Managing and Using Information Systems : A Strategic Approach, Keri E. Pearlson and Carol S. Saunders, John Wiley & Sons, 2003
Information is a crucial asset that deserves to be managed like any other valuable asset. Information is not any kind of asset though. For instance sharing relevant information is more easily said than done. Moreover information cannot flow seamlessly without the support of dedicated technologies.
This book takes with success the challenge of walking the reader through the modern use of information systems in corporations.
Here is what Professor Robert Lawton from Western Illinois University has to say about the book (drawn from his review on Amazon):
"My colleagues and I have found that most MIS books focus more on the components of information systems or on their strategic use - and they miss the middle (management) ground entirely. "Managing and Using IS" covers the basics only in brief. It then devotes itself to key, mid-level, management issues most important for understanding the IS organization, its components, and associated issues. This book goes into greater detail than other MIS books.
This is a basic book and quite an asset to students struggling to learn about IS organizations and their management...this book will not disappoint."
About the authors:
Keri Pearlson, DBA, is the founder and CEO of the Zero Time Institute and Founding Partner of KP Partners. She served as a faculty member in the well-known Information Management Program at the University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Business. Dr. Pearlson has worked with executives at many e-business startups and with managers at several Fortune 500 companies, including 3M, General Motors, FedEx, AT&T, Dell, and Cisco.
Dr Pearlson has been promoting the Zero-Time concept. To get more familiar with the concept here are a zerotime-white_paper.pdf and a Dell_case_study.pdf .
Carol S. Saunders is a Professor of MIS at the University of Central Florida and a former WP Wood Professor of MIS at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK. She earned a Ph.D. in management at the University of Houston. Her current research interests include electronic commerce, the impact of information systems on power and communication, virtual teams, and interorganizational linkages. She served as General Conference Chair of ICIS’99 and Telecommuting ’96, is an associate editor of MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences Journal, and Information Resources Management Journal, and has joined the
editorial review board of Information Systems Research.
Here is a recent research published by Professor Saunders on Effective Practices for IT Skills Staffing: IT-staffing.pdf
More on the same topic in Cyberlibris:
Advances in Economics of Information Systems, Kerem Tomak, Idea Group Publishing, 2004
Le système d'information, nouvel outil de stratégie, André Deyrieux, Maxima, 2003
Les grands projets de systèmes d'information dans les établissements financiers, Michel Lafitte, Editions Revue Banque, 2003
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