Publisher's Synopsis
Using MIS 2e has been designed to help students develop a solid understanding of information systems (IS) and to acquire the essential skills that all business professionals will need for managing IS in the future.
Each chapter opens with a 'MIS in context' feature drawn from the New Zealand business environment. Each feature focuses on issues with particular relevance to local organisations, SMEs and government businesses. In addition, every chapter contains an interview with a business professional working in IT or IS. These interviews are intended to provide examples of IS in practice and the variety of career options available to people who choose a career in the IS field. While the format and features of the text keep New Zealand in focus, they preserve the international context of our globally networked world.
Features included in the text and designed to support student learning:
- 'MIS in Context' features provide examples of MIS in practice in New Zealand business
- Interviews with MIS, IT and ICT professionals from New Zealand and overseas
- Integrated discussion of international issues within the text reinforces the global nature of information systems management
- New and updated 'ethical dimension' sections with each chapter
- Query-based chapter format focuses on key topic themes.
In addition, a range of supplements authored by Simon Park of Victoria University of Wellington are available online to lecturers. Material is available gratis to adopters of the text.
Supplements include: PowerPoint slides; Instructor's manual; Instructor's manual solution files; Test bank questions; Video supplement (a collection of video links relevant to key topics covered in each of the 12 chapters); Image library.
