality?


• What is Process Quality?


• Using Information Systems to Improve Process Quality


• 4. What is Information?


• Definitions Vary


• Where is Information?


• Experiencing MIS InClass Exercise 2: How Mu