Essentials of Information Systems for Managers by Gabe Piccoli

By Gabe Piccoli

Piccoli's Information platforms for Managers bargains a fascinating, non-academic kind and actionable frameworks to assist managers envision the right way to enhance price extra IT-dependent strategic projects. The model with situations deals an "all in one" booklet to settle on varied circumstances. each one case has wide notes ready through the writer to aid train a significant direction. half III on "The Strategic use of IS" deals special and worthwhile frameworks that MBAs could be capable of positioned into perform. models offer flexibility and extra chapters on ERP and company Intelligence/Analytics advert price. The textual content is well-written with transparent examples of the theories and frameworks it introduces in addition to nice company circumstances that may be used for dialogue to higher train a few topic that's very important to winning managers sooner or later.

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The objective of IT deployment was business driven. In other words, the new technology was brought in to serve the growing or changing needs of the organization. The people who perceived and understood the need for this new way of doing things were the general and functional managers. These general and functional managers were not IT professionals and had no specific training in technology, but they worked in close partnership with the IT professionals in their organizations to ensure the successful deployment of the needed information systems and technology functionalities.

And Lopez P. (2011). “The world’s technological capacity to store, communicate and compute information,” Science. 7 McFarlan, F. Warren. The New Strategic Weapon: Information Technology. Faculty Seminar Series. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2003. Cd-rom. M. CHAPTER 1 / INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THE ROLE OF GENERAL AND FUNCTIONAL MANAGERS COMPUTERS HAVE BECOME EASIER TO USE One remarkable characteristic of the evolution of IT is that as computers become more powerful and more internally complex, they become easier to use.

The Internet offered Dell the chance to sell directly to the consumer (not just to business accounts), without having to compromise its direct model. In charge of the efforts was thirty-year-old Scott Eckert, a recent MBA graduate. Working closely with the information systems and technology group, Eckert developed Dell Online, the online store, and an application that allowed customers to configure their machine. As they say, the rest is history. Fueled by the staggering growth rates of the Internet itself, the online store generated $1 million in revenue per day in six months, $2 million/day in nine months, and $3 million/day in a little over a year since opening for business.

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