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Managing Information Systems Textbooks: Assessing their Orientation toward Potential General Managers
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This paper is an assessment of the topical coverage of current Managing Information Systems
(MIS) textbooks. The MIS course is normally required of all undergraduate and graduate business
majors, and therefore is their primary education in the use of IS/IT in the modern technologyoriented
organization. However, the MIS textbooks researched do not attempt IS/IT management
fluency. They do not even fully answer the questions normally asked by management and users
during the justification and implementation of modern technology-oriented enterprise applications.
The primary author has been teaching IS/IT courses for IS professionals and for users and managers
for almost fifty tears. What has changed since that time? Not as much as should have happened
in the education of line and staff personnel who work in organizations with critically important
IS/IT enterprise applications. Early courses for users and managers were remarkably similar
to our current MIS courses. This paper, therefore, suggests a significant change in content of
MIS texts from primarily encompassing technology sections covering personal productivity applications,
systems development methods, and infrastructure to presenting much more detail on
user and management topics including modern enterprise level applications (e.g. transaction
processing systems), privacy and security, feasibility studies, and the justification of IS/IT systems.
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Managing Information Systems Textbooks: Assessing their Orientation toward Potential General Managers
Information Technology
English
2009
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