The Importance of IS Management

Prentice Hall, Inc.

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The Technology Environment

nCommunications Trends

–Public and private (intra-company)

–Telecom as an integral component of IS management

–Communications-based information systems link organizations to their suppliers and customers

–Strategic advantage

–Enabler for distributing computing

–Shifted mainframe-centered computing to network-centric computing


	nCommunications Trends
		–Public & Private (intra-company)
		–Telecom as an integral component of IS management
		–Communications-based information systems link organizations to their suppliers and customers.
		–Strategic advantage
		–Enabler for distributing computing
		–Shifted centered-computing to network-centric computing