TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alter, Steven.
TI  - Information systems: a management perspective.
SN  - 0805324305
AV  - T58.6.A44 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - The benjamin/Cummings publishing company, Inc.
N1  - Includes index; Contents: Basic ideas for understanding information systems: System-related challenges for business professionals -- Framework and method for analyzing systems in business terms -- Describing and evaluating business processes -- Information and databases -- Applications and impacts of information systems: Types of information systems: Different ways to support communication and decision making -- Increasing efficiency and effectiveness of internal operations -- Helping firms compete through selling, pricing, and product differentiation -- Human and ethical issues -- Understanding the role of information technology: Computer hardware -- Software and programming -- Telecommunications and networks -- Steps towards computer intelligence: Making systems "Smarter" -- Planning, Building, and managing information systems: Information system planning -- Methods for building information systems -- Information system security and control
ER  -