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M: Information Systems by Paige Baltzan

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Baltzan; M: Information Systems is an MIS fundamentals text written in an engaging visual, magazine format designed to intrigue your students from the start. Saturated with fascinating, sometimes hard-to-believe real-life examples, M will keep students intrigued throughout the course. 


Baltzan’s approach discusses various business initiatives first and how technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique writing approach is that business initiatives drive technology choices in a corporation. This approach takes difficult and often intangible MIS concepts, brings them down to a student's level, and applies them using a hands-on approach to reinforce the concepts learned. 


A derivative of the Baltzan; Business Driven Technology text, M: Information Systems provides the foundation that will enable students to achieve excellence in business, whether they major in operations management, manufacturing, sales, marketing, or any business discipline. 

  • Module One BUSINESS DRIVEN MIS
  • CHAPTER 1 Management Information Systems: Business Driven MIS
  • CHAPTER 2 Digital Transformation: Decisions, Processes, and Artificial Intelligence
  • CHAPTER 3 Ebusiness: Electronic Business Value
  • CHAPTER 4 Ethics and Information Security: MIS Business Concerns
  • Module Two TECHNICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MIS
  • CHAPTER 5 Infrastructures and Platforms: Sustainable Technologies
  • CHAPTER 6 Data: Business Intelligence
  • CHAPTER 7 Digital Ecosystems: Connecting Digital Lives, Business, and Society
  • Module Three ENTERPRISE MIS
  • CHAPTER 8 Enterprise Applications: Business Communications
  • CHAPTER 9 Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility
  • Appendixes A–F are available only as online resources
  • APPENDIX A: HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE BASICS
  • APPENDIX B: NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
  • APPENDIX C: DESIGNING DATABASES
  • APPENDIX D: EMERGING TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES
  • APPENDIX E: CONNECTIVITY: THE BUSINESS VALUE OF A NETWORKED WORLD
  • APPENDIX F: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
  • Business Driven Projects are available only as online resources.
  • PROJECT 1: FINANCIAL DESTINY
  • PROJECT 2: CASH FLOW
  • PROJECT 3: TECHNOLOGY BUDGET
  • PROJECT 4: TRACKING DONATIONS
  • PROJECT 5: CONVERT CURRENCY
  • PROJECT 6: COST COMPARISON
  • PROJECT 7: TIME MANAGEMENT
  • PROJECT 8: MAXIMIZE PROFIT
  • PROJECT 9: SECURITY ANALYSIS
  • PROJECT 10: GATHERING DATA
  • PROJECT 11: SCANNER SYSTEM
  • PROJECT 12: COMPETITIVE PRICING
  • PROJECT 13: ADEQUATE ACQUISITIONS
  • PROJECT 14: CUSTOMER RELATIONS
  • PROJECT 15: ASSESSING THE VALUE OF INFORMATION
  • PROJECT 16: GROWTH, TRENDS, AND FORECASTS
  • PROJECT 17: SHIPPING COSTS
  • PROJECT 18: FORMATTING GRADES
  • PROJECT 19: MOVING DILEMMA
  • PROJECT 20: OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES
  • PROJECT 21: TOO MUCH INFORMATION
  • PROJECT 22: TURNOVER RATES
  • PROJECT 23: VITAL INFORMATION
  • PROJECT 24: BREAKING EVEN
  • PROJECT 25: PROFIT SCENARIO
  • PROJECT 26: ELECTRONIC RÉSUMÉS
  • PROJECT 27: GATHERING FEEDBACK
  • PROJECT 28: DAILY INVOICE
  • PROJECT 29: BILLING DATA
  • PROJECT 30: INVENTORY DATA
  • PROJECT 31: CALL CENTER
  • PROJECT 32: SALES PIPELINE
  • PROJECT 33: ONLINE CLASSIFIED ADS

About the Author

Paige Baltzan

Paige Baltzan is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the department of Business Information and Analytics at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. She holds a BSBA specializing in Accounting/MIS from Bowling Green State University and an MBA specializing in MIS from the University of Denver. She is a coauthor of several books, including Business Driven Information Systems, Essentials of Business Driven Information Systems, and I-Series, and is a contributor to Management Information Systems for the Information Age. 

Before joining the Daniels College faculty in 1999, Paige spent several years working for a large telecommunications company and an international consulting firm where she participated in client engagements in the United States as well as South America and Europe. Paige lives in Lakewood, Colorado, with her husband, Tony, and daughters, Hannah and Sophie.

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