Information Systems

Written from a managerial perspective, this text emphasizes how users can understand and analyze systems and evaluate the positive and negative effects of those systems, the role of information technology in business, and its extensive learning tools. This book will help the reader become an effective business professional who will use, participate in, and manage systems.

Steven Alter is Professor of Information Systems at the University of San Francisco. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Management Science, both from MIT. While on the faculty of the University of Southern California, he revised his Ph.D. theses and published it as Decision Support Systems: Current Practice and Continuing Challenges, one of the first books on this important type of information system. Professor Alter's journal articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, TIMS Studies in Management Sciences, Interfaces, Data Processing, Futures, and The Futurist. Prior to joining the University of San Francisco, he served for eight years as a founding vice president of Consilium, Inc. (CSIM on the NASDAQ stock exchange).