Business Information Systems: Technology, Development and Management for the E-Business: Amazon.co.uk: Paul Bocij, Dave Chaffey, Andrew Greasley, Simon Hickie: Books

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This major text assumes no prior knowledge of IS or IT and builds both business and Information systems knowledge to enable the reader to choose the right systems, to develop them and to manage them effectively.

The three-part structure to the book covers:

Introduction to business information systems
Business information systems development
Business information systems management

Suitable for any IS, BIS or MIS course from UG to MBA level within a Business or Computer Science Department.

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Guides students through choosing, developing and managing information systems to achieve business aims.

In modern business, good development and management of business information systems are central to the success or failure of the organisation. Starting from first principles, this book provides you with the knowledge needed to understand:

the technology of business information systems,
the development of efficient and reliable business information systems,
the strategic use of information systems for effective management and competitive advantage.

This third edition has completely updated coverage of contemporary topics like security, knowledge management and new technologies and continues to develop the practical skills that students need for problem solving and designing systems in the real world.

Frequent business examples, case studies and web-links bring the subject alive and there are a wealth of questions, exercises and further reading both in the book and online at www.pearsoned.co.uk/bis which help students to check their understanding, complete assignments and prepare for exams.

Business Information Systems is ideal for students taking a course in Business or Management Information Systems, Business Information Technology or Computer Science.

"Linking technology and management has never been easier. This is a great book, containing almost everything a business student should know about Information Systems." - Dr. R.H.J. Ronken, Department of Accounting and Information Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University

About the authors:

Paul Bocij has developed teaching materials for colleges and universities around the World and as a consultant he regularly advises a number of major organisations on IS issues, including design, development, security and training. He is an active researcher and the author of over twenty books.

Dr Dave Chaffey has 15 years experience of developing information management solutions in industry and education. Dave is visiting lecturer at the Universities of Cranfield, Leeds and Warwick.

Andrew Greasley lectures in Information Systems, Operations Management and Simulation Modelling at Aston Business School, Aston University.

Simon Hickie lectures in Business Information Systems in the University of Derby's Derbyshire Business School. He is also a Senior Academic Counsellor and Head of Operations for the second year of the University's Combined Subject Programme.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

A very good Jack of all! 28 April 2005

By A Customer

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I'm about to finish an IT and Management BSc course. We (everyone on the course!) bought this book in 2002 - and yes, I know it says published in 2003! ;) - This has been the best book on our entire course:
a) I've read the entire book (unusual for this kind of text),
b) I've referenced this book the most,
c) there's pretty much a bit of everything in it.
It covers most IT management topics (strategy etc.) - and is very good if you need to waffle about something you have not got a specialist book on (that is, minor points such as 'Resistance to Change').

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

Very helpful book.... 11 Sep 2003

This book practically got me through the last year of my degree in Business Information Systems! The majority of topics to do with IT/IS are dealt with this book in good detail. Each chapter contains definitions of the key terms, case studies and activities and concludes with a list of further reading and relevant web links. The book is well written, nicely laid out and contains up-to-date information.

A must for any IT/IS student!

This book is not up-to-date! 19 Sep 2011

By Birgerific

Although it is the 2008 version of the book, there are lots of things inside the book which are not up-to-date...

Examples:
- Many illustrations show hardware from the late 90ies
- Illustration on p.67 shows a desktop PC with "3 1/2 Floppy disk drive" and "Expansion bay for tape drives"
- The book uses 5 paragraphs describing PDAs, and only one sentence describing smartphones (p.72-73).
- Illustration on p.76 shows a ball mouse, not a laser mouse.
- Even the illustration on the front page shows an old iBook that has not been sold since early 2006.
- Pages 69-70 talk about "mainframe computers", "IBM-compatible" and "minicomputer". I'm not an expert, but aren't some of these words a little old-fashined? Page 70 also states that minicomputers are sometimes referred to as servers, which the authors claim can be confusing "since personal computers are also used as servers in some systems". Agian, I am not an expert, but this sounds not up-to-date for me... today the word server is used much more often than the word minicomputer.
- P. 71 describes different types of desktop computers: mini tower case, full tower case, micro case, server case...

Another thing I find strange, from page 92: "laser printers and inkjet printers have slightly higher cost per page than other types [of printers]". Hmm, my opinion is that b/w laser printers have the lowest cost per page of all printers... am I wrong?

Some of the information/illustrations in this book were not at all up-to-date when the book was published in 2008. The authors have to work harder to make an up-to-date version of the book.

Still, the book includes quite a bit of useful information - but I feel that I, as a non-IT-expert, can't trust which parts of the information is up-to-date, and which is not.