Processes, Systems, and Information

Description

New and updated features of this title

Keep up with the IS landscape

• NEW: Updates to coverage and figures reflect the latest IS innovations, such as those concerning blockchain, mobile payments, group messaging and IoT. Expanded coverage of robotics, Big Data and SAP HANA S/4 is also included.
• NEW: Security coverage has been expanded to include an early chapter devoted to security and essential security topics integrated throughout.
• NEW: Chapter extensions offer the option to dive deeper into key topics, such as Location Based Data, AI, Robots, hardware, software, systems development and IS careers.

Engage students with turnkey, in-class activities

• NEW: 8 fully revised chapter-opening vignettes apply key content to fictitious business situations.
• UPDATED: Upgrades to MIS InClass exercises provide more engagement. Half of these part-lab, part-team exercises are updated, and all others improved.

Teach and learn in the most accessible, readable way

• UPDATED: Coverage reworked to stay current with rapid changes in the IS field include 10 end-of-chapter cases featuring IS at work in real-world organizations and 7 Office Application Exercises that allow students to complete business application assignments in Excel or Access.

For introductory courses in Management Information Systems

 

A process focus that’s engaging, relevant, and easy to teach

Transform your MIS course with Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS — a hands-on, process approach to business. Earl H. McKinney, Jr., and David M. Kroenke show students exactly how businesses use information systems and technology to create competitive strategies, support business processes, and accomplish their goals. Complete with numerous examples of business situations, this book helps students understand what business systems actually are and why they’re so important.

 

In the 3rd Edition, you’ll find a reflection of the current technological landscape, coverage of technologies new to the business scene, and a strong emphasis on security. Its clear and concise presentation, within the process context, makes Processes, Systems, and Information the ideal book for majors and non-majors alike. Non-majors will see the vital role IS plays in supporting their business processes.

 

Also available with MyLab MIS

MyLab™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. And, with Decision-Making Mini Simulations and Auto-Graded Excel and Access Projects, students learn how MIS concepts will help them succeed in their future careers. Learn more about MyLab MIS.

Hallmark features of this title

• 2-page ethics guides in every chapter present ethics to students in the context of case-like situations that relate to key material.
• An emphasis on procedures (i.e., steps required to use IS) illustrates how they can be the key to improving or (when poorly understood) limiting a process.
• SAP Tutorials help students grasp SAP-supported business processes and learn SAP keystrokes. Easily incorporated in class, these turnkey exercises offer instructor support materials and multiple-choice quizzes.
• A collaboration exercise in each chapter provides meaningful group work that can be completed using the latest technologies that empower remote collaborations.
• Question-based pedagogy helps students focus their learning around key questions in every chapter.

About our authors

Earl McKinney Jr. has had a passion for teaching the introduction to MIS course for 20 years. He first caught the bug at his alma mater, the US Air Force Academy, and has continued his addiction during his tenure at Bowling Green State University. While teaching that class and other undergraduate and graduate classes, Earl has also introduced a half dozen new courses on security, social media, ERP, and information. He has been awarded a number of department and college teaching awards by students and fellow faculty. His interest in the broader context of the business curriculum is reflected in several of his publications and by the Decision Science Institute’s National Instructional Innovation Award.

Earl’s research in e-commerce, small team communication during a crisis, and theoretical work on the notion of information has been published in Behavior and Information Technology, Human Factors, Information and Management, European Journal of IS, and MIS Quarterly. He consults with James Hall, the former head of the NTSB for British Petroleum, the US Forest Service, and several Air Force agencies on human factors and aviation communication issues. He recently was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and study ambiguity in analytics at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences in Austria. He holds an undergraduate economics degree from the Air Force Academy, a Master’s of Engineering from Cornell University, and a PhD in MIS from the University of Texas. A former Air Force fighter pilot, Earl lives in Bowling Green with his wife and has two grown sons.

David Kroenke has many years of teaching experience at Colorado State University, Seattle University, and the University of Washington. He has led dozens of seminars for college professors on the teaching of information systems and technology; in 1991 the International Association of Information Systems named him Computer Educator of the Year. In 2009, David was named Educator of the Year by the Association of Information Technology Professionals-Education Special Interest Group (AITP-EDSIG). David worked for the U.S. Air Force and Boeing Computer Services. He was a principal in the start-up of three companies. He also was vice president of product marketing and development for the Microrim Corporation and was chief of technologies for the database division of Wall Data, Inc. He is the father of the semantic object data model. David’s consulting clients have included IBM, Microsoft, and Computer Sciences Corporations, as well as numerous smaller companies. Recently, David has focused on using information systems for collaboration in education and industry. His text Database Processing was first published in 1977 and is now in its 13th Edition. He has published many other textbooks, including Database Concepts, 6th Edition (2013), Using MIS, 7th Edition (2015), Experiencing MIS, 5th Edition (2015), MIS Essentials, 4th Edition (2015), SharePoint for Students (2012), and Office 365 in Business (2012). David lives on Whidbey Island, Washington. He has two children and three grandchildren.

For introductory courses in Management Information Systems

 

A process focus that’s engaging, relevant, and easy to teach

Transform your MIS course with Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS – a hands-on, process approach to business. Earl H. McKinney, Jr., and David M. Kroenke show students exactly how businesses use information systems and technology to create competitive strategies, support business processes, and accomplish their goals. Complete with numerous examples of business situations, this book helps students understand what business systems actually are and why they’re so important.

 

In the 3rd Edition, you’ll find a reflection of the current technological landscape, coverage of technologies new to the business scene, and a strong emphasis on security. Its clear and concise presentation, within the process context, makes Processes, Systems, and Information the ideal book for majors and non-majors alike. Non-majors will see the vital role IS plays in supporting their business processes.

Also available with MyLab MIS

MyLab™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. And, with Decision-Making Mini Simulations and Auto-Graded Excel and Access Projects, students learn how MIS concepts will help them succeed in their future careers. 

 

Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab MIS does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab MIS, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab MIS, search for:

 

0134854446 / 9780134854441 MyLab MIS with Pearson eText for Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS — Access Card Package, 3/e

 

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