Information Technology for Management : Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy

By Ephraim McLean, Efraim Turban, James C. Wetherbe, et al.

Book Overview

Thoroughly Updated Sixth Edition Social networks are transforming how people communicate, work, and play. This comprehensive new edition highlights this new technology and scores of others that are changing how organizations operate and compete in the current global environment. The cover depicts two examples of social network. The larger image is a visualization of the trust relationships in a web-based social network. The smaller figures are default avatars from Second Life, a multi-layered, 3D virtual world that is imagined, created, and owned by its residents. See chapter 4 for more information on social networks. For more information on Second Life, visit second life.com or see Second Life: the Official Guide by Rymaszewski et al. at www. sybex.com/go/secondlife For more information on the trust network, visit trust.mindswap.org

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471787124
• ISBN13: 9780471787129
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 10.1"

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Good conceptual and broad scope

Great book, however edition which I bought lacks some most modern technologies and concepts emerged in the IT and business.

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One of the best textbook!

This is one of the best book in IT Management (for upper level undergraduage or graduate level course). I have found that the book has been very updated in the pace of the current trend, and is providing one of the best and balanced treatment (for very broad field, but with fairly in-depth coverages in each critical area of IS and IT management) with the solid managerial and profound organizational groundwork. Some of the chapters that I enjoy reading is Ch.3 (Strategic Information Systems), Ch.4 (Business Process Reengineering and Information Technology), Ch.6 (Electronic Commerce), and especially Ch.12 and Ch.13 (Planning for Information Technology and Systems, Information Technology Economics) for Managing IT. My appraisal about this book is its well-balanced and insightful critiques (to rescue and enpower many of the simple and naive, or stubborn, from many of the crafty propaganda, illustions and deceptions of today's "rise-and-die-quick" empty promises and sales pictchs in this field). This is one of the main reason that I have adopted this book for my students.