Business Information Systems

Paul Beynon-Davies

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781352007381
• eBook ISBN: 9781350304697
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Intelligence
• Index: Business

This textbook offers students a systematic guide to how information systems underpin organisational activity in today's global information society, covering everything from ICT infrastructure and the digital environment to electronic marketing, mobile commerce and design thinking. While academically rigorous and underpinned by the author's deep knowledge of the subject, an engaging writing style combined with extensive pedagogical features, cases and innovative examples from around the world ensure that the text remains accessible to those approaching the topic for the first time. Taking an approach that views businesses as complex systems, the book illustrates how valuable systems thinking can be in our everyday working lives, while theoretical ideas are always supported by examples of their application in the real world. This text is the ideal course companion for all students studying business information systems or management information systems modules at undergraduate, postgraduate or MBA level. New to this Edition:
- New coverage of key contemporary topics, including big data, analytics, cloud computing, the internet of things, blockchain and bitcoin, green IS, ethics, and cyber security.
- Brand new chapters on Mobile Commerce and Social Media, and Designing Digital Organisation (design thinking).
- A revised concluding chapter considering contemporary technological trends, as well as reflections and predictions for future innovations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Short Contents
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of case studies
• About the author
• Message to students
• Message to lecturers
• Employability and information systems
• About the book
• Tour of the book
• Careers videos
• Guide to the website
• Chapter 1 Introduction: the domain of business information systems
• Chapter 2 Systems of organisation
• Chapter 3 Data and information
• Chapter 4 The infrastructure of organisation
• Chapter 5 ICT infrastructure
• Chapter 6 The digital environment
• Chapter 7 Digital business
• Chapter 8 Electronic marketing, procurement and government
• Chapter 9 Mobile commerce, social media and disruptive innovation
• Chapter 10 Designing digital organisation
• Chapter 11 Digital innovation and digital strategy
• Chapter 12 Developing, managing and operating digital infrastructure
• Chapter 13 The changing nature of digital infrastructure
• Case studies
• Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index