THE WALLACE E. CARROLL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
MD 240: Management Information Systems
Fall 2000
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Spring 2001 - Tentative Schedule
Updated Wednesday, April 25, 2001
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| Session # Date |
Class Topic/Activities | Assignment Due |
| Session 1 1/17 - Wednesday |
Course overview and objectives. Distribute syllabus. New: Class Lecture Slides |
None. |
| Session 2 1/22 - Monday |
Topic: Organizations, Environments and
Information Technology New: Turban, Meredith & Wetherbe Slides Class Lecture Slides |
Chapter 1 Questions for Discussion: 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 Exercises: none Internet Exercises: 1a-c |
| Session 3 1/24 - Wednesday |
Topic: Information Technologies:
Concepts and Management New: Turban, Meredith & Wetherbe Slides Class Lecture Slides |
Chapter 2 Questions for Discussion: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 Exercises: 1 Internet Exercises: 4 |
| Session 4 1/29 - Monday |
Topic: Strategic Information Systems Quiz: Chapters 1 & 2 New: Turban, Meredith & Wetherbe Slides Class Lecture Slides |
Chapter 3 Be What You Aren't, Nicholas Carr, TheStandard.com Giant Steps, Nicholas Carr, TheStandard.com Questions for Discussion: 3, 7, 8, 9 Exercises: 2 Internet Exercises: 6 |
| Session 5 1/31 - Wednesday Session 6 2/5 - Monday |
Topic: Business Process Reengineering
and Information Technology New: Turban, Meredith & Wetherbe Slides Class Lecture Slides Case Study 1: Woodstrat: A Support System for Strategic Management (http://www.wiley.com/college/ turban2e/pdf/part1.pdf) Requires Adobe's Acrobat Reader. Case Study Questions are on the Study Guide page (click here) |
Chapter 4 Questions for Discussion: 6, 10, 12, 13, 16, 21 Exercises: Internet Exercises: 3 |
| Session 7 2/7 - Wednesday |
Topic:
Hardware Quiz: Chapters 3 & 4 New: Class Lecture Slides - Hardware and Software |
Chapter T.1 Read this brief time-line of hardware (and software): Comp. Sci. Timeline Read about pre-computer MIS hardware in the Story of IBM Compare the types of contemporary hardware in your book to those reviewed on CNET (http://www.cnet.com/, click on "Hardware Reviews" button) Briefly browse the future of hardware being envisioned at The MIT Media Lab (http://www.media.mit.edu/research/) |
| Session 8 2/12 - Monday |
Topic:
Software New: Class Lecture Slides - Pictures of Software Development Environments New: Handout - Software Architecture Levels |
Chapter T.2 Read Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century Browse Microsoft's .NET site and read their white paper on the .NET software initiative Briefly browse the future of software being envisioned at The MIT Media Lab (http://www.media.mit.edu/research/) |
| Session 9 2/14 - Wenesday |
Topic: Data
and Databases New: Class Lecture Slides - Databases |
Chapter T.3 New! Read: How to choose a database for WWW applications, followed by lots of geeks passionately arguing about which database configuration is best. Browse these sites: Database Solutions: Oracle databases - Oracle Technology Network (OTN) members can download Oracle free. Sybase databases Informix databases ObjectStore MySQL - so good that NASA is replacing Oracle with MySQL Comprehensive DBMS & DBMS Application Link Page |
| Session 10 2/19 - Monday |
Topic: Telecommunications and the
Internet New: Class Lecture Slides - Network and Network Management |
Chapter T.4 Browse these sites: Internet2 - http://www.internet2.org/ |
| Session 11 2/21 - Wednesday |
Technology Analysis Group Presentations | |
| Session 12 2/26 - Monday |
Topic:
Planning for Information Technology and Systems Quiz: Chapters T.1 - T.4 New: Class Lecture Slides - IT Architectures Class Lecture Slides - IT Planning |
Chapter 12 Questions for Discussion: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Exercises: 1 Internet Exercises: |
| Session 13 2/28 - Wednesday |
Topic: Systems
