Product Description
Appropriate for any course introducing management information systems from a business perspective. This casebook will serve as an ideal complement to most MIS/CIS textbooks.
Designed to demonstrate how software can support managerial decision-making activities, this casebook features 24 cases (more than another casebook currently on the market) covering a wide range of functional areas throughout the business, including finance/accounting, HR, production, and information systems. The cases are spread across three difficulty levels—basic, intermediate, and advanced. They present common managerial issues and problems, and encourage students to actually use their models to make decisions for the cases characters. They require students to apply spreadsheet, database, Web-page development, and/or presentation graphics software, often in an integrated manner. Many of the cases require students to prepare both written and oral presentations on their solutions. Among the topics covered in MIS Cases: Decision Making with Application Software Second Edition: forecasting, inventory decisions, what-if analyses, pricing strategies, billing decisions, and much more.
From the Back Cover
Prepare to make management level decisions with the most complete and interactive Management Information Systems casebook on the market?
This casebook contains 20 cases rated on a 1-5 level of difficulty. The reader will he required to use spreadsheets, databases and web page development tools to find solutions to the problems in the cases. Tutorials On these tools are included at www.prenhall.com/miller to ensure success.
Many cases will ask the reader to prepare written and oral presentations of their solutions, just as if the reader was making these decisions-at an actual firm.
A perfect complement to any of Prentice Hall's best-selling Management Information Systems texts:
Alter, Information Systems: Foundations of E-Business, 4/e
Gupta, Information Systems: Success in the 21st Century
Jessup & Valacich, Information Systems Today
Laudon & Laudon, Essentials o f Management Information Systems 5/e
Laudon & Laudon, Essentials o f Management Information Systems 7/e
McLeod & Schell, Management Information Systems 8/e
Nickerson, Bushtcss Information Systems 2/e
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