The Ninth Edition of Management Information Systems for the Information Age provides you the ultimate in flexibility to tailor content to the exact needs for your MIS or IT course. The nine chapters and thirteen Extended Learning Modules may be presented in logical sequence, or you may choose your own mix of technical topics and business/managerial topics.

Chapters cover what instructors want students to know about MIS while Extended Learning Modules (XLMs) show students what they can do with MIS. A contemporary writing style and a wealth of examples engage students in the content. Arranged with chapter opening cases that highlight how an organization has successfully implemented many of the chapter's concepts and chapter closing cases that help students apply what they just learned gives students the hands-on knowledge that is applicable in both their personal and professional experiences.

Chapter One
The Information Age in Which You Live: Changing the Face of Business

Chapter Two
Major Business Initiatives: Gaining Competitive Advantage with IT

Chapter Three
Databases and Data Warehouse: Supporting the Analytics Driven Organization

Chapter Four
Analytics Decision, and Artificial Intelligence: Brainpower for Your Business

Chapter Five
Electronic Commerce: Strategies for the New Economy

Chapter Six
Systems Development: Phases, Tools, and Techniques

Chapter Seven
Cloud Computing, Metrics, and Business Continuity Planning: Building and Sustaining the Dynamic Enterprise

Chapter Eight
Protecting People and Information: Threats and Safeguards

Chapter Nine
Emerging Trends and Technologies: Business, People, and Technology Tomorrow

Projects
Group Projects Electronic Commerce Projects

Extended Learning Module A
Computer Hardware and Software

Extended Learning Module B
The World Wide Web and Internet

Extended Learning Module C
Designing Databases and Entity-Relationship Diagramming

Extended Learning Module D
(Office 2010 Version) Decision Analysis with Spreadsheet Software

Extended Learning Module E
Network Basics

Extended Learning Module F
Building a Web page with HTML

Extended Learning Module G
Object-Oriented Technologies

Extended Learning Module H
Computer Crime and Digital Forensics

Extended Learning Module I
Building an E-Portfolio

Extended Learning Module J
(Office 2010 Version) Implementing a Database with Microsoft Access

Extended Learning Module K
Careers in Business

Extended Learning Module L
Building Web Sites with FrontPage

Extended Learning Module M
Programming in Excel with VBA