MIS Cases : Decision Making with Application Software

Designed to demonstrate how software can support managerial decision-making activities, this casebook features 31 cases that cover functional areas of the firm, are spread across three difficulty levels—basic, intermediate, and advanced—and give users hands-on practice in applying spreadsheet, database, Web-page development, and/or presentation graphics software, often in an integrated manner. The cases present common managerial issues and problems and encourage readers to actually use their models to make decisions for the case's characters. Tutorials on Spreadsheet Development, Database Development, and Web Page Development. Basic-Level, Intermediate-Level, and Advanced-Level Spreadsheet Cases. Basic-Level, Intermediate-Level, and Advanced-Level Database Cases. Web-Page Cases. For managers in all functional areas of a firm.

Prepare to make management level decisions with the most complete and interactive Management Information Systems casebook on the market?

This casebook contains 20 cases rated on a 1-5 level of difficulty. The reader will he required to use spreadsheets, databases and web page development tools to find solutions to the problems in the cases.

Many cases will ask the reader to prepare written and oral presentations of their solutions, just as if the reader was making these decisions-at an actual firm.

A perfect complement to any of Prentice Hall's best-selling Management Information Systems texts:

Alter, Information Systems: Foundations of E-Business, 4/e
Gupta, Information Systems: Success in the 21st Century
Jessup & Valacich, Information Systems Today
Laudon & Laudon, Essentials o f Management Information Systems 5/e
Laudon & Laudon, Essentials o f Management Information Systems 7/e
McLeod & Schell, Management Information Systems 8/e
Nickerson, Bushtcss Information Systems 2/e