Information Systems Management
(Information Systems 157.700)
Course Schedule - Semester 2, 2010

Department of Management (Albany)
Massey University - Auckland

Note: This is a DRAFT schedule and some of the information / class materials are not available as of this date, 29 January 2010. Keep checking back for updates.

Navigation quick links: 157.700 syllabus, 157.700 schedule (this page), 157.700 assessment

Notes:
--P&S refers to the textbook Managing and Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach by Keri E. Pearlson and Carol S. Saunders
--LS refers to lecture slides that are available on WebCT
--SR refers to supplemental readings that are available on WebCT or will be distributed in lecture. A bibliography of supplemental readings follows this table.

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Date

Topics

Reading Assignments / Deliverables

1

14 July

--Introduction to 157.700
--Information Systems in the Organisation
--Guest speaker: Musarrat Begum, Liason Librarian for College of Business at Massey University (TBC)
--A Bumper Sticker for Information Systems

--157.700 Syllabus
--157.700 Assessment
--157.700 Schedule
--Introduction (P&S)
--Introduction to Info Systems Mgmt (LS)
--An Overview of Online Searching at Massey Univ Library
--Interactive exercise: A Bumper Sticker for IS
--Deliverable (in class): Student Information Sheet

2

21 July

--Information Systems Strategy
--Case Study: Google

--Chapter 1 (P&S)
--Information Systems Strategy (LS)
--A Biz-IS-IT Strategy Framework (SR)
--A Hypercompetition Strategy Process (SR)
--Google Case Study (pp. 43-45 in P&S)
--Deliverable: ICT Frontier Nomination

3

28 July

--Strategic Use of Information Resources
--Debate: Does IT Matter?

--Chapter 2 (P&S)
--IT for Competitive Advantage (LS)
--Using IS for Competitive Advantage (SR)
--Risk e-Business (SR)
--IT Doesn't Matter (SR)
--How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential (SR)
--Does IT Matter? An HBR Debate (optional SR)
--From the CIO Point of View: The "IT Doesn't Matter" Debate (optional SR)

4

4 August

--Organisational Impacts of Information Systems Use
--Telework

--Chapters 3 and 4 (P&S)
--Managing Information Age Organisations (LS)
--Telework and Society (SR)

5

11 August

--IT and Business Processes
--Information Systems Sourcing
--Preview: Mid-semester Test

--Chapters 5 and 7 (P&S)
--Enterprise Systems (LS)
--Business Benefits from Enterprise Systems Implementation in Small and Medium-sized Organisations (SR)
--Mid-semester Test Information Sheet
--Deliverable: ICT Frontier Overview

6

18 August

--Mid-semester Test
--Return and discuss ICT Frontier Overview

--Study Questions for Information Systems Management

7

8 Sept

--Wired and Wireless IT Architecture and Infrastructure
--Mobile Business

--Chapter 6 (P&S)
--P2P and Network Computing Architectures (LS)
--ICT Architectures of the Future (LS)
--Overview of Wireless Telecommunication Networks (SR)
--Utility Computing (podcast; optional SR)

8

15 Sept

--Managing Information Systems
--Funding IT
--Project Management

--Chapters 8, 10 and 11 (P&S)
--Managing and Funding the IS Organisation (LS)
--The INCIS Fiasco (SR)
--Robert Gauld Interview (podcast; optional SR)

9

22 Sept

--Enterprise 2.0
--Personal and Society Impacts of ICT

--Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration (SR)
--Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work (SR)
--Eight Business Technology Trends to Watch (SR)
--Eight Business Technology Trends to Watch (optional podcast of SR listed above)
--Enterprise 2.0 (LS)
--Interactive exercise: In the future, ICT will make me...

10

29 Sept

--Knowledge Management
--Personal and Society Impacts of ICT

--Chapter 12 (P&S)
--Interactive exercise: In the future, ICT will make me...

11

6 October

--Using Information Ethically
--Student presentations of Frontier ICT reports
--Preview: End-of-Semester Test

--Chapter 9 (P&S)
--Ethical Issues in IS Management (LS)
--How to Make an Effective Presentation (class handout)
--End-of-Semester Test Information Sheet
--Deliverable: ICT Frontier Report

12

13 October

--End-of-Semester Test
--Student presentations of Frontier ICT reports (if required)

--Study Questions for Information Systems Management

Supplemental Readings

"A Business-IS-IT Strategy Framework" extracted from Strategic Management of e-Business by Judy McKay and Peter Marshall, John Wiley and Sons: 2004, pp. 57-59.

"A Strategic Planning Process for Hypercompetition" adapted from Developing E-Business Systems and Architectures: A Manager's Guide by Paul Harmon, Michael Rosen and Michael Guttman, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers: 2001, pp. 29-30.

"Using IS For Competitive Advantage" extracted from: (a) Strategic Management of e-Business by Judy McKay and Peter Marshall, John Wiley & Sons: 2004, pp. 74-75 and (b) Information Technology for Management (4th ed) by Efraim Turban, Ephram McLean and James Wetherby, Wiley and Sons: 2004, pp. 101-104.

"Risk e-Business: Assessing Risk in Electronic Commerce" by Dennis Viehland in Decision Line, v33 n3 May 2002, pp. 9-11.

"IT Doesn't Matter" by Nicholas Carr in Harvard Business Review, v81 n5, May 2003, pp. 41-49.

"How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential" by Amit Basu and Chip Jarnagin in Wall Street Journal, 10 March 2008.

"Does IT Matter? An HBR Debate" in Harvard Business Review, v81 n6, June 2003. (optional)

"From the CIO Point of View: The 'IT Doesn't Matter' Debate" by Larry DeJarnett, Robert Laske and H. Edgar Trainor in Communications of the Association for Information Systems, v13 n 26, 2004, pp. 443-455. (optional)

Telework and Society: Implications for Corporate and Societal Cultures by Joanne Pratt, Joanne Pratt Associates: 2000.

"Business Benefits from Enterprise Systems Implementation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" by Sanjay Mathrani and Dennis Viehland in Australasian Journal of Information Systems, v16 n1, June 2009, pp. 31-50.

"Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration" by Andrew P. McAfee in MIT Sloan Management Review, v47 n3, Spring 2006, pp. 21-28.

"Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work" by Michael Chui, Andy Miller and Robert P. Roberts in The McKinsey Quarterly, February 2009.

"Eight Business Technology Trends to Watch" by James Manyika, Roger Roberts and Kara Sprague in The McKinsey Quarterly, December 2007. (optional podcast of this reading is also available from this link)

"Overview of Wireless Telecommunications Networks" extracted (and updated) from IT for Business Processes: Mobile Business and Working from Home by Dennis Viehland for the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, November 2006, pp. 39-50.

"Utility Computing" podcast of a Radio New Zealand interview with Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, on 9 February 2008 (optional).

"The INCIS Fiasco in the New Zealand Police Force" by Robin Gauld and Shaun Goldfinch in Dangerous Enthusiasms: E-Government, Computer Failure and Information Systems Development, Otago University Press, 2006, pp. 83-98.

"Robert Gauld Interview" podcast of a Radio New Zealand interview with Robin Gauld, author of Dangerous Enthusiasms, on 20 September 2006 (optional).


This page was last updated on 29 January 2010.
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