Principles of Information Systems: A Managerial Approach

This book is advertised as the first management-oriented principles of is text designed for business curricula. It is a slickly produced text with all the bells and whistles, including numerous color photos, information boxes, an annotated instructor's edition, transparencies, problems with a solutions manual, student study guide, test item file, glossary, and accompanying presentation software. Chapters cover hardware, software, database management, telecommunications, MIS, decision support, expert systems, systems development, implementation and maintenance, end-user computing, information resource management as a developing field, and ethical issues of computing. Pitched at a low level, the text in- undates students with endless small sections on every conceivable topic. Sections in the chapter on telecommunications, for instance, include communications protocols, network operating systems, network topologies, classification of networks, coordinating data communications through token passing, contention, network considerations of security, and so on. While some sections will be of interest to social scientists (e.g., communications laws and regulations in this same chapter), cov