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MT 608: Management ofInformation Systems Technology

Regis CollegeSyllabus, FA 08

Dr. Mark LewisCH 349X8355mark.lewis@regiscollege.edu

Materials: 1. Course Site on Blackboard: http://blackboard.regiscollege.edu2. Textbook: Laudon, Kenneth C. & Jane P. Laudon: Essentials of Management

Information Systems, 8th edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008).3. Technology: PC Lab workstations, Windows Operating System, and Microsoft

Office 2007 software, Blackboard, and SPSS.

Course Description:

This graduate level course introduces current tools, concepts, and strategies needed to manage information technology effectively. We will examine the use of information technology to enhance operations, support decision-making, and establish controls. Students will work both individually and in groups to research, analyze and present cases and best practices.

Course Goals:

To provide an awareness and understanding of the role of information technology in forming and implementing business-level strategy.

To apply managerial skills and concepts and integrate personal work-related experiences to the study of information systems.

To develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills to synthesize knowledge and information from a variety of sources.

To acquire basic to intermediate software skills in applications common to the business environment.

Prerequisite Skills:

To successfully complete this course, students will need to develop:1. An ability to apply information systems knowledge to solve organizational and

business problems. Information systems include but are not limited to data management, telecommunication, and analysis tools.

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2. Excellent written and communication skills, including organization, preparation, and presentation of content for reports. Some bibliographic and internet research skills are helpful.

3. Basic to intermediate computer skill level in productivity and communications tools (word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software, as well as email and Internet browser). NOTE: Self-paced multimedia tutorials on these software tools come bundled with the MISource CD (See Materials above).

Components of your final grade are:

NOTE: an asterisk (*) indicates an online learning component

Attendance and Participation 20%*Includes online Discussion Forums

Case Presentation 20%

Homework Assignments 20%Includes:1. Online Quizzes 10%2. Application Exercises 10%

Midterm Exam 20%

Final Group Project 20%

100%

Assignments:

1. Case facilitation/presentation – Each week a different student will prepare and present a case study before the class. Cases will be assigned by the instructor using a grid at the beginning of the course. You may opt to use Powerpoint, but other forms of visual aids are welcome. The purpose of the case study is to illustrate one or more main points from the chapter. The running case has an assignment for each chapter of the text, and illustrates a fictional company called “Dirt Bikes U.S.A.” (See the Laudon website for details). Additional cases are taken from the business world. A portion of the presentation will be graded on the insightfulness of your question(s) and your ability to engage the class in discussion. Time will be limited to 15-20 minutes. A complete rubric of assessment criteria can be found in the Course Documents section of Blackboard, Rubrics folder.

2. Midterm Exam – will cover portions of Chapters 1-6, focusing on topics discussed in class as well as those incorporated into the online quizzes for these chapters.

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3. Homework Assignments – Online Quizzes can be found on the Laudon web site; instructions in Blackboard Assignments section

4. Final Group Project – T.B.A. Topic assignments will be made from an alternate text of the instructor’s choosing.

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MT 608 Course Plan:

Week Unit: Features and Cases

Week 1 Sept. 2 Ch. 1: Business Information Systems in Your Career

Case Study: UPS (16) Assign case presentation topics

Software Application Exercise #1: Blackboard Orientation

Week 2 Sept. 9 Ch. 2: E-Business: How Businesses Use Information Systems

Subtopics: Systems from a Functional Perspective (48-52); Constituency Perspective (52-8); Supply Chain Management & CRM (61-64)

Case Study: Tupperware (39-40)

Week 3 Sept. 16 Ch. 3: Achieving Competitive Advantage with Information Systems

Subtopics: fitting the technology to the organization or vice versa

Case Study: Can Detroit make the car customers want? (87-89)

Week 4 Sept. 23 Ch. 4: Information Technology Infrastructure: Hardware and Software

Software lessons learned Software Application Exercise:Using Spreadsheet

to Select Suppliers (70-71) due Oct. 7 either via email or in hard copy

Week 4 Online Discussions (3 forums available in Bb)

*(Week 5) Sept. 30 No Class – Ch. 5: Databases and Information Management ;

Week 4 Online Discussions (continued)

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Week 6 Oct. 7 Ch. 6: Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technologies (overview)

Case Study: Monitoring Employees on Networks (206-207)

Week 7 Oct. 14 Ch. 7: Securing Information Systems

Ch. 8: Enterprise Applications

Week 8 Oct. 21 MIDTERM EXAM Ch. 9: E-Commerce

Software Application Exercise #3: Data Mining using SPSS

Week 9 Oct. 28 Ch. 10: Improving Decision Making and Managing Knowledge

Nov. 3 @ 7 p.m. – Virtual Classroom 1

*(Week 10) Nov. 4 No class -- online discussion of Ch. 11: Building Information Systems )

Nov. 13 @ 7 p.m. – Virtual Classroom 2

*(Week 11) Nov. 11 No class -- Ch. 12: Ethical and Social Issues

Week 12 Nov. 18 Ch. 12 (cont.); Research articles; Work on Final Projects

Case Study: Open Works (in Blackboard Assignments)

Case Study: Taskmap.com *(Week 13) Nov. 25 No class- online discussion forums on Ch 12

Week 14 Dec. 4 FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

NOTE: Online weeks are indicated by *().