This book contains 20 cases and four tutorials, centered around Microsoft Excel and Access. The tutorials help users learn, or brush up on, the pertinent application-based skills they'll need for the cases; and the cases provide scenario-based practice in making business decisions and using tools. These cases require users not only to go through the motions of creating spreadsheets and databases, but also to think through the processes they're learning in order to solve business problems.
As businesses undergo digital transformation, technologies will lead to greater efficiencies and change how we interact in traditional relationships among suppliers, producers, and customers, as well as between human and machine. One such technology is the introduction of management information systems (MIS) that provide a company with the coordination, control, analysis, and visualization of information by collecting from various digital environments. In today's digital age, information needs to be managed, and MIS have the ability to transfer the information obtained by computer systems to the business operations within the business models, business processes, and management functions. Advanced MIS and Digital Transformation for Increased Creativity and Innovation in Business is an essential reference source that discusses the impact of digital technologies in enterprises and their competitive environment on management information systems and examines the application of new technologies to support strategic decisions and realize exciting visions. Featuring research on topics such as machine learning, resource planning, and e-commerce, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, IT specialists, analysts, business professionals, training officers, software engineers, business administrators, scholars, researchers, and practitioners seeking coverage on future trends, issues, and challenges in relation to management information systems.
Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.
A casebook to complement most MIS/CIS textbooks. Designed to demonstrate how software can support managerial decision-making activities, this casebook features 20 cases (more than another casebook currently on the market) that cover functional areas of the firm, are spread across three difficulty levels basic, intermediate, and advanced and require students to apply spreadsheet, database, Web-page development, and/or presentation graphics software, often in an integrated manner. The cases present common managerial issues and problems and encourage students to actually use their models to make decisions for the case's characters. Many of the cases require students to prepare both written and oral presentations of their solutions.
The 2nd edition of Gardner's MIS Cases: Solving Small Business Scenarios Using Application Software is a problem solving book that contains practical assignments with business solving scenarios to grasp the skills for Microsoft Excel, Access, and simple web design. Each chapter offers a teaching case and two follow-up working cases as well as limited screen shots, only including a description of the case to solve, followed by questions to further reconfirm the skill set; existing only as figures of completed tasks.
Advanced Topics in End User Computing features the latest research findings dealing with end user computing concepts, issues, and trends. Empirical and theoretical research concerned with all aspects of end user computing including development, utilization, and management are included. Volume three is specifically interested in those studies that show a significant contribution by relating end user computing to end user satisfaction, end user productivity, and strategic and competitive advantage. *Note: This book is part of a new series entitled ?Advanced Topics in End User Computing?. This book is Volume Three within this series (Vol. III, 2004).
Advanced Topics in Global Information Management includes original material concerned with all aspects of global information management in three broad areas: Global Information Systems in Business Fuctions, Information Technology in Specific Regions of the World, Management of Global Information Resources and Applications. Both researchers and practitioners disseminate the evolving knowledge in these broad categories and the book examines a variety of aspects of global information management dealing with development, usage, failure, success, policies, strategies and applications of this valuable organizational resources.
Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
