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MIS Cases: Decision Making with Application Software, 2/E
M. Lisa Miller

ISBN-10: 0131454404
ISBN-13:  9780131454408

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2005
Format:  Paper; 208 pp
Published:  03/25/2004


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Appropriate for any course introducing management information systems from a business perspective. This casebook will serve as an ideal complement to most MIS/CIS textbooks.

Designed to demonstrate how software can support managerial decision-making activities, this casebook features 24 cases (more than another casebook currently on the market) covering a wide range of functional areas throughout the business, including finance/accounting, HR, production, and information systems. The cases are spread across three difficulty levels—basic, intermediate, and advanced. They present common managerial issues and problems, and encourage students to actually use their models to make decisions for the cases characters. They require students to apply spreadsheet, database, Web-page development, and/or presentation graphics software, often in an integrated manner. Many of the cases require students to prepare both written and oral presentations on their solutions. Among the topics covered in MIS Cases: Decision Making with Application Software Second Edition: forecasting, inventory decisions, what-if analyses, pricing strategies, billing decisions, and much more.


Features

  • NEW - Second Edition contains four new cases, as well as significant revisions to many others.

    • Reflects the latest trends and business challenges students will face as managers.

  • Web-based tutorials–Texts companion Website includes practical, hands-on tutorials on spreadsheets, databases, and Web page development.

    • Helps students get up-to-speed quickly with the tools they need to prepare the cases in the book–and, of course, to solve real business problems.

  • Cases that address widely varying skill levels and a broad range of business issues–Includes basic, intermediate, and advanced cases covering issues ranging from forecasting and what-if analysis to pricing, billing, and inventory.

    • Gives students at any level of expertise the broad foundation skills they need to analyze business problems with todays application software.

  • Cases from a wide range of business functions–Cases reflect realistic decisions made by human resources, production, accounting, financial, and information systems managers.

    • Helps students clearly understand how information technology relates to the business careers they are interested in pursuing.

  • Realistic managerial decision-making activities–Requires students to make the types of decisions they will face as managers; for example, setting minimum inventory, safety stock, and maximum inventory levels for a product line, and discussing their findings and results in writing.

    • Helps students understand exactly how contemporary software tools are utilized to help solve common business problems and facilitate more effective decision-making.

  • Up-front Skills Check–Clearly identifies the software and skills needed to solve each case.

    • Tells students exactly what they need to know upfront, so they can review any skills they dont already have.

  • Precise lists of case deliverables–Identifies exactly what students should submit to the instructor for grading; for example, written and verbal presentations, electronic working copies, relevant printouts, and end-user or technical documentation.

    • Gives students clear guidance and expectations that can easily be modified by the instructor.


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New To This Edition

  • Second Edition contains four new cases, as well as significant revisions to many others.

    • Reflects the latest trends and business challenges students will face as managers.


Table of Contents

1. Spreadsheets.

 1. Milligan’s Backyard Storage Kits.

 2. Piedmont Trailer Manufacturing Company.

 3. Maxi’s Grocery Mart.

 4. Klein Technology Seminars.

 5. Terrell & Terrell Property Management, Inc.

 6. Mark’s Collectibles, Inc.

 7. Megan Davis Convention Center.

 8. BJR Investments, Inc.

 9. Madison’s Department Store.

10. Baylee Byrd Playsets, Inc.

11. Edmund Grant Pharmaceutical Company.

II. Database.

12. Koko’s Canine Pet Club.

13. Susan's Special Sauces. 

14. Granny Joan's Cookies.

15. Friends in Need.

16. Second Time Around Movies.

17. Tyrone's Arcade Games.

18. Keller Industries.

19. ABC Inc. Health Benefits.

20. Wright Brothers’ Airport Shuttle Service.

21. Healthy Plant and Tree Nursery.

22. Franklin University: Student Scholarship Management.

III. Web Page Development.

23. Mountain View Dental Clinic.

24. Family Veterinary Pet Care Clinic.


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  • MIS Cases: Decision Making wih Application Software, 4/E
    Miller
    ©2009  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 480 pp  |  Instock
    ISBN-10: 0132381052  |  ISBN-13: 9780132381055
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