Manager's Guide to Making Decisions about Information Systems & Decision Technology: Modeling, Software, and Applications Set

Making smart IS investments and using decision technology

The Manager's Guide to Making Decisions About IS helps readers to make smarter decisions about investing in information systems. The importance of the managerial perspective in IS decisions is explored - from upgrades to outsourcing large software systems - in light of how they contribute to business success. Readers learn how information systems are used throughout the business, and they gain essential knowledge to make informed decision about investments in electronic commerce, enterprise needs, business intelligence and other applications. The other book featured in this set, Introduction to Decision Technology: Modeling, Software, and Applications, suits students in a one-semester Management Science, Quantitative Methods, or Operations Research course. The text works for undergraduate and MBA courses where professors are integrating commercial software. The authors use spreadsheets to model concepts, and then progress to using specific tools.