Development New: Class Lecture Slides - Systems Development |
Chapter 14 Questions for Discussion: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 Exercises: Internet Exercises: 1 |
| 3/5 | SPRING BREAK | |
| 3/7 | SPRING BREAK | |
| Session 14 3/12 - Monday |
Topic: Information Technology Economics New: Class Lecture Slides - IT Economics, Intangibles, Evaluation |
Chapter 13
Questions for Discussion: 1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11 Exercises: 5 Internet Exercises: 5 |
| Session 15 3/14 - Wednesday |
Topic: Managing Information Resources,
Control, and Security New: Class Lecture Slides - Management and Security Case Study 2: Managing Public Information Systems Development (http://www.wiley.com/college/ turban2e/icase4.html) Case Study Questions are on the Study Guide page (click here) |
Chapter 15 Questions for Discussion: 4, 6, 8, 10, 15, Exercises: Internet Exercises: 1, 2, 5 |
| Session 16 3/19 - Monday |
Topic:
Network Computing: Discovery, Communication and Collaboration Quiz: Chapters 12 & 13 Quiz: Chapters 14 & 15 New: Class Lecture Slides: Network Computing |
Chapter 5 Questions for Discussion: 1, 2, 5, 6 Exercises: none Internet Exercises: 5 Browse some of the following sites and find out what you can about their technologies: Collaboration: Client-Server Architecture Lotus Notes - http://www.notes.net/ Lotus Domino - http://www.lotus.com/domino eRoom - http://www.eroom.com/, http://www.eroom.net Visto.com (Groups) - http://www.visto.com/ Excite Clubs - http://clubs.excite.com/ Yahoo Clubs - http://clubs.yahoo.com/ eGroups - http://www.egroups.com/ X-collaboration - http://www.x-community.com/ Intranets.com - http://www.intranets.com/ HotOffice - http://www.hotoffice.com/ Project.net - http://www.project.net/ Team Center - http://www.inovie.com/ ProjectWeb - http://www.novient.com/ Magi - http://www.endtech.com/ Google.com - Links Collaboration: Peer-to-Peer GrooveNetworks - http://www.groove.net/- ARTICLE Video Conferencing/Collaboration Astound - http://www.astound.com/ Centra - http://www.centra.com/ MS NetMeeting - http://www.microsoft.com/ windows/netmeeting CUSeeMe, MeetingPoint Server - http://www.cuseeme.com/ Screen Sharing Expression - http://www.expression-net.com/ MS NetMeeting - http://www.microsoft.com/ windows/netmeeting Whiteboard MS NetMeeting - http://www.microsoft.com/ windows/netmeeting Chat MSN Messenger - http://messenger.msn.com/ AOL Instant Messenger - http://www.aol.com/ Expression - http://www.expression-net.com/ GDSS http://www.gdss.com/ Discovery: Intelligent Software Agents http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_3/ch_123/ http://www.research.ibm.com/iagents/ http://www.hermans.org/agents/index.html http://agents.umbc.edu/ Agent Internet Applications CMU Agent Applications Google.com Links to Agents Alexa Internet Use Agent Internet Robots/Crawlers The BotSpot WWW Robots Page MetaCrawler/MiniCrawler |
| Session 17 3/21 - Wednesday |
Topic:
Electronic Commerce New: Class Lecture Slides Case Study 3: Minicase: Grocery Supermarket Keeps it Fresh (p. 280) Note: Case Study Questions are on the Study Guide page (click here) |
Chapter 6 Questions for Discussion: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 21, 22, 23 Exercises: 2, 7 Internet Exercises: 3 |
| Session 18 3/26 - Monday |
Topic:
Impacts of IT on Organizations, Individuals, and Society Quiz: Chapters 5 & 6 New: Class Lecture Slides |
Chapter 7 Readings on Societal Issues Are We Becoming a Lonely and Lethargic Breed? http://www.latimes.com/business/20001026/t000102193.html The Dangers of Hyping http://www.business2.com/content/insights/dailyinsights/2000/10/26/21708 Link Me To Your Leader http://www.business2.com/content/insights/opinion/2000/09/29/19123 Webcams and the ... http://news.excite.com/news/zd/001026/09/webcams-and-the The Digital Divide http://news.excite.com/news/zd/001026/07/coops-corner-the Questions for Discussion: 1, 12, 13 Exercises: Internet Exercises: 3, 5, 6 Browse these sites: Palm computing: Palm.com Palm.net Web-Clipping Apps PalmOS.com http://www.handango.com/ Mobile Phones: http://www.sprintpcs.com/ http://www.getconnected.com/ Distributed Devices: http://www.bluetooth.com/ http://www.motorola.com/bluetooth/ http://bluetooth.ericsson.se/ http://bluetooth.ericsson.se/ |
