Chapter 1: Information systems as a topic of study
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1.9 Reading
1.9.1 Books
Bookshops are rich in books published on topics related to information
systems, computing and business uses of ICT.
Many of these books are
adequate, some are excellent and some are poor. Never mind! For a keen
student of information systems, there is certainly no shortage of materials
to study, and you must expect to have to negotiate your way through this
jungle.
There are also many resources online which you can use to widen your
understanding of the topic. Of course not all
online material is of high
quality and quite a lot is simply marketing material. Still, even this type of
material is useful as long as you approach it with a critical and questioning
attitude. From time to time in this guide we suggest websites of this
kind to visit. Their contents will almost
inevitably change over time, and
our suggestions may soon be out of date, but your job is then to make a
sensible use of materials that you do discover.
For example, one of the oldest and most established companies in the ICT
industry is IBM. Their website (www.ibm.com)
contains a lot of material
and information. As we write in 2013, the front page links directly to a
section called ‘Industries and solutions’, which in turn has a section called
‘Case studies’. There you should find details of the information systems of
some IBM customers in various fields.
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