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Students graduating today face a tough job market—making
it important that they develop the expertise and critical
thinking skills that give them a competitive edge.
Information Technology for Management, 8th edition is
designed to give students an edge when they face the
challenges and opportunities that business careers present.
This textbook covers the content that students need to
learn and to be able to use for successful and sustainable
management careers in any of the functional areas. For
example, students learn the business value and process of
actually doing mobile commerce, managing customer and
supplier relationships, using business intelligence and
cloud computing applications, and many other IT-centric
business functions.
Each chapter reinforces important business principles:
What companies can do depends on what their information
systems can do—and what information systems
can do depends on what managers understand about the
latest IT, such as mobile devices, wireless networks, social
media, logistic systems, interoperability, collaboration,
and Internet apps. As information technologies mature
and become more widespread, they add to the global IT
infrastructure that support next-generation (next-gen) ITbased
business strategies.
Our goal is to develop a textbook that covers meaningful
foundations and trends in information systems
and technology in-depth and in-context; and to provide
students with a portfolio of IT skills to give them a competitive
edge when competing for jobs and job advancements.
We believe that providing content in-context—i.e.,
within a business context—is essential to the understanding
and value of traditional and emerging information
systems and technologies. Our emphasis is on both
operational and strategic performance of all types of
organizations—for-profit, nonprofit, healthcare, and
government agencies. |