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Information Technology for Management:
Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy, 5th Edition
Efraim Turban, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa
Dorothy Leidner, Baylor University
Ephraim McLean, Georgia State Univ.
James Wetherbe, Texas Tech University
ISBN: 0-471-70522-5
©2006
784 pages
Description
| Transformation is the key to survival in
today's highly competitive markets. That's why the new Fifth Edition of
Turban, Leidner, McLean, and Wetherbe's Information Technology for
Management: Transforming Business in the Digital Economy focuses on
how organizations can successfully use IT to transform themselves and
achieve the competitive advantage in the new digital economy.
Taking a practical, managerial-oriented approach, the text covers the
most recent technologies and helps motivate students and make the
material relevant to students from a wide range of backgrounds--from
majors to non-majors. 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.
Now updated with the latest coverage on technology, this new edition
welcomes new coauthor Dorothy Leidner (Baylor University), a well-known
authority in the field and an award-winning author who brings a global
perspective to the text. |
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New to this Edition
- Former Chapters 3 and 9 are now consolidated into a new Chapter 12: Using
IT to Achieve Competitive Advantage.
- New Chapter 8: Global Interorganizational Systems.
- Introduction of RFID and related ethical and legal issues.
- CRM moved from Chapter 6 to Chapter 7: Enterprise Systems.
- Increased strategy coverage throughout the text.
- A new chapter on systems acquisitions reflects current economy and trends
in outsourcing.
- Technical material from Chapter 14 now appears in a new Technology Guide,
A Technical View of Systems Analysis and Design, which covers the basics of
building systems and the SDLC lifecycle.
- Updated chapter on Knowledge Management.
Hallmark Features
- A strong managerial emphasis makes the text relevant and interesting to
business students.
- Covers the latest real-world developments, including introduction of
applied grid computing and utility computing.
- Focuses on how businesses operate and compete in a digital economy,
including the key issues of CEO s.
- A special chapter on mobile computing and the wireless revolution informs
students about opportunities and innovations.
- Presents superior coverage of e-business, strategy, and ethics throughout
the text.
- The text's real-world orientation features extensive, vivid examples and
engaging war stories and cases, which make concepts come alive and highlight
the importance of IT to all business students.
- Offers a global perspective with integrated examples and cases from a
variety of organizations.
- The outstanding author team features four top names in IS, including new
coauthor, Dorothy Leidner, Professor of Information Systems and Director of
the Center for Knowledge Management at Baylor University.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1: Strategic Use of Information Technology in the Digital Economy
Chapter 2: Information Technologies: Concepts and Management
Chapter 3: Network Computing, Discovery, Communication, and Collaboration
Chapter 4: E-Business and E-commerce
Chapter 5: Mobile, Wireless, and Pervasive Computing Environments
Chapter 6: Transaction Processing, Functional Applications, CRM, and Integration
Chapter 7: Enterprise Systems
Chapter 8: Global Interorganizational Systems
Chapter 9: Knowledge Management
Chapter 10: Data Management
Chapter 11: Decision Support and Intelligent Systems
Chapter 12: Using IT to Achieve Competitive Advantage
Chapter 13: Information Technology Economics
Chapter 14: Building Information Systems
Chapter 15: Managing Information Resources and IT Security
Chapter 16: The Impacts of IT on Organizations, Individuals, and Society
Technology Guide 1: Hardware
Technology Guide 2: Software
Technology Guide 3: Data and Databases
Technology Guide 4: Telecom
Technology Guide 5: The Internet and the Web
Technology Guide 6: A Technical View of Systems Analysis and Design
Chapter 1: Strategic Use of
Information Technology in the Digital Economy
Chapter 2: Information
Technologies: Concepts and Management
Chapter 3: Network Computing,
Discovery, Communication, and Collaboration
Chapter 4: E-Business and
E-commerce
Chapter 5: Mobile, Wireless,
and Pervasive Computing Environments
Chapter 6: Transaction Processing,
Functional Applications, CRM, and Integration
Chapter 7: Enterprise Systems:
From Supply Chains to ERP to CRM
Chapter 8: Global
Interorganizational Systems
Chapter 9: Knowledge
Management
Chapter 10: Data Management
Chapter 11: Management Decision Support
and Intelligent Systems
Chapter 12: Using IT to
Achieve Competitive Advantage
Chapter 13: Information
Technology Economics
Chapter 14: Building
Information Systems
Chapter 15: Managing
Information Resources and IT Security
Chapter 16: The Impacts of IT
on Organizations, Individuals, and Society
Technology Guide 1: Hardware
Technology Guide 2: Software
Technology Guide 3: Data and
Databases
Technology Guide 4: Telecom
Technology Guide 5: The
Internet and the Web
Technology Guide 6: A
Technical View of Systems Analysis and Design
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