Using MIS 6th Edition by David M. Kroenke

Using MIS 6th Edition by David M. Kroenke shows how businesses use information systems and technology to accomplish their goals, objectives, and competitive strategy. Directed primarily toward undergraduate CIS/MIS college/university majors, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals.

With a new edition now publishing each year, this book contains fresh, new, and current material to help keep your students up to date. Three Guides per chapter – one each on ethics, security, and timely topics – foster thought, discussion, and active participation by concentrating on current issues in information systems. These amplify the chapter’s core material and help students strengthen their problem-solving skills to become better business professionals.

Chapter Opening cases demonstrate how information is relevant in the real world and include: GearUp (Chapters 1-6), a fictional start-up selling discontinued sporting goods and last year’s seasonal items at rock-bottom prices, but facing operational issues, PRIDE (Chapters 7-12), a Performance Recording, Integration, Delivery, and Evaluation system, that uses cloud technology and a wide array of mobile devices to integrate patient exercise data with health care providers, health clubs, insurance agencies, and employers.

In each chapter, one of the guides addresses ethical aspects of the use of the chapter’s content. The other two guides pertain to security, problem solving, managing contrarian employees (“opposing forces”), and reflecting on the implications of the chapter’s content on industry or society.

At the beginning of each chapter, students are presented with a list of questions to help them focus on the most important issues within the reading. Then to organize the material, each major heading in the chapter is one of the questions listed at the chapter’s start. The Active Review feature, which is found at the end of the chapter, provides students with a set of actions to take to demonstrate their mastery.

Each chapter concludes with a discussion of how the concepts, technology, and systems described might change by the year 2021. This feature helps students anticipate changes in technology and understand how those changes may impact the future business environment. Application exercises for Excel and Access 2010 appear throughout this text.

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