IS2136 Information systems and

Supplement organisations
Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences
September 2012: First supplement to the 2011 edition of the subject
guide

New edition of essential textbook

Since the 2011 edition of the subject guide was first published, a new
addition of the essential textbook has been published:

Old edition New edition

Laudon, K.C. and J.P. Laudon
Management Information Systems &
Multimedia. (Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 2006) ninth edition
[ISBN 9780131538412].
Laudon, K.C. and J.P. Laudon
Management Information Systems:
Managing the Digital Firm. (Harlow:
Pearson Education, 2012) twelfth
edition [ISBN 9780273754596].

Some print copies of the subject guide have been updated to refer to
the 2012 edition of the book, but some refer to the 2006 edition. You
can use either edition of the book, but you may need to amend the
references to it in your copy of the guide. The following tables show
correct references to each edition of the book:
 Chapter 3:
Information and communications technology
Page in subject guide: Reference to 2006 Reference to 2012
edition: edition:
17 Chapters 6–10 and 14 Chapters 5–9 and 13
19, Activity 3.2 Chapter 6 Chapter 5
21 Figure 6.1 Figure 5.1
24, Activity 3.11 Read Chapters 6, 7, 8 Chapters 5, 6, 7 and
and 9 10
28, Activity 3.15 Chapter 8 Chapter 7
Chapter 4:
Developing information systems
Page in subject guide: Reference to 2006 Reference to 2012
edition: edition:
33 Chapters 2, 3, 7, 11, Chapters 2, 3, 6, 9, 13
14 and 16 and 15
34, Activity 4.1 Chapter 12 Chapter 11
34, first margin note Page 497 (Note: this Page 557 (Chapter 14)
has been misprinted
as page 479 in some
copies of the guide)
34, second margin Chapter 14 No BPR in new edition
note – only BP redesign –
page 515
34, third margin note Chapter 14 Chapters 13 and 14
35, Activity 4.5 Chapter 14 Chapters 13 and 14
36, first margin note Section 14.3 Section 13.2
37, first margin note Section 14.3 Page 524
38, first margin note Chapters 2 and 11, Chapters 2 and 9,
particularly Sections particularly pages
2.3 and 11.1 81–85 and Section 9.1
39, first margin note Chapter 14, Section Chapter 13 (pages
14.5 (Note: this has 534–35) and Chapter
been misprinted as 15 Section 15.4
Section 15.5 in some
copies of the guide)
and Chapter 16,
Section 16.4
41 Sections 7.3, 12.1 and Sections 6.2, 6.3, 6.4,
14.3 11.2 and 13.2

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 Chapter 5:
Data model
Page in subject guide: Reference to 2006 Reference to 2012
edition: edition:
51 Chapters 3, 7 and 14 Chapters 3, 6 and 13
53, first margin note Figure 7.10 and Figure Figures 6.9 and 6.10
7.11 (Note: this has
been misprinted as
Figures 4.10 and 4.11
in some copies of the
guide)
54, Activity 5.3 Chapter 7 Chapter 6
Chapter 6:
Decision-making model
Page in subject guide: Reference to 2006 Reference to 2012
edition: edition:
57 Chapters 1, 2, 3, 12 Chapters 1–3, 11 and
and 13 12
59, Activity 6.1 Chapters 1–3 and 13 Chapters 1–3 and 12
62, Activity 6.3 Chapter 13 Chapter 12
Chapter 7:
Transaction-cost model
Page in subject guide: Reference to 2006 Reference to 2012
edition: edition:
63 Chapters 3 and 4 Chapters 3 and 10
Chapter 8:
Information systems and business strategies
Page in subject guide: Reference to 2006 Reference to 2012
edition: edition:
71 Chapters 2–4 and 11 Chapters 2, 3, 9 and
10