Management Information Systems for the Information Age Information Center: What's New


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Management Information Systems for the Information Age, 6/e

Stephen Haag, University of Denver
Maeve Cummings, Pittsburg State University
Amy Phillips, University of Denver

What's New

The content changes for the sixth edition were driven by:

• Instructor feedback from the fifth edition.
• Changes that have occurred in the business world.
• Advances that have occurred in the technology arena.
• Changes made by our competitors.

As a group of authors and contributors working together, we carefully sifted through all the competitive scanning information we could gather to create a sixth edition that builds on the success of the fifth edition.

Throughout the text, you’ll find new or updated opening and closing case studies, Industry Perspectives, Global Perspectives, Group Projects, and "Team Work" and On Your Own projects, as well as new or expanded coverage of such topics as:

• Ubiquitous computing
• Top-line versus bottom-line considerations
• Run-Grow-Transform (RGT) framework
• Value chains
• Inter-modal transportation
• Fuzzy logic
• Biomimicry
• Agent-based modeling
• Swarm intelligence
• E-government
• Onshore outsourcing
• Nearshore outsourcing
• Offshore outsourcing
• ERP systems
• Business process outsourcing
• Pfishing
• RFID
• Software-as-a-service
• F2b2C
• Haptic interfaces

Most important, we’re pleased to have been able to respond to reviewer suggestions and provide the following:

More IT and business strategy integration issues by covering top-line versus bottom-line considerations, the run-grow-transform (RGT) framework, Porter’s Five Forces Model, and value chains in Chapters 1 and 2.
New Extended Learning Module L on using FrontPage to build Web sites.
New Extended Learning Module M on programming in Excel with VBA.
Updated Chapter 4 on decision support and artificial intelligence with more focus on agent-based modeling and swarm intelligence.
Updated Extended Learning Module E on networks including such topics as T1 and Ds3 lines.
Updated Chapter 5 on electronic commerce with expanded coverage of e-government.
Updated Chapter 6 on systems development with expanded coverage of onshore, nearshore, and offshore outsourcing.
Updated Chapter 7 on infrastructures and architectures with more focus on enterprise and ERP systems.
Updated Chapter 9 on emerging trends and technologies including software-as-a-service and RFID technologies.

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