CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD

School of Business and Public Administration

Management and Marketing Department

 

MIS 610

Seminar in Management Information Systems and Technology

Winter 2006

 

 

 

1.   McLeod-Schell, Management Information Systems, 9^th edition, Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN 0131406612

 

2.Selected materials from other sources.

 

 

 

Course Objectives:

 

            This course provides recent coverage of information systems and computing technologies as they relate to effective decision-making process. The course explores the applications of MIS as a competitive tool and discusses the applications of this growing technology in business functional areas. The international, social, ethical, legal and organizational issues of MIS will be investigated. The course also provides a thorough coverage of the technology component of this fast growing field and examines popular Internet business models. The students will investigate these various issues by in-depth research, literature review, browsing the Web, case studies and active class participations and presentations.

Learning Objectives:

 

·         To be able to gain an in depth knowledge of the technology components of management information systems.

 

·         To understand the architectures, capabilities and limitations of management information systems.

 

·         To be able to gain an in depth knowledge of decision-making capabilities of management support systems.

 

·         To be able to gain an in depth knowledge of the architecture and decision making capabilities of geographic information systems.

 

·         To be able to gain an in depth knowledge of the Internet business models, their limitations and strengths.

 

·         To be able to outline the capabilities and components of an effective Internet business model.

 

·         To be able to outline the future of information systems and their roles for effective decision making and gaining competitive advantage.

 

 

Week #1    (1,2)

 

·         Class Orientation

·         Individual research project assignment

·         Team project assignment

·         Introduction to Computer-Based Information Systems

 

Assignments: Read Chapter 1

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Week #2    (1,9)

 

• Using Information Technology for Competitive Advantage
• Why so much investment in IT?
• Using Information Technology to Engage in Electronic Commerce
• E-business and E-presence: A matter of survival
• Why going global?
• Computer Use in International Marketplaces
• Internet Business Models

 

Assignments: Read Chapters 2-3

Read Handouts on Internet Business Models

Preliminary presentation of the research projects

The outline of the individual term projects is due the second session of Week #2

 

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Week #3    (1,16)

 

• Ethical Implications of Information Technology: A Overview
• Protecting individual and corporate intellectual properties
• Systems Concepts
• Why is a corporation an open system?

·         System Life Cycle Methodologies

·         Systems Users and Developers

·         Applying system life cycle methodologies to building functional information systems

 

Assignments: Read Chapter 4

The outline of the group term projects is due the second session of Week #3

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Week #4    (1,23)

 

• Fundamentals of Computer Processing
• Data Communications: Delivering information any time and anywhere
• WANs, LANs and MANs
• Virtual Private Networks
• The Convergence Era

      

Assignments: Read Chapter 5

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Week #5    (1,30)

 

• Functional Information Systems

• The Database and Database Management Systems
• Using Database Systems for Managing Information Resources
• Data Warehouse and Data Marts
• Data Mining Tools

Assignments: Read Chapter 6

 

 

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Week #6    (2,6)

 

• Systems Development Process
• SDLC: A Second Look
•  Prototyping and other Methodologies for MIS design
• DFDs and other Graphical Tools
• MIS in Action: A Comprehensive Survey

·         Review for the Exam

·         First Exam (The second Session of Week 6)

 

Assignments: Read Chapter 7

 

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FIRST EXAM

Chapters 1-7 and the Handouts

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Week #7    (2,13)

 

• Review of the Exam

• Protecting Data Resources
• Threats and Vulnerabilities
• Ethical Issues and Considerations
• Developing a Security Plan
• Other Legal and Social Issues
• Information Security: A Second Look

 

Assignments: Read Chapters 8-9

Student Presentations

 

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Week #8  (2,20)

• Decision Support and Executive Information Systems

• Decision Support Systems: Improving the Manager’s Effectiveness
• The Virtual Office
• Enterprise Information Systems

• Marketing Information Systems: Managing the four P’s
• HRIS and other Functional Information Systems

Assignments: Read Chapters 10-11

Student Presentations

 

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Weeks #9 and #10  (2,27, and 3,6)

Student Presentations

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Week #11  (3,13)

 

·         Catching Up!

·         Review for the Exam

·         Final Exam

Student Presentations

 

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GRADING POLICIES

Total of 580 Points

 

                      Exam #1                                                                                           140 points

                      Exam #2                                                                                           100 points

                     Outline of the individual term project                                             20 points

                     Outline of the group term project                                                   20 points

                     Individual term project oral                                                             40 points    

                     Individual term project written                                                          100 points

                     Group term project oral                                                                  40 points    

                     Group term project written                                                               100 points

                     Class presence and participation                                                    20 points

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Note 1: The instructor will assign individual and group research projects the first session of the course. The topics are listed at the end of the syllabus.

 

Note 2: Research projects should emphasize strategic decision-making and should be approached in an applied manner.

 

Note 3: Group projects will be conducted in teams of two students assigned by the instructor.

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Topics for Individual Term Projects

 

 

1.      Convergence of Voice, Video and Data: Strategic applications

2.      Intranets: Technologies and Applications

3.      Extranets: Technologies and Applications

4.      Managerial Applications and Considerations of Data Communications

5.      Global Information Systems

6.      Information Systems in Support of Human Resources Management

7.      Information Systems in Support of Marketing Operations

8.      Security Issues and Measures in the E-commerce World

9.      Mobile E-commerce

10.  Virtual Organizations and Virtual Teams

11.  E-government

12. Marketing and Advertising on the Web: Measuring their Strategic Values

13.  Ethical and Legal Issues of IT

14.  Supply Chain (Network) Management and IT

15.  Customer Relationship Management on the Web

16.  Personalization and Customization Technologies

17.  Forensic Computing

18.  Biometric Security Measures

19.  Information Warfare

20.  EDP Auditing

21.  Cost of Computer Crime and Related Security Breaches

22.  Digital Identity

23.  Digital Divide

24.  Spam and the Legal Counter Attacks

25.  Software Piracy

26.  Online Banking

27.  Internet Gambling

28.  Digital Economy

29.  Business Process Reengineering and the IT Role in this Process

30.  Gaining a Competitive Advantage Using Information Systems

31. Information Systems in Support of Manufacturing Operations

32.  Value Chain and E-commerce

33.  Click-and-Brick Electronic Commerce

34.  Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

35.  Ergonomics in Information Systems

 

 

 

 

Group Case Analysis

 

The Rise and Fall of “dot comes”: Examining Business Models on the Web

 

1.      Time Warner: The AOL Merger

2.      Amazon.com

3.      eBay

4.      Yahoo!

5.      Google.com

6.      Microsoft (.NET Strategy)

7.      Travelocity.com

8.      Red Hat Software and Linux Operating Systems

9.      Sun Microsystems

10.  Merrill Lynch

11.  Mcaffe.com

12.  Apple Computer

13.  Cisco Systems Inc.

14.  Oracle

15.  Priceline.com

16.  iVillage

17.  Expedia.com

18.  VerticalNet

19.  Beyond Interactive (www.gobeyond.com)

20.  GMBuyPower.com

 

 

Have a Pleasant Quarter!!