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Cover of Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology v1.3.1
Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology v1.3.1
By: 
John Gallaugher
Published: 
January 2013
Discipline: 
Information Systems Textbooks
ISBN (Digital): 
978-1-4533-4623-5

Brief Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: Technology and the Modern Enterprise

Chapter 2: Strategy and Technology: Concepts and Frameworks for Understanding What Separates Winners from Losers

Chapter 3: Zara: Fast Fashion from Savvy Systems

Chapter 4: Netflix in Two Acts: The Making of an E-commerce Giant and the Uncertain Future of Atoms to Bits

Chapter 5: Moore’s Law: Fast, Cheap Computing and What It Means for the Manager

Chapter 6: Understanding Network Effects

Chapter 7: Social Media, Peer Production, and Web 2.0

Chapter 8: Facebook: Building a Business from the Social Graph

Chapter 9: Understanding Software: A Primer for Managers

Chapter 10: Software in Flux: Partly Cloudy and Sometimes Free

Chapter 11: The Data Asset: Databases, Business Intelligence, and Competitive Advantage

Chapter 12: A Manager’s Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications

Chapter 13: Information Security: Barbarians at the Gateway (and Just About Everywhere Else)

Chapter 14: Google in Three Parts: Search, Online Advertising, and Beyond


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