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As organizations continue to operate in an increasingly competitive and global marketplace,
workers in all business areas including accounting, finance, human resources, marketing,
operations management, and production must be well prepared to make significant contributions
required for success. Regardless of your future role, you need to understand what
information systems can and cannot do and be able to use them to help you accomplish your
work. You will be expected to discover opportunities to use information systems and to
participate in the design of solutions to business problems employing information systems.
You will be challenged to identify and evaluate information systems options. To be successful,
you must be able to view information systems from the perspective of business and organizational
needs. For your solutions to be accepted, you must recognize and address their impact
on fellow workers, customers, suppliers, and other key business partners. For these reasons,
a course in information systems is essential for students in today’s high-tech world.
Principles of Information Systems: A Managerial Approach, Ninth Edition, continues the
tradition and approach of the previous editions. Our primary objective is to provide the best
information systems text and accompanying materials for the first information technology
course required of all business students. We want you to learn to use information technology
to ensure your personal success in your current or future job and to improve the success of
your organization. Through surveys, questionnaires, focus groups, and feedback that we have
received from current and past adopters, as well as others who teach in the field, we have
been able to develop the highest-quality set of teaching materials available to help you achieve
these goals.
Principles of Information Systems: A Managerial Approach, Ninth Edition, stands proudly
at the beginning of the IS curriculum and remains unchallenged in its position as the only
IS principles text offering the basic IS concepts that every business student must learn to be
successful. In the past, instructors of the introductory course faced a dilemma. On one hand,
experience in business organizations allows students to grasp the complexities underlying
important IS concepts. For this reason, many schools delayed presenting these concepts until
students completed a large portion of the core business requirements. On the other hand,
delaying the presentation of IS concepts until students have matured within the business
curriculum often forces the one or two required introductory IS courses to focus only on
personal computing software tools and, at best, merely to introduce computer concepts.
This text has been written specifically for the introductory course in the IS curriculum.
Principles of Information Systems: A Managerial Approach, Ninth Edition, treats the appropriate
computer and IS concepts together with a strong managerial emphasis on meeting business
and organizational needs. |
