Contents: Organizational foundations of information systems: The Information systems revolution: Transforming business and management -- The Strategic role of information systems -- Information systems organizations and business processes -- Information management and decision making -- Ethical and social of information systems -- Technical foundations of information systems: Computers and information processing -- Information systems software -- Managing data resources -- Telecommunications and networks -- The Internet: Electronic commerce and electronic business -- Building information systems contemporary approaches: Redesigning the organization with information systems -- Approaches to systems - building -- System success and failure: implementation -- Management and organizational support support systems: Managing knowlege -- Enhancing management desicion making -- Managing contemporary information system: Information systems security and control -- Managing international information systems -- Managing firm infrastructure and enterprise -- International case studies: Appendix A: Business process redesign project.