Corporate Information Strategy and Management Text and Cases

Overview

Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases 8/e by Applegate, Austin, and Soule is written for students and managers who desire an overview of contemporary information systems technology management. This new edition examines how information technology (IT) enables organizations to conduct business in radically different and more effective ways. The author’s objective is to provide readers with a better understanding of the influence of twenty-first century technologies on business decisions. The 8th edition discusses today’s challenges from the point of view of the executives who are grappling with them. This text is comprised of an extensive collection of Harvard Business cases devoted to Information Technology.

Call Number:  HD 30.2.A67 2009

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Above the Board How Ethical CEOs Create Honest Corporations

Overview

In recent years, a string of corporate scandals have sent shockwaves throughout the business world, resulting in the fracture of public trust in corporations. Now more than ever, corporate honesty and integrity are directly connected to success and growth. Above the Board provides strategies and methods to help you build a solid foundation of ethical corporate values into your organization.

Inside, you’ll find key advice from CEOs who have put corporate ethics at the forefront. The common message is that business ethics should not be viewed as an “add-on” to a company’s operations; rather, it must be a key element in an overall strategy for success. “Organizations across a range of industries are faced with the challenge of fostering an ethical environment that goes beyond compliance,” the authors write. “Above all, it is the CEOs who are in a position to set the ethical tone and climate of their organization.” Above the Board offers concrete practices, procedures, and personalized approaches used by such companies as Whirlpool, Xerox, Walgreen Co., Texas Instruments, and P&G to help you

• Make integrity a core value for every employee
• Integrate ethics into the heart of your corporate strategy
• Create wide-scale transparency throughout your company
• Harness ethical energy and make ethics messages far reaching
• Build a system of ethics that will remain relevant well into the future

Above the Board provides insight, best practices, and success stories from CEOs who began building upon their corporations’ foundational principles early on, and it sheds light on how these initiatives have benefited shareholders, customers, and other stakeholders alike. This insightful look at the new way of doing business is an invaluable blueprint for nurturing ethics within your company, creating a permanent foundation of fresh corporate values, and putting your company in a solid lead against the competition.

Call Number: HF 5387.5.U6 P67 2009

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The Good Life Rules by Bryan Dodge and Matthew Rudy

Bryan Dodge’s message is spreading from coast to coast–and transforming lives day by day. With 600,000 radio listeners at Dallas’ WBAP–and hundreds of speaking engagements each year, Dodge definitely has something to say. Something that could change your life . . . in 48 hours.

His message is this: the good life is within our reach– once we know how to find it. His simple but powerful lessons show us the way to find more satisfaction at work and at home, how to embrace change, create upward growth, and focus on the things that really matter. These are The Good Life Rules.more

Call Number: BF 637.S8 d63 2009

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Book: Green Business Basics: 24 Lessons For Meeting The Challenges Of Global Warming

by  Nick Dallas

Proven techniques to create a more energy-efficient and profitable enterpriseAs environmental issues become more pressing, businesses must find ways to conserve energy-saving on expenses and improving their bottom line. “Green Business Basics” helps you gain a better understanding on the many “green” topics of our day that can affect their business (such as greenhouse gasses and emission trading). It then goes on to show how you can develop your own green strategy to make the most of your resources and create a more marketable image for your company.

Call Number: QC 981.8.G56 D35 2009

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The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch

The Last Lecture goes beyond the now-famous lecture to inspire us all to live each day of our lives with purpose and joy

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” —Randy Pausch

A lot of professors give talks titled “The Last Lecture.” Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can’t help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—“Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”—wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because “time is all you have…and you may find one day that you have less than you think”). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.