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Achieve a higher return on your investment in IS
When a business devotes resources to its information systems, it expects a positive return on its investment. So should you.
You are about to invest your own time and effort in your Information Systems Course. With Huber, Piercy, and McKeown's Information Systems: Creating Business Value, you can expect to be prepared to succeed in the modern business world. This book shows you the value of investing in IS for your career and for today's organizations.
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Mark W. Huber is Lecturer in Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business, Director of the Terry College and Franklin College of Arts and Science Leadership Excellence and Development Program (L.E.A.D.), and a member of the UGA Teaching Academy. He has a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia. He began his faculty career at UGA in 1999 and prior to that was on the faculty at Wake Forest University and East Carolina University. During the past six years he has won nine teaching awards including recognition as Outstanding Faculty at UGA Honors Day, a Terry College Regent's Professor Award Nominee, Outstanding MIS Faculty, a Student Government Outstanding Professor Award, Alpha Kappa Psi (Professional Business Society) Outstanding Management Information Systems Teacher of the Year Award, and three UGAA Career Center Student Development Awards. Dr. Huber recently completed a 21-year Air Force career that included the creation and command of a Combat Communications Squadron and the management and development of strategic information systems projects at the Pentagon. His research interests include group support systems and team and group development. His research interests include group support systems and team and group development. His papers have been published in the International Journal of-e-Collaboration, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, and Communications of the Association for Information Systems. In addition to this textbook, he has co-authored a lab manual published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2006. Away from school, he had his wife Lisa enjoy hiking, kayaking, and bicycling.
Craig A. Piercy has been teaching large numbers of students in Introduction to Information Systems, Computer Programming, and Web Development classes at the University of Georgia since 2000. Previously, Dr. Piercy taught similar courses at Towson University. He received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at Tennessee Tech, and he received his MBA and Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Georgia. As an engineer and later as an academic, Dr. Piercy has long been interest in information technology and how it can be used to solve problems and improve our lives. In addition to this book, he was the co-author of Learning to Program with VB6, 2nd edition, and he has co-author5ed a lab manual published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2006. His primary area of research is in developing algorithms to support decision making. In particular, Dr. Piercy has recently been named as the Director for the Mastered of Internet Technology program at the University of Georgia. When not teaching or writing, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Estelle, and his son, Nicolas.
Patrick G. McKeown is Professor Emeritus of Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Until his retirement in 2003, he was the founding head of that department. He was on the faculty at the University of Georgia for 27 years. Before that, he taught at the State University of New York at Albany for three years and was an adjunct faculty member at New York University. he has a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published close to 50 articles in the areas of management science and information systems and has also written more than 30 textbooks in these areas. He is a Fellow of the text and Academic Authors Association, only one of 15 such honorees out of an organization of over 1,000 textbook authors. In addition, in 2003, he was given the Lifetime Service Award by the UGA MIS Alumni Association and had a student scholarship created in his name by the UGA MIS Department. he is also a member of University of Georgia Teaching Academy. Dr. McKeown was a Fulbright Scholar in Portugal in 1998 at the Catholic University of Portugal and has taught internationally at universities in France, Finland, South Africa, and New Zealand. He is married to his wife of 39 years, Carolyn, the father of two grown children, and the grandfather of Keegan and Katie Jane. He splits his time between Fort Myers Beach, FL and Athens, GA.
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Achieve a higher return on your investment in IS
When a business devotes resources to its information systems, it expects a positive return on its investment. So should you.
You are about to invest your own time and effort in your Information Systems Course. With Huber, Piercy, and McKeown's Information Systems: Creating Business Value, you can expect to be prepared to succeed in the modern business world. This book shows you the value of investing in IS for your career and for today's organizations.
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