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Textbook Details
By John Gallaugher
- Published
- December 2019
- Discipline
- Information Systems Textbooks
- ISBN (Digital)
- 978-1-4533-9788-6
Information Systems
Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology v8.0 is suitable for undergraduate or MBA-level courses on business or management information systems taught in two- or four-year schools that are often called Introduction to Information Systems, Strategic Information Systems, Capstone Information Systems course, Technology Entrepreneurship, Digital Organization/Digital Leadership, Management Information, Information Technology or similar.
Brief Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: Technology and the Modern Enterprise
- Chapter 2: Strategy and Technology: Concepts and Frameworks for Achieving Success
- Chapter 3: Zara: Fast Fashion from Savvy Systems
- Chapter 4: Netflix in Two Acts: Sustaining Leadership in an Epic Shift from Atoms to Bits
- Chapter 5: Moore's Law and More: Fast, Cheap Computing, and What This Means for the Manager
- Chapter 6: Disruptive Technologies: Understanding Giant Killers and Tactics to Avoid Extinction
- Chapter 7: Amazon: An Empire Stretching from Cardboard Box to Kindle to Cloud
- Chapter 8: Platforms, Network Effects, and Competing in a Winner-Take-All World
- Chapter 9: Social Media, Peer Production, and Leveraging the Crowd
- Chapter 10: The Sharing Economy, Collaborative Consumption, and Efficient Markets through Tech
- Chapter 11: Facebook: Platforms, Privacy, and Big Business from the Social Graph
- Chapter 12: Rent the Runway: Entrepreneurs Expanding an Industry by Blending Tech with Fashion
- Chapter 13: Understanding Software: A Primer for Managers
- Chapter 14: Software in Flux: Open Source, Cloud, Virtualized, and App-Driven Shifts
- Chapter 15: Data and Competitive Advantage: Databases, Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning
- Chapter 16: A Manager’s Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications
- Chapter 17: Information Security: Barbarians at the Gateway (and Just About Everywhere Else)
- Chapter 18: Google in Three Parts: Search, Online Advertising, and an Alphabet of Opportunity