Information Systems Management in Practice, Sixth Edition,   ISBN:9780131011397

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We used this book for an MBA course meant to help the average manager make IT decisions. Although parts of the book were interesting, the professor and nearly all of the students in the class did not like the book. Several chapters can be eliminated without missing anything. Organization is poor. Information is redundant. Perhaps if this were an online text it would allow for more real time updating of content to make it more interesting. No color images are used but yet it is still very expensive. Figures are not interesting. This text could be improved for use in an MBA introductory course by cutting out 25-50% of the material and making it much more readable to the non IT expert.

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I purchased this book because it was an assigned textbook in an IT management class I took. The professor indicated that she selected it based on the advice of others, but admitted after classes began that she would not be using it again. Before continuing, I should point out that I don't have an IT background, nor am I pursuing an IT degree. The class for which this book was assigned was an introductory course. People with broader backgrounds in IT might get more out of this than I did.

I confess I didn't read the entire book. This was due to the fact that I found the first 100 pages to be more or less incomprehensible. It's as though the authors wrote down everything they could think of without bothering to organize it, filter it, or consider whether it was relevant or sensible.

A good portion of this book is filled with summaries of other people's ideas (I know that because many of the paragraphs begin with "So-and-so says...") and a ton of cited business graphics that contain a whole lot of lines, boxes, arrows, and circles, but convey very little readily meaningful information. I'll bet if I drew a chart that plotted the relationship between bacon prices, CPU speed, and corresponding possibility of global conquest by the color orange, the authors would jump at the opportunity to include it in the next edition. At one point, the authors attempt to compare the various stages of technology adoption to a camel. I see, so technology adoption = a camel?

Save yourself some misery and avoid this book. I just wish I could give it negative stars.