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Title Management information systems / Heather Gray [and six others]
Edition First Australasian edition
Published Milton, Queensland : Wiley, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (636 pages) : color illustrations, photographs
Contents ""Cover page""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Brief contents""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About the authors""; ""Applications at a glance""; ""How to use this resource""; ""Digital self-study resources""; ""CHAPTER 1 Introduction to information systems""; ""1.1�Why should I study information systems?""; ""1.2�Overview of computer-based information systems""; ""1.3�How does IT impact organisations?""; ""1.4�Why are information systems important to society?""; ""CHAPTER 2 Organisational strategy, competitive advantage and information systems""
""2.1�Business pressures, organisational responses and IT support""""2.2�Competitive advantage and strategic information systems""; ""2.3�Business�IT alignment""; ""CHAPTER 3 Data and knowledge management""; ""3.1�Managing data""; ""3.2�The database approach""; ""3.3�Database management systems""; ""3.4�Data warehouses and data marts""; ""3.5�Knowledge management""; ""CHAPTER 4 Telecommunications and networking""; ""4.1�What is a computer network?""; ""4.2�Network fundamentals""; ""4.3�The internet and the world wide web""; ""4.4�Network applications""
""CHAPTER 5 Business intelligence""""5.1�Managers and decision making""; ""5.2�What is business intelligence?""; ""5.3�Business intelligence applications for data analysis""; ""5.4�Business intelligence applications for presenting results""; ""5.5�Business intelligence in action: corporate performance management""; ""CHAPTER 6 Ethics and privacy""; ""6.1�Ethical issues""; ""6.2�Privacy""; ""CHAPTER 7 Information security""; ""7.1�Introduction to information security""; ""7.2�Unintentional threats to information systems""; ""7.3�Deliberate threats to information systems""
""7.4�What organisations are doing to protect information resources""""7.5�Information security controls""; ""CHAPTER 8 Social computing""; ""8.1�Web 2.0""; ""8.2�Fundamentals of social computing in business""; ""8.3�Social computing in business: shopping""; ""8.4�Social computing in business: marketing""; ""8.5�Social computing in business: customer relationship management""; ""8.6�Social computing in business: human resource management""; ""8.7�Crowdsourcing""; ""CHAPTER 9 E-business and e-commerce""; ""9.1�Overview of e-business and e-commerce""
""9.2�Business-to-consumer (B2C) electronic commerce""""9.3�Business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce""; ""9.4�Ethical and legal issues in e-business""; ""CHAPTER 10 Wireless, mobile computing and mobile commerce""; ""10.1�Wireless technologies""; ""10.2�Wireless computer networks and internet access""; ""10.3�Mobile computing and mobile commerce""; ""10.4�Pervasive computing""; ""10.5�Wireless security""; ""CHAPTER 11 Information systems within the organisation""; ""11.1�Transaction processing systems""; ""11.2�Functional area information systems""
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 26, 2015)
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Subject Management -- Communication systems.
Management information systems -- Australia
Information retrieval -- Australia
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
Information retrieval
Management -- Communication systems
Management information systems
Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Gray, Heather, author
ISBN 9780730321200
0730321207