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For introductory courses in Management Information Systems Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS, provides a concise introduction to MIS with a hands-on approach to business processes. Authored by Earl H. McKinney, Jr. and David M. Kroenke, the text shows students exactly how businesses use information systems and technology to accomplish their goals, objectives, and competitive strategy. Packed with examples of business situations, both real and fictitious, the book helps students understand what business systems actually are–and see why they are so important. The text consists of the five SAP-focused chapters from McKinney and Kroenke’s Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS. A pair of appendices after chapters four and five contains SAP process exercises that enable students to get hands-on experience applying what they’re learning in the course. This clear emphasis on business processes, and SAP in particular, makes Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS, the ideal text for courses attended by students not majoring in MIS. 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.

Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS, Global Edition

• Brief Contents


• Contents


• Preface


• Acknowledgments


• About the Authors


• Part 1: Why MIS?


• Chapter 1: The Importance of MIS


• Q1. Why is Introduction to MIS the Most Important Class in the Business School?


• How Can I Attain Job Security?


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


• Jobs


• What is the Bottom Line?


• Q2. What is MIS?


• Processes, Information Systems, and Information


• Management and Use


• Achieve Strategies


• Q3. How Does MIS Relate to Organizational Strategy?


• Q4. What Five Forces Determine Industry Structure?


• Q5. What is Competitive Strategy?


• Q6. How Does Competitive Strategy Determine Value Chain Structure?


• Primary Activities in the Value Chain


• Support Activities in the Value Chain


• Value Chain Linkages


• MIS InClass 1: Industry Structure ? Competitive Strategy ? Value Chains ? Business Processes


• Q7. How Does Competitive Strategy Determine Business Processes and Information Systems?


• Ethics Guide: Ethics and Professional Responsibility


• Case Study 1: Singing Valley


• Chapter 2: Business Processes, Information Systems and Information


• Q1. What is a Business Process?


• An Example Business Process


• Why Do Organizations Standardize Business Processes?


• Q2. What is an Information System?


• How Can I Use the Five-Component Model?


• Q3. How Do Business Processes and Information Systems Relate?


• The Role of Procedures


• Q4. How Do Structured and Dynamic Processes Vary?


• Characteristics of Structured Processes


• Characteristics of Dynamic Processes


• Q5. What is Information?


• Definitions Vary


• Common Elements in the Definitions


• How Can I Use These Ideas A