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This textbook offers students a systematic guide to how information systems underpin organisational activity in today's global information society, covering everything from ICT infrastructure and the digital environment to electronic marketing, mobile commerce and design thinking. While academically rigorous and underpinned by the author's deep knowledge of the subject, an engaging writing style combined with extensive pedagogical features, cases and innovative examples from around the world ensure that the text remains accessible to those approaching the topic for the first time. Taking an approach that views businesses as complex systems, the book illustrates how valuable systems thinking ...
This textbook offers an essential introduction to design orientation in business, which impacts the way management is undertaken world-wide. Design orientation, as it applies to business, is the process through which a designer analyses business as a system, identifies motivation for changing the system, and designs improvement for the organisation, as well as ways of implementing this improvement. It involves strategic and innovative thinking, communication with key stakeholders, and change management. This book provides coverage of critical tools for design which enable business professionals to analyse existing ways of organizing and to design new ways of organizing. The reader will learn...
This core textbook provides a comprehensive and focused introduction for business students to the application of IS in organisations, using a systems-theory approach, with extensive examples, case studies and online videos to bring the topic alive. Terminology is admirably clear and topics are interconnected so that students get a sense of the whole, not a series of isolated issues. This new edition of Business Information Systems hones the framework and approach developed in the first edition, retaining its best features and making improvements to aid student engagement and learning. Written by a highly experienced lecturer and researcher, this will be essential reading for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students taking modules in information management systems in business.
Focused on the needs of business and management students, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to informatics and its application in organizations. Assuming no prior knowledge, it builds concepts incrementally, using a strong theoretical base supported by practical examples to develop a coherent, integrated understanding of the subject. Companion Website: http://www.palgrave.com/business/beynon-daviesbis/
Signs are critically important in all forms of activity, including business, because they establish what it is to be human. Without signs we could not think, we could not communicate what we think and we could not ensure that we collaborate together in our work, home and leisure. The aim of this book is to explain how and why they are significant.
This text combines strong theoretical and foundational concepts with a practical real world approach. Grounded in a strong European perspective, it provides balanced and integrative coverage of the full range of interdisciplinary issues within IS, including development, management, environment and technology. It is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of information systems with a basic knowledge of information technology.
Signs are critically important in all forms of activity, including business, because they establish what it is to be human. Without signs we could not think, we could not communicate what we think and we could not ensure that we collaborate together in our work, home and leisure. The aim of this book is to explain how and why they are significant.
The second edition of eBusiness provides a balanced coverage of electronic business and its role in the transformation of organisations. It takes a worldwide perspective and discusses the increasing role of information and communication technologies within both private and public sector organisations. A strong underpinning in theory is used throughout to help understand the practical implications of this important phenomenon. Chapters are integrated around an overview model of eBusiness and contain case material, exercises and reflective points. New to this Edition: - Revised structure which builds a conception of eBusiness from first principles - Integrated chapter case studies and revised free-standing international case studies - Coverage of new topics including mobile commerce, electronic government and cloud computing - Increased range of learning material in each chapter as well as fully updated online resources eBusiness is an ideal text for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students of e-business.
Most modern-day organizations have a need to record data relevant to their everyday activities and many choose to organise and store some of this information in an electronic database. Database Systems provides an essential introduction to modern database technology and the development of database systems. This new edition has been fully updated to include new developments in the field, and features new chapters on: e-business, database development process, requirements for databases, and distributed processing. In addition, a wealth of new examples and exercises have been added to each chapter to make the book more practically useful to students, and full lecturer support will be available online.