Course Coverage 7th Edition

(This is indicative and minimum content which provides foundation only, please read entire book
for in-depth study)

No Topic From To
1.2 Doing Business in the Digital Economy, Business Pressures, Organizational 4 18
Responses, and IT Support;
1.1 Information Systems: Concepts and Definitions; 18 28
1.1 Information Systems: Concepts and Definitions; 41 42
1.4 Types of Information Systems, Examples of Information systems, 42 55
1.5 Managing Information Resources; 67 69
3.3 Managing Data; The Database Approach; Database Management Systems; 79 102
Data Warehousing; Data Visualization;
2.1 Network Computing – An Overview; 115 132
2.2 Discovery, Communication, Collaboration; 133 143
3.4 Threats to Information Security; Protecting Information Resources. 155 176
2.3 Overview of E-Business and E-Commerce, Electronic Payments; 199 230
1.3 Ethics, Privacy, and Information Security - Ethical Issues; 231 232
2.4 Ethical and Legal Issues in E- Business; 231 232
2.7 Wireless Technologies; Wireless Computer Networks and Internet Access; 244 278
Mobile Computing and Mobile Commerce; Pervasive Computing; Wireless
Security.
3.1 Organizational Information Systems - Transaction Processing Systems, 331 358
Functional Information Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning Systems,
Customer Relationship Management;
2.5 Supply Chain Management Systems; 369 379
3.2 Knowledge Management; 392 398
4.2 Enterprise and Executive Decision Support Systems; Intelligent Systems. 448 465
4.1 Managerial Support Systems - Managers and Decision Making; Decision 466 476
Support Systems;
1.6 Competitive Advantage and Strategic Information Systems. 488 511
4.3 Acquiring IT Applications - Planning for and Justifying IT Applications; 498 506
Strategies for Acquiring IT Applications; The Traditional Systems 592 606
Development Life Cycle; Alternative Methods and Tools for Systems
Development; Outsourcing and Application Service Providers; Vendor and
Software Selection.
2.6 Electronic Data Interchange and Extranets;