Essentials of Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (6th Edition) [Hardcover]

Kenneth C. Laudon (Author), Jane P. Laudon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0131451448 | ISBN-13: 978-0131451445 | Publication Date: March 1, 2004 | Edition: 6

For sophomore/MBA-level MIS and Information Systems courses taught in MIS, IS, CIS, Business and Management departments. Ideal for courses on the quarter system and those that combine an MIS text with hands-on software, projects, or case studies. This exceptionally practical text prepares students for the constantly changing demands of using information systems as managers in today's fast-paced organizations. Drawing extensively on examples from real businesses, the authors focus on the increasingly crucial links between information systems and business value. They present an integrated framework that demonstrates exactly how management, organization, and technology elements interrelate. Next, they use this framework to describe and analyze a wide variety of IS problems and case studies, and to guide students through the books many projects. This Sixth Edition contains extensive new coverage reflecting the latest emerging technical and organizational trends. For example, it contains an entirely new chapter on supply chain management, CRM, enterprise systems, and the latest system platforms for delivering enterprise-wide services. It also includes a new chapter on the use of knowledge management systems for capturing, distributing, and applying organizational knowledge to improve organizational performance and management decision-making. The authors introduce the latest metrics for measuring the business value of IT, and present business-focused coverage of these and other leading-edge technologies: Wi-Fi wireless networks and security; P2P, grid, and utility computing; the next-generation Internet and Semantic Web; Web services and enterprise application integration; business process management; and object oriented modeling. This edition also contains an all-new guide to helping students build structured digital portfolios that demonstrate their skills and knowledge to future employers. Also new in this edition: a "Hands-On Guide to MIS" providing how-to instructions for designing and normalizing relational databases, using entity-relationship diagrams, constructing SQL queries, modeling business processes, and solving business case studies. The book contains a running case study, as well as hands-on application software exercises, e-commerce and e-business projects, and four comprehensive projects that require students to solve demanding problems that arise as firms become more digitally integrated and Internet enabled.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 672 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 6 edition (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131451448
• ISBN-13: 978-0131451445
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,109,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Money making scheme - rip off, May 12, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Essentials of Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (6th Edition) (Hardcover)

I view suspiciously authors who change covers of their books and launch a new edition every year or every 18 months.
This book as with the 5th edition is sub-standard.
If you are stuck with it as a compulsory read - borrow from a library. Don't buy.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars deluxe RIP OFF, December 19, 2004

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siskel and ebert "college kid" (Oklahoma where the wind comes...) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essentials of Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (6th Edition) (Hardcover)

I 'was forced' to buy this book for an MIS course. We all know how textbooks are scams anyway, but this one takes the cake. My college even had the balls to 'bundle' this with an MS Access book so we were stuck with a $170 bundle. All the info I needed to take the course was available on the website webct. If you can find a way to access that site, you don't even need this outrageously expensive book. I got an A in the course and never cracked the book. I just used the info on the website. You should try that route if you can, and forgo purchasing this book.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is a scam, September 8, 2004

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Issac "bookbuyer" (Midwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essentials of Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (6th Edition) (Hardcover)

My friend used Management Information Sustems: Managing the Digital Firm 8th edition. Now that I received this one I can see that 95% of of the content in the new book is identical to the one my friend has. Oh, right, the authors also added to the title the words "essentials of" Management...

I can believe the publisher let the authors publish this kind of book. A previous review says that the book is almost identical to the previous edition of the same book. Now I am saying that the book is almost identical to a different book writen by the same authors...this is outrageous.

Ah, yes. The cases at the end of the chapters are different