Offers an understanding of statistical concepts and problems to help learning. This book presents the uses of technology in business statistics. Meant for students and instructors, it includes Excel and other software applications.

"Automated decisions systems are probably already being used in your industry, and they will undoubtedly grow in importance. If your business needs to make quick, accurate decisions on an industrialized scale, you need to read this book." Thomas H. Davenport, Professor, Babson College, Author of Competing on Analytics The computer-based systems most organizations rely on to support their ...

Suitable for the advancing technology professionals who look to move up into a supervisory role, and for newly-promoted IT managers who need to quickly understand their positions, this handbook uses IT-related examples to discuss business topics and recognizes the demands of IT as well as how these demands impact those who work in the field.

Part of the Schaum's Easy Outline series, this title includes graphic elements like sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights that feature selected points from the text, emphasizing keys to learning and giving students quick pointers to the essentials.

Aims to make sense of IS and to establish that IS is not the same as IT. The text develops a coherent and defensible concept of IS which matches real-world practice.

'Global Business Information Technology: Systems Theory and Practice' describes how technology is being used to gather, interpret and communicate business information at an ever more sophisticated level. Case examples, 'did you know' and 'activity' features helps the student see the theory in practice.

Quantitative Methods is a comprehensive guide to the techniques any student of business or finance is likely to need. The authors' coaching, learning-by-doing approach, coupled with the text's clear structural outline makes essential mathematical skills far less daunting.

For courses in Mathematics for Business and Mathematical Methods in Business. This classic text continues to provide a mathematical foundation for students in business, economics, and the life and social sciences. Abundant applications cover such diverse areas as business, economics, biology, medicine, sociology, psychology, ecology, statistics, earth science, and archaeology. Its depth and ...

Business-driven Information Systems

Incorporates parallel development in quantum theory, self-organizing systems and complexity theory. This book features the synthesis of holistic thinking, operational thinking, sociocultural systems, and interactive design.

Educates the reader on the tremendous impact ethical issues play in the successful use of information technology, and provides abundant current examples from actual companies demonstrating the ethical issues that businesses face.

The ERP implementation cycle is characterized by complexity, uncertainty and a long time-scale. It is about people and issues that affect the business - it is a multi-disciplinary effort. This book offers information that you need in relation to the many issues and events within the implementation cycle.

This volume presents documented case studies that provide a sense of the challenges and complexities involved in developing strategic information systems in a European context. It links the lessons learned to theories that should guide future systems development efforts.

For graduate and undergraduate courses in IT management and IT strategy. The authors utilize their years of working with companies on IT management / strategy to provide students with a practical look at the evolution of IT in business.

Information for Management Control.

Discusses issues relating to accessing information and assessing it for credibility and 'fitness-for-purpose'. This title offers tools and techniques for the optimal processing of information and sections on sources of information, sorting the wheat from the chaff, using the Internet for research, and achieving recognition for work done.

Suitable for students and managers who desire an overview of contemporary information systems technology management, this title examines how information technology (IT) enables organizations to conduct business in radically different and more effective ways.

Presents the many issues associated with culture in the management of information systems. This book includes a range of articles from experts in North America and Europe that represent a variety of different national and cultural environments.

IT departments are integral parts of businesses; if the electronic components like e-commerce sites fail, the business will come to a screeching halt. This book introduces the Market Driven Management approach, which applies and adapts some of the best for-profit business thinking for use by CIOs and IT managers.