Information Systems: A Management Perspective (3rd Edition)

A true understanding of information systems requires more than memorizing hundreds of technical buzzwords. The third edition of Professor Steven Alter's highly successful Information Systems goes beyond the buzzwords by using a practical, widely applicable approach for analyzing systems from a business professional's viewpoint. The work-centered analysis (WCA) method is integrated throughout the book, providing a unifying vision for the material. The text also comes to life through examples within the chapters, true-to-life cases that open and close the chapters, and a Web site (http://hepg.awl.com keyword: Alter)that provides additional cases.

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).