BusinessToday or Information Systems Solutions

Business.Today

Author: Stephen P Robbins

Stephen P. Robbins is a best selling author of management and organizational behavior texts. In his new integrative, innovative introduction to business text, business.today, he adopts a reader-friendly conversational writing style. This new text is already receiving praise for its integrated emphasis on careers, e-business, technology, ethics, globalization, and other evolving issues. Robbins offers comprehensive coverage of traditional functions of business--marketing, management, accounting, finance, --but with a fresh real world format, covering the functions where it makes sense, just as a business person would encounter them. The innovative approach of business today reflects the immense changes that have occurred in business practices. Robbins demonstrates that the new world of business is about identifying opportunities, creating viable strategies, building relationships, and providing quality goods and services.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Introduction
1.Welcome to Business.Today
2.Contemporary Business Challenges and Opportunities
3.Keeping Business in Perspective. Part II. Acquiring and Using Information
4.Monitoring the External Environment
5.Internal Information Systems and Decision Making. Part III. Building Relationships
6.Customers
7.Employees
8.Suppliers
9.Financial Sources
10.Other Stakeholders. Part IV. Providing Quality Goods and Services
11.Management and Coordination
12.Marketing Activities
13.Efficient Use of Financial Resources
14.Production and Operations
15.Creating and Managing an E-Business. Part V. Building Your Business Career Portfolio.

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Information Systems Solutions: A Project Approach

Author: Richard L Van Horn

The development, implementation and maintenance of computer-based information system solutions require innovative thinking, research and communication skills, extensive documentation, and the ability to effectively apply proposed solutions. Information System Solutions: A Project Approach integrates basic information systems knowledge with these requirements, culminating in their combined application in a project-based real-world scenario. Three different project models, an SDLC-based chapter organization and an emphasis on teamwork make this text easily adaptable to your teaching needs. Successfully tested in the classroom and approved by thousands of students, Information System Solutions: A Project Approach prepares your students to be active, effective contributors to the professional field of information systems.

The text includes:
• Attention to various areas of interest, including general IS concepts and environmental, client-specific factors (strategy, marketing, and organizational behavior).
• A chapter organization that follows the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Coverage of three project models-case, passive live, and active live-for classroom use that enrich and enliven students' learning experience through "Learning by Doing.