Table of Contents

Unit 1:
Chapter 1: Business Driven Technology
Chapter 2: Identifying Competitive Advantages
Chapter 3: Strategic Initiatives for Implementing Competitive Advantages
Chapter 4: Measuring the Success of Strategic Initiatives
Chapter 5: Organizational Structures that Support Strategic Initiatives

Unit 2:
Chapter 6: Valuing Organizational Information
Chapter 7: Storing Organizational Information - Databases
Chapter 8: Accessing Organizational Information - Data WarehouseUnit 3:
Chapter 9: Enabling the Organization - Decision Making
Chapter 10: Extending the Organization - Supply Chain Management
Chapter 11: Building a Customer-Centric Organization - Customer Relationship Management
Chapter 12: Integrating the Organization from End-to-End - Enterprise Resource PlanningUnit 4:
Chapter 13: Creating Innovative Organizations
Chapter 14: E-Business
Chapter 15: Creating Collaborative Partnerships
Chapter 16: Integrating Wireless Technology in BusinessUnit 5:
Chapter 17: Building Software to Support an Agile Organization
Chapter 18: Managing Organizational Projects
Chapter 19: Outsourcing in the 21st Century
Chapter 20: Developing a 21st Century OrganizationBusiness Plug-Ins:
B1 Business Basics
B2 Business Process
B3 Hardware and Software
B4 Enterprise Architectures
B5 Networks and Telecommunications
B6 Information Security
B7 Ethics
B8 Supply Chain Management
B9 Customer Relationship Management
B10 Enterprise Resource Management
B11 E-Business
B12 Global Trends
B13 Strategic Outsourcing
B14 Systems Development
B15 Project Management
B16 Operations Management
B17 Organizational Architecture Trends
B18 Business Intelligence
B19 global Information Systems
B20 Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Networking, and Virtual Worlds
B21 Mobile TechnologyTechnical Plug-Ins:
T1 Personal Productivity Using IT (OLC only)
T2 Basic Skills Using Excel (OLC only)
T3 Problem Solving Using Excel (OLC only)
T4 Decision Making Using Excel (OLC only)
T5 Designing Database Applications (OLC only)
T6 Basic Skills Using Access (OLC only)
T7 Problem Solving Using Access (OLC only)
T8 Decision Making Using Access (OLC only)
T9 Designing Web Pages (OLC only)
T10 Creating Web Pages Using HTML (OLC only)
T11 Creating Web Pages Using Dreamweaver (OLC only)
T12 Creating Gantt Charts with Excel and Microsoft Project (OLC only)

About the Author

Paige Baltzan teaches in the Department of Information Technology and Electronic Commerce at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. She holds a B.S.B.A. specializing in Accounting/MIS from Bowling Green State University and an M.B.A. specializing in MIS from the University of Denver. Paige also teaches online at Strayer University. She is the coauthor of several books, including Business Driven Technology, Essentials of Business Driven Information Systems, I-Series, and 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. Amy Philips is Professor of Information Systems at Pittsburgh State University. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science and an M.B.A from Pittsburg State and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published in various journals including the Journal of Global Information Management and the Journal of Computer Information Systems. She serves on various editorial boards and is a coauthor of Case Studies in Information Technology and the concepts books of the I-Series, entitled Computing Concepts. Maeve has been teaching for 20 years and lives in Pittsburg, Kansas, with her husband, Slim.