This book provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to business applications of information technology, information systems building and the management of information systems. Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction to Information Systems, Basic Concepts - Understand Information, Basic Concepts - An Introduction to Information Systems, Hardware, Software, Networks and Telecommunications, Business Applications of Information Systems, Information Systems Development, An Introduction to Acquiring and Developing Information Systems, Initiating Systems Development, Systems Project Management, Systems Analysis, Systems Design, System Build and Implementation and Maintenance, Information Systems Management, Information Systems Strategy, Protecting Information Systems Against Security, End-User Computing and Providing End-User Services, Managing Internet - and Intranet - Based Information Systems, Ethical and Legal and Moral Constraints on Information Systems, Information Systems in the Future, Glossary, Index.