Weekly Calendar for January 14, 2008 through January 26, 2008

Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Explain why information systems are so important today for business and management.
2. Evaluate the role of information systems in today's competitive business environment.
3. Assess the impact of the Internet and Internet technology on business and government.
4. Define an information system from both a technical and business perspective and distinguish between computer literacy and information systems literacy.
5. Identify the major management challenges to building and using information systems.

 Weekly Calendar for January 28 2008 through February 2, 2008

Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Evaluate the role played by the major types of systems in a business and their relationship to each other.
2. Describe the information systems supporting the major business functions: sales and marketing, manufacturing and production, finance and accounting, and human resources.
3. Analyze the relationship between organizations, information systems, and business processes.
4. Explain how enterprise applications promote business process integration and improve organizational performance.
5. Assess the challenges posed by information systems in the enterprise and management solutions.

 Weekly Calendar for February 4, 2008 through February 9, 2008

Read and review content from Chapter 3 - Information Systems, Organization, Management, and Strategy

Chapter Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Identify and describe important features of organizations that managers need to know about in order to build and use information systems successfully.
2. Evaluate the impact of information systems on organizations.
3. Assess how information systems support the activities of managers in organizations.
4. Analyze how information systems support various business strategies for competitive advantage.
5. Assess the challenges posed by strategic information systems and management solutions.

 Weekly Calendar for February 11, 2008 through February 16, 2008

Chapter 4 - The Digital Firm: Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business

hapter Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Analyze how Internet technology has changed value propositions and business models.
2. Define electronic commerce and describe how it has changed consumer retailing and business-to-business transactions.
3. Compare the principal payment systems for electronic commerce.
4. Evaluate the role of Internet technology in facilitating management and coordination of internal and interorganizational business processes.
5. Assess the challenges posed by electronic business and electronic commerce and management solutions.

 Weekly Calendar for February 19, 2008 through March 1, 2008

see also supplemental chapter from Laudon 6th edition textbook
Hardware and Software in the Enterprise

Chapter Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Define IT infrastructure and describe the components and levels of IT infrastructure.
2. Identify and describe the stages of IT infrastructure evolution.
3. Identify and describe the technology drivers of IT infrastructure evolution.
4. Assess contemporary computer hardware platform trends.
5. Assess contemporary software platform trends.
6. Evaluate the challenges of managing IT infrastructure and management solutions.

PowerPoint Presentation - ch06.ppt 9th edition PowerPoint Presentation - ch06.ppt 6th edition see supplemental chapter

Audio PowerPoint Lectures: Technology in Focus: The History of the PC

  Weekly Calendar for March 3, 2008 through March 8, 2008

Chapter 7 - Managing Data Resources

Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Describe basic file organization concepts and the problems of managing data resources in a traditional file environment.
2. Describe how a database management system organizes information and compare the principal database models.
3. Apply important database design principles.
4. Evaluate new database trends.
5. Identify the challenges posed by data resource management and management solutions.

  Weekly Calendar for March 10, 2008 through March 15, 2008

Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Describe the features of a contemporary corporate network infrastructure and key networking technologies.
2. Evaluate alternative transmission media, types of networks, and network services.
3. Assess the role of the Internet and the World Wide Web in a firm¿s information technology infrastructure.
4. Identify and describe the most important tools for communication and e-business.
5. Identify and describe the challenges posed by networking and the Internet and management solutions.

Chapter 9 - The Wireless Revolution

Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Identify the principal wireless transmission media and devices, cellular network standards and generations, and standards for mobile Web access.
2. Describe the major standards for wireless networks and for wireless Internet access.
3. Evaluate the role of m-commerce in business and describe the most important m-commerce applications.
4. Assess the business value of wireless technology and describe important wireless applications in business.
5. Identify and describe the challenges posed by wireless technology and management solutions.

Supplemental lecture notes for Chapter#9

Instructional lecture notes provided to you for this chapter corresponds with the text.

   Weekly Calendar for March 17, 2008 through March 22, 2008

Chapter 4 - The Digital Firm: Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business

Supplemental lecture notes for Chapter#11

Instructional lecture notes provided to you for this chapter corresponds with the text.

    Weekly Calendar for March 31, 2008 through April 4, 2008

Chapter 12 - Managing Knowledge: Knowledge Work in the Digital Firm

   Weekly Calendar for April 7, 2008 through April 11, 2008

Chapter 13 - Enhancing Management Decision Making for the Digital Firm

Chapter Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Describe different types of decisions and the decision-making process.
2. Evaluate the role of information systems in helping people working individually and in a group make decisions more efficiently.
3. Demonstrate how executive support systems can help senior managers make better decisions.
4. Assess how systems that support decision making can provide value for the firm.
5. Identify the challenges posed by decision-support systems, group decision-support systems, and executive support systems and management solutions.

   Weekly Calendar for April 14, 2008 through April 18, 2008

Chapter 14 - Redesigning the Organization with Information Systems

Chapter Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate how building new systems produces organizational change.
2. Explain how a company can develop information systems that fit its business plan.
3. Identify and describe the core activities in the systems development process.
4. Evaluate alternative methods for building information systems and alternative methodologies for modeling systems.
5. Assess the challenges of building information systems and management solutions.

    Weekly Calendar for April 21, 2008 through April 25, 2008

Chapter 15 - Understanding the Business Value of Systems and Managing Change

Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Evaluate models for understanding the business value of information systems.
2. Analyze the principal causes of information system failure.
3. Assess the change management requirements for building successful systems.
4. Select appropriate strategies to manage the system implementation process.
5. Identify the challenges posed by implementing new systems and management solutions.

    Weekly Calendar for April 28, 2008 through May 2, 2008

Chapter 10 - Information System Security and Control

Chapter Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Explain why information systems need special protection from destruction, error, and abuse.
2. Assess the business value of security and control.
3. Evaluate elements of an organizational and managerial framework for security and control.
4. Evaluate the most important tools and technologies for safeguarding information resources.
5. Identify the challenges posed by information systems security and control and management solutions.

  Weekly Calendar for May 5, 2008 through May 10, 2008

Chapter 5 - Ethical and Social Issues in the Digital Firm

Chapter Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Analyze the relationship among ethical, social, and political issues that are raised by information systems.
2. Identify the main moral dimensions of an information society and specific principles for conduct that can be used to guide ethical decisions.
3. Evaluate the impact of contemporary information systems and the Internet on the protection of individual privacy and intellectual property.
4. Assess how information systems have affected everyday life.
5. Identify the principal management challenges posed by the ethical and social impact of information systems and management solutions.

   Weekly Calendar for May 12, 2008 through May 16, 2008

CIS 66 (sec#5414) ONLINE class
Groups to email (as attachments) completed case study presentations as multi-media packages...(zipped format)...more specific instructions to follow

Audio PowerPoint Lectures: Technology in Focus: Alternatives

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