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Learning Aids for Students

We have structured this book so you can maximize the benefit from the time you spend
reading it. As shown in the following table, each chapter includes various learning aids
to help you succeed in this course.

Resource Description Benefit Example
Guides Each chapter includes three guides Stimulate thought and Chapter 5, Ethics Guide:
that focus on current issues in discussion. Address Querying Inequality?
information systems. One addresses ethics and security
ethics, one addresses security, and once per chapter. Help Chapter 8, Security Guide:
the third addresses other business develop your problem- Digital Is Forever
topics. solving skills. Chapter 9, Guide: Data
Mining in the Real World

Chapter Introduction Each chapter begins with a Understand the Chapter 9, opening
Business Example description of a business situation relevance of the vignette: Business
that motivates the need for the chapter’s content by Intelligence Systems and
chapter’s contents. We focus on applying it to a business PRIDE
two different businesses over the situation.
course of the text: Falcon Security,
a provider of aerial surveillance and
inspection services, and PRIDE,
a cloud-based, healthcare startup
opportunity.
Query-Based Chapter Each chapter starts with a list of Use the questions to Chapter 1, Q1-4: How
Format questions, and each major manage your time, guide Can You Use the Five
heading is a question. The Active your study, and review Component Model?
Review contains tasks for you to for exams.
perform in order to demonstrate Chapter 6, Q6-4: How Do
your ability to answer the Organizations Use the
questions. Cloud?
So What? Each chapter of this text includes Understand how the Chapter 2, So What?
an exercise called “So What?” material in the chapter Augmented Collaboration
This feature challenges the applies to everyday
students to apply the knowledge situations.
they’ve gained from the chapter
to themselves, often in a personal
way. The goal is to drive home the
relevancy of the chapter’s contents
to their future professional lives.
It presents a current issue in IS
that is relevant to the chapter
content and asks you to consider
why that issue matters to you
as a future business
professional.