| Session 19 3/28 - Wednesday |
Topic: Transaction
Processing, Innovative Functional Systems, Supply Chain Integration New: Class Lecture Slides |
Chapter 8 Browse these sites: Transaction Processing: Nuts and Bolts of Transaction Processing Transaction Processing Performance Council's performance benchmarks Supply chain integration: Supply Chain Council - http://www.supply-chain.org/ SAP - http://www.sap.com/ Manugistics - http://www.manu.com/ i2 - http://www.i2.com/ List of Supply Chain Solution Providers - http://www.supply-chain.org/html/vendors.cfm Google.com ERP Software Links Questions for Discussion: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 23 Exercises: Internet Exercises: 2, 3 |
| Session 20 4/2 - Monday |
Topic:
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and CRM Software New: Class Lecture Slides Case Study 4: AT&T Wireless Knows Its Customers (http://www.ncr.com/repository/case_studies/ data_warehousing/att_wireless.htm) or (http://www.ncr.com/repository/ case_studies/pdf/sp6696.pdf) Note: Case Study Questions are on the Study Guide page (click here) |
Chapter 8, p. 371-375 Browse the following sites and briefly analyze their CRM applications: CRM: mySAP - http://www.mysap.com/ QAD - http://www.qad.com/ Siebel Systems - http://www.siebel.com/ Blue Martini - http://www.bluemartini.com/ Ariba - http://www.ariba.com/ NCR - http://www.ncr.com Peoplesoft - http://www.peoplesoft.com/ Kana - http://www.kana.com/ CRM ASP: Applicast - http://www.applicast.com/ ERP/SCM/CRM: IBM-i2-Ariba Alliance - http://www.ibm-i2-ariba.com/ |
| Session 21 4/4 - Wednesday |
Topic:
Supporting Management and Decision Making New: Quiz: Chapters 7 & 8 New: Class Lecture Slides - DSS |
Chapter 9 Questions for Discussion: 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 16 Exercises: Internet Exercises: 1, 5, 6 Browse the following sites: Decision Support Systems: http://www.dssresources.com/ http://www.dssresources.com/history/dsshistory.html Spatial DSS Crime and Substance Abuse Prevention DSS Google.com Links |
| Session 22 4/9 - Monday |
Topic: Data
and Knowledge Management New: Class Lecture Slides - Knowledge Management |
Chapter 10 Questions for Discussion: 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 14 Exercises: Internet Exercises: Browse the following sites: Knowledge management: Project Xanadu - http://www.xanadu.com/, http://www.xanadu.com.au/ MultiCosm - http://www.multicosm.com/ Hyperwave - http://www.hyperwave.com/ CritSuite - http://www.crit.org/ Lotus Project Raven - http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/ welcome/km http://www.informationweek.com/ 791/lotu2.htm Verity Business Portals - http://www.verity.com/ Brint.com's Virtual Library on KM - http://www.brint.com/km/ Google.com Knowledge Management Directory - http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Knowledge_Management/ Imana - http://www.imana.com/ Geographic Information Systems ESRI - http://www.esri.com/ ESRI campus - http://campus.esri.com/ ESRI ArcData Online (use the GIS!) - http://www.esri.com/data/online/ OLAP Drill-Down on Alexa data - http://www.alexaresearch.com/clientdir/products/top_websites.php |
| 4/11 | EASTER BREAK | |
| 4/16 | PATRIOT'S DAY | |
| Session 23 4/18 - Wednesday |
Topic:
Intelligent Support Systems New: Class Lecture Slides - Intelligent Support Systems Quiz: Chapters 9 & 10 Case Study 5: Nabisco Net Brings Sweet Success (http://www.wiley.com/college/ turban2e/pdf/part3.pdf) Requires Adobe's Acrobat Reader. Note: Case Study Questions are on the Study Guide page (click here) |
