Information Systems Today

For the introductory information systems course required of all business majors across a variety of schools, colleges and universities, this text provides the essentials of information systems. It contains brief cases, long end of chapter cases, coming attractions, Web search opportunities, career implications, global perspectives and more. Features include opening scenarios that tell a short story about a company, person, or event to focus student attention on contemporary, real-world companies, technologies and/or issues; brief cases with short side bars on a company to give an angle on a particular topic; coming attractions which expose students to new technologies that relate to chapter material; Web search opportunities to encourage students to use the Internet to research chapter-related issues; team work exercises; global perspective vignettes and end of chapter material which includes key terms, review questions, self study questions and more.