TY - BOOK AU - Post,Gerald V. AU - Anderson,David L. TI - Management information systems SN - 9780072489422 U1 - 658.4038011 PY - 2003/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - Management information systems N1 - Includes Glossary & Index; Business operations -- Introduction -- Information technology foundations -- Network telecommunications -- Security, privacy, and anonymity -- Transactions and electronic commerce -- Business integration -- Database management -- Integration of information -- Decisions and analysis -- Models and decision support -- Complex decisions and expert systems -- Strategic analysis -- Organizing businesses and systems -- Electronic business and entrepreneurship -- Systems development -- Organizing information system resources -- Information management and society N2 - This text focuses on how managers can apply knowledge of IT tools to solve management problems and find opportunities to improve their organizations. It addresses these challenges and illustrates how information technology supports managers in their operational and decision-making task each day ER -