Information Systems for Managers or Reading and Understanding Research

Information Systems for Managers: Texts and Cases

Author: Gabriele Piccoli

Information Systems for Managers is a text for managerial/MBA students intended to actively engage them in discussions and activities around information systems and information technology. Piccoli has interwoven many real-world examples into the text that show students how IS will effect their futures in management positions. Each chapter starts off with a mini-case to get the student's attention, build excitement, and foster interactive discussions. A plethora of unique, full-length cases are also composed within the text to hold student's attention and show them how IS and IT are of great interest to them as managers.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Foundations
1. Introduction
2. IS as a socio-technical system
3. The impact of IT on business Part II: The changing competitive environment
4. Modern IT change the competitive landscape
5. Electronic Commerce: New ways of doing business Part III: The strategic use of IT
6. Planning for the use of IS resources
7. Value creation and IT
8. Creating value with IT in the modern landscape
9. Appropriating value over the long term Part IV: Getting IT done
10. Justifying the IT investment
11. Development and Implementation Part IV: Trends
12. Modern System and Trends
13. Security and Ethics

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Reading and Understanding Research

Author: Lawrence F Lock

There is virtually no way to complete one's education without encountering a research report. Navigating through the mysteries of reports is the subject of this helpful new volume from the authors of the best-selling Proposals That Work. The authors presume no special background in research, and begin by introducing and framing the notion of reading research within a wider social context. Next they offer insight on when to seek out research, locating and selecting the right reports, and how to help evaluate research for trustworthiness. A step-by-step reading of reports from qualitative and quantitative studies follows, and the final chapters examine in greater detail the different types of research to be encountered and how to examine the research more critically.

Reading and Understanding Research is based on the notion that helping to demystify the process of consuming research will not only make for better students, but will help make for better research. It will be an ideal supplemental text for any novice researcher (and those who teach them) and will appeal across the disciplines.

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The authors of offer students in any discipline with no background in research a guide to navigating research reports, not only so they can extract needed information from them, but also to provide insights from the output position to improve their own reports when the time comes. They discuss the social context, when to seek research, locating and selecting the right reports, evaluating for trustworthiness, qualitative and quantitative studies, and the different types of research. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.