Chapter 11 Browse the following sites: Questions for Discussion: 2, 3, 7, 9 Exercises: Internet Exercises: 6 "Artificial Intelligence Gets Real" http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/1130/6212176a.html (Sidebar 1) http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/1130/6212176s1.html (Sidebar 2) http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/1130/6212176s2.html "One-Stop Shopping for Airline Tickets" http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,8029,00.html "Thinking Machines" http://www.businessweek.com/common_frames/bws.htm?http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_32/b3693096.htm Browse some of these sites: Directories of AI Technology Google AI Directory (by category) - http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/ Artificial Neural Networks Game (ANN rat searches for cheese) - http://www.sce.carleton.ca/netmanage/java/Maze.html Function Approximation - http://neuron.eng.wayne.edu/bpFunctionApprox/bpFunctionApprox.html Neural Network Java Applets - http://www.aist.go.jp/NIBH/~b0616/Lab/Links.html Expert Systems Hewlett Packard Support (Ask Jeeves searches for solution) - http://www.hp.com/cposupport/nonjsnav/prhome.html Intelligent Agent Technology Agent.org - http://www.agent.org/pub/activity.html Microsoft Agent - http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/agent/default.asp MIT Media Lab Agents - http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/groups/agents/projects/ Genetic Algorithm/Intelligent Agents Optimization Demo - http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/~mramsey/ga.html Language to Language Translation Babelfish Language Translator - http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn Text To Speech (TTS) WinSpeech - http://www.pcww.com/web_mat/wspeech.html ClipNTalk - http://www.pcww.com/web_mat/clntk.html Microsoft Agent Text to Speech Engines/Voices - http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/agent/speechengine.asp IBM Via Voice - http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/ Speech Input & Recognition Speak&Mail2000, WebSpeak - http://www.shadisoft.com/ Talk to your PC as a child - http://www.mychildinc.com/ Dragon NaturallySpeaking - http://www.dragonsys.com/ Collaborative (Social) Filtering Collaborative Filtering Resources - http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/collab/ Information Filtering Resources - http://www.enee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/filter.html Movies MovieLens - http://movielens.umn.edu/ GroupLens/NetPerceptions - http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/, http://www.netperceptions.com/ IMDb Movie Recommender - http://us.imdb.com/Recommends/ Movie Critic - http://www.moviecritic.com/ Video Guide - http://vguide.sepia.com/ Music Jaboom! - http://www.jaboom.com/ moodLogic - http://www.moodlogic.com/ MongoMusic - http://www.mongomusic.com/ Music Buddha - http://www.mubu.com/ Gigabeat - http://www.gigabeat.com/ News Phoaks - http://www.phoaks.com//index.html Restaurants Trabble - http://www.trabble.com/ |
| Session 24 4/23 - Monday |
Topic:
Online Corporate Training Systems: Customized Education On-Demand New: Class Lecture Slides: "E-Learning and the Manager: Educational Information Systems and Emerging IT Link to e-Fellows System Course Wrap-Up |
Related Readings "Designing Distributed Learning Systems" Browse these sites: Asynchronous Learning Networks - http://www.aln.org/ BlackBoard - http://www.blackboard.com/ WebCT - http://www.webct.com/ SABA - http://www.saba.com/ |
| Session 25 4/25 - Wednesday |
Project Presentations I |
#1 - Housing system, Project Manager: Crystal #2 - Housing lottery, Project Manager: Dave #3 - NE Brewing, Project Manager: Steve Schlegel #4 - Project Manager: Peter Manderino |
| Session 26 4/30 - Monday |
Project Presentations II |
#5 - BC Escort Service, Project Manager: Jacquie #6 - USTDK, Project Manager: Peter #7 - BC Mail Room, Project Manager: Jorge #8 - BC Marketplace, Project Manager: Rich |
| 5/1 - Wednesday | Study Day | |
| 5/4 - Friday | Final Exam | Time: 12:30 pm Room: Fulton 117 (our classroom) |