A business process approach. David M. Kroenke and Earl McKinney's new textbook "Processes, Systems, and An Introduction to MIS "is the first introductory MIS textbook to emphasize business processes while also presenting the key topics usually associated with an intro course.
For a textbook, this read pretty quickly, and I didn't normally fall asleep until about 10 minutes into my reading. That's certainly better than most textbooks where I can't get past the first paragraph or two.