Lesson Notes

Lesson 1
Foundations of Information Systems in Business

An understanding of the effective and responsible use and management of information systems is important for managers and other business knowledge workers in today’s global information society...

Lesson 7
Electronic Business Systems
Electronic Commerce Systems

Purpose of this lesson is to describe how information systems support the business functions of marketing, manufacturing, human resource management...

Lesson 2
Computer Hardware

All computers are systems of input, processing, output, storage, and control components. Technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and new forms of input, output, processing, and storage ...

Lesson 8
Database Resource Management

Data is a vital organizational resource, which needs to be managed like other important business assets. Most organizations could not survive or succeed without quality data about their internal operations...

Lesson 3
Computer Software

This chapter presents an overview of the major types of software you depend on as you work with computers and access computer networks. It discusses their characteristics and purposes...

Lesson 9
E-Business Decision Support
Developing E-Business Strategies

To succeed in E-business and E-commerce, companies need information systems that can support the diverse information and decision-making...

Lesson 4
Telecommunications and Networks
 

Businesses are becoming internetworked enterprises. The Internet and Internet-like networks inside the enterprise (Intranets), between an enterprise and its trading partners (Extranets)...

Lesson 10
Developing E-Business Solution
 

This chapter presents a generic systems approach to problem solving. It deals with how organizations can develop systematic ways to problem solving. This process is known as the systems approach

Lesson 5
The Internet, Intranets, and Extranets in Business
 

Businesses have become internetworked E-business enterprises. The Internet, Intranets, Extranets, and other types of networks are now the primary information technology infrastructure of many organizations.
 

Lesson 11
Enterprise and Global Management of E-Business Technology

There is a real need for business managers and professionals to understand and know how to manage information systems and technology in an organization. Information technology affects managers ...

Lesson 6
Competing with IT

Information systems must be viewed as more than a set of technologies that support efficient business operations, workgroup and enterprise collaboration...

Lesson 12
Security and Ethical Challenges of E-Business

There is no question that the use of information technology in E-business operations presents major security challenges, poses serious ethical questions, and affects society in significant ways...