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Cover of Business Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology v4.0.5
Business Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology v4.0.5
By: 
John Gallaugher
Published: 
January 2017
Discipline: 
Information Systems Textbooks
ISBN (Digital): 
978-1-4533-8244-8

Brief Table of Contents

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

Chapter 2: A Manager’s Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications

Chapter 3: Moore’s Law and More: Fast, Cheap Computing, and What This Means for the Manager

Chapter 4: Software in Flux: Open Source, Cloud, Virtualized and App-driven Shifts

Chapter 5: Understanding Network Effects: Strategies for Competing in a Platform-Centric, Winner-Take-All World

Chapter 6: Social Media, Peer Production, and Web 2.0

Chapter 7: Google in Three Parts: Search, Online Advertising, and an Alphabet of Opportunity

Chapter 8: The Data Asset: Databases, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Big Data, and Competitive Advantage

Chapter 9: Strategy and Technology: Concepts and Frameworks for Understanding What Separates Winners from Losers

Chapter 10: Information Security: Barbarians at the Gateway (and Just About Everywhere Else)


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