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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Wk |
Date |
Topics |
Reading Assignments / Deliverables |
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1 |
14 July |
--Introduction to 157.700 |
--157.700 Syllabus |
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2 |
21 July |
--Information Systems Strategy |
--Chapter 1 (P&S) |
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3 |
28 July |
--Strategic Use of Information Resources |
--Chapter 2 (P&S) |
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4 |
4 August |
--Organisational Impacts of Information Systems Use |
--Chapters 3 and 4 (P&S) |
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5 |
11 August |
--IT and Business Processes |
--Chapters 5 and 7 (P&S) |
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6 |
18 August |
--Mid-semester Test |
--Study Questions for Information Systems Management |
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7 |
8 Sept |
--Wired and Wireless IT Architecture and Infrastructure |
--Chapter 6 (P&S) |
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8 |
15 Sept |
--Managing Information Systems |
--Chapters 8, 10 and 11 (P&S) |
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9 |
22 Sept |
--Enterprise 2.0 |
--Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration (SR) |
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10 |
29 Sept |
--Knowledge Management |
--Chapter 12 (P&S) |
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11 |
6 October |
--Using Information Ethically |
--Chapter 9 (P&S) |
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12 |
13 October |
--End-of-Semester Test |
--Study Questions for Information Systems Management |
"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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