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Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology, v. 2.0

By: John Gallaugher

- Version: 2.0 other versions
- Pub Date: August 2013
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About the Author
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Preface
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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Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology V 2.0 is intended for use in undergraduate and/or graduate courses in Management Information Systems and Information Technology.

Version 2.0 of John's book retains the same structure and theory of the earlier versions, but Version 2.0 updates key statistics and examples, and includes up-to-date case material, such as a new Amazon chapter.

Adopting version 2.0 guarantees your students will have the most current text on the market, drawing real and applicable lessons from material that will keep your class offerings current and accessible.

John Gallaugher of Boston College, brings you a brand new version of his Management Information Systems textbook that teaches students how he or she will experience IS from a Managers perspective first hand through interesting coverage and bleeding-edge cases. There is no IS author today who keeps his text as "up-to-the-month" current as John Gallaugher.

To stay "up-to-the-minute" current, get involved with John's community by visiting and subscribing to his blog, The Week In Geek, where courseware, technology and strategy intersect and joining his Ning IT Community site where you can get more resources to teach Information Systems.

Shockingly, at a time when technology regularly appears on the cover of every major business publication, students find IS among the least appealing of management disciplines.

The teaching approach in Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology V 2.0 can change this. The text offers a proven approach that has garnered student praise, increased IS enrollment, and engaged students to think deeper and more practically about the space where business and technology meet. Every topic is related to specific business examples, so students gain an immediate appreciation of its importance. Rather than lead with technical topics, the book starts with strategic thinking, focusing on big-picture issues that have confounded experts but will engage students. And while chapters introduce concepts, cases on approachable, exciting firms across industries further challenge students to apply what they've learned, asking questions like:

Why was NetFlix able to repel Blockbuster and WalMart? How did Harrah's Casino's become twice as profitable as comparably-sized Caesar's, enabling the former to acquire the latter? How does Spain's fashion giant Zara, a firm that shuns the sort of offshore manufacturing used by every other popular clothing chain, offer cheap fashions that fly off the shelves, all while achieving growth rates and profit margins that put Gap to shame? Why do technology markets often evolve into winner-take-all or winner take-most scenarios? And how can managers compete when these dynamics are present? Why is Google more profitable than Disney? How much is Facebook really worth

The Information Systems course and discipline have never seemed more relevant, more interesting, and more exciting. Gallaugher's textbook can help teachers make students understand why.

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About the Author:

John Gallaugher
Boston College
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John Gallaugher is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. His excellence in the classroom was recently recognized by BusinessWeek, who ranked him as one of the top undergraduate business professors in the country. Prof. Gallaugher's research focuses on technology for competitive advantage, electronic commerce, network effects, and global information systems. His work has appeared in the MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Electronic Markets, the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Information & Management, Information Society, and the Journal of Business Venturing, among others. Prof. Gallaugher serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations and has served as a reviewer for MISQ, CACM, Management Science, and ISR. He publishes the Week in Geek - a digest of technology news. Prof. Gallaugher is a recipient of the Boston College Distinguished Teaching Award and has been recognized for his excellence in teaching by the Syracuse University Graduate School, Beta Gamma Sigma – the management honor society, and BusinessWeek. Podcasts of many of his lectures are available for free over iTunes. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the Graduate TechClub, has co-led the MBA International Management Experience (IME) to Europe, co-leads the IME Asia Experience, and he is the founding faculty member for both the graduate & undergraduate TechTrek West programs. Prof. Gallaugher has consulted to several organizations including Accenture, Alcoa, Brattle Group, ING Group, Staples, State Street, the U.S. Information Agency, and he has partnered with Duke Executive Education. His comments on business and technology have appeared in The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Seattle Times, the Associated Press, eWeek, The Daily Yomiuri (Japan) and The Nation (Thailand), among others. He has also worked and studied in the former Soviet Union and has conducted information systems research in Shanghai, China. He was born and raised in northern New Jersey, earned his undergraduate degree and MBA at Boston College, and earned his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the Syracuse University School of Management. His wife Kim is also a graduate of Boston College and Syracuse University and is currently a speech pathologist in the greater Boston area. The Gallaughers have two children, Ian and Maya.

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