Management Information Systems:Managing the Digital Firm, 18th edition

Published by Pearson (May 16, 2025) © 2026
  • Kenneth C. Laudon
  • Jane P. Laudon
  • Carol G. Traver

Title overview

For courses in Introduction to Information Systems.

A case-based approach to IS in business today

Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm provides a comprehensive introduction to Information Systems that draws connections between MIS and business performance. The authors present real-world case studies that explain how well-known companies use IT to solve problems and achieve their objectives. This real-world approach helps students develop sought-after skills, learn to lead IS-related management discussions, and use IT to meet bottom-line results.

The 18th Edition has been updated to cover important contemporary topics including the latest on AI, sustainability and analytics.

Hallmark features of this title

Hands-on learning

  • Case studies of real-world companies, 3 per chapter, provide active learning exercises that explore how companies use IS.
  • MIS Decision Simulations enable students to role-play making decisions made by various IS roles.
  • Collaboration and teamwork projects help learners prep for remote work.
  • Hands-on MIS projects in each chapter yield opportunities to practice management decision-making, skills for online businesses and software use (Tableau, Microsoft® Excel, Access or web tools).

Real-world applications

  • Study questions help students focus on learning objectives. A review summary and questions assess mastery of objectives.
  • A Career Opportunities section in each chapter offers an entry-level job description, related interview questions and tips.

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW: End of chapter Hands-On Tableau projects enable students to practice using Tableau in real-world settings, which enhances decision making and boosts mastery.
  • NEW: Detailed coverage of artificial intelligence (AI) integrated throughout the text brings students up to speed on this important topic. A thoroughly revised Chapter 11 focuses solely on AI, including new and expanded coverage of machine learning, neural networks, generative AI and more.
  • NEW: The 18th Edition offers updated coverage of how information systems promote companies’ sustainability goals. Case studies on sustainability appear in Chapters 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9.
  • UPDATED: Additional coverage of cloud computing throughout the text emphasizes its importance. Topics include types of cloud services, issues related to cloud security, cloud-based AI and more.
  • UPDATED: Coverage of data analytics has been expanded with the addition of Tableau projects in Chapters 2, 3, 6 and 12.
  • UPDATED: Coverage of other key topics, including Internet of Things (IoT), big data and business intelligence, appears throughout the text and in the case studies.

Key features

Highlights of the DIGITAL UPDATE for Pearson+ eTextbook (available for Fall 2026 classes)

Instructors, contact your sales rep to ensure you have the most recent version of the course.

  • NEW:The Digital Update offers expanded coverage of the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI). This content helps instructors keep pace with the rapidly growing impact of AI in the business world.
  • UPDATED: Case studies explore how real-world companies actually use IS. The Digital Update includes 7 new cases.
  • UPDATED: The Digital Update offers fresh examples and images, as well as up-to-date data, throughout.
  • Our AI-powered study tool is like a teaching assistant that never sleeps. It offers personalized support and expert guidance when students need it most.
    • NEW: The AI image tool enables readers to dive deeper into images from the text by typing questions to an AI agent.
    • NEW: AI languages support lets learners interact with the AI agent in more than100 languages. And they can set the user interface to 1 of 18 languages.

Features of Pearson+ eTextbook for the 18th Edition; published 2025

  • MIS Headlines for every chapter are updated monthly to help you and your students stay current with the technology industry. Each chapternews article is accompanied by 2 discussion questions you can use in class or assign through your LMS.
  • Check Your Understanding questions for each learning objective enable students to assess their knowledge of the material.
  • Figure animations in each chapter, 42 in total, walk students through important concepts.

Highlights of the DIGITAL UPDATE for MyLab MIS (available for Fall 2026 classes)

Instructors, contact your sales rep to ensure you have the most recent version of the course.

  • NEW: The Digital Update offers expanded coverage of the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI). This content helps educators keep pace with the rapidly growing impact of AI in the business world.
  • UPDATED: Using AI Projects features provide ready-to-assign activities that teach students how to use generative AI effectively, in school and at work. Instructors can use pre-builtassignments or create their own. Many of these are new to the Digital
  • UPDATED: Video Case Assignments illustrate how real-world managers use information technology and systems. Each case is accompanied by 3 auto-graded true/false or multiple-choice questions and 2 or 3 manually graded essay questions. New cases include “Personalized Pricing: How Your Data Could Dictate the Price You Pay,” “How Cisco Built an AI-Ready Data Center in 3 Months” and more.
  • UPDATED: Case studies explore how real-world companies actually use IS. Cases and their accompanying exercises are now available as auto-graded assignments. The Digital Update includes 6 new cases.
  • UPDATED: The Digital Update offers fresh examples and images, as well as up-to-date data, throughout. 

Features of MyLab MIS for the 18th Edition; published 2025

  • An AI Prompt Writing Module helps students attain the skills they need to work with AI efficiently and responsibly.
  • Interactive Reading Assignments blend author content and mixed media into a seamless learning path. These let you create assignments easily with a simple added step in your MyLabcourse setup.
  • Forage Job Simulations present a series of task-based scenarios designed to simulate actual work for the world’s top employers.
  • Scenario-Based Decision Simulations enable learners to practice making business decisions, taking them on a unique path based on their choices.

Looking for Microsoft® 365 Applications content in MyLab? Check out the combined course for Management Information Systems, 18th Edition and Exploring Microsoft 365, 2025 Edition. You get the full offering of the Exploring series including features such as Grader projects, project-based simulations and quizzes for all 4 applications (Excel, Access, Word and PowerPoint).

Table of contents

Part 1. Organizations, Management and the Networked Enterprise

  1. Information Systems in Global Business Today
  2. Global E-Business and Collaboration
  3. Information Systems, Organizations and Strategy
  4. Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems

Part 2. Information Technology Infrastructure

  1. IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies
  2. Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management
  3. Telecommunications, the Internet and Wireless Technology
  4. Securing Information Systems

Part 3. Key System Applications for the Digital Age

  1. Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications
  2. E-commerce: Digital Markets, Digital Goods
  3. Artificial Intelligence
  4. Enhancing Decision Making with Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

Part 4. Building and Managing Systems

  1. Building Information Systems
  2. Making the Business Case for Information Systems and Managing Projects
  3. Managing Global Information Systems

Author bios

About our authors

Kenneth C. Laudon (BA, Stanford University; PhD, Columbia University) was a Professor of Information Systems at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he taught courses on Managing the Digital Firm, Information Technology and Corporate Strategy, Professional Responsibility (Ethics), and Electronic Commerce and Digital Markets for more than 30 years. He also authored numerous books dealing with e-commerce, information technology, information systems, organizations and society, as well as more than 40 articles concerned with the social, organizational and management impacts of information systems, privacy, ethics and digital technology. Ken’s work has had a lasting influence on the MIS field and although he has passed away, his ideas continue to infuse the content of the text.

Jane Price Laudon (BA, Barnard College; MA, Harvard University; PhD, Columbia University) is a management consultant in the information systems area and the author of 7 books. She has taught at Columbia University and New York University’s Stern School of Business. Her special interests include systems analysis, data management, MIS auditing, software evaluation and teaching business professionals how to design and use information systems.

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