Management Information Systems

Course Name Management Information Systems

Course Outline 1. Fundamental concepts of IS- a basic understanding
of information systems as it is to understand many
other functional area in business.
2. Computer Hardware & Software- discuss the
trends, applications, and some basic concepts of
various types of computer systems in use today,
changing technologies for input, output, and storage
that are provided by the peripheral devices that are
part of modern computer systems, Challenges and
opportunities in the small business software market.
3. Competing with Information Technology - view
information systems strategically, that is, as vital
competitive networks, as a means of organizational
renewal, and as a necessary investment in
technologies that help a company adopt strategies and
business processes that enable it to reengineer or
reinvent itself in order to survive and succeed in
today’s dynamic business environment.
4. Data Resource Management - the business value of
implementing data resource management processes
and technologies in an organization, Explain how
database management software helps business
professionals and supports the operations and
management of a business. Data warehouses and data
mining.
5. Telecommunications and Networks - Identify
several major developments and trends in the
industries, technologies, and business applications of
telecommunications and Internet technologies,
Wireless devices changing business, Cloud computing,
Client-server architecture.
6. Electronic Business Systems - DIGITAL MARKETS,
DIGITAL GOODS, use of the Internet and other
networks and information technologies to support
electronic commerce, enterprise communications and
collaboration, and Web-enabled business processes,
both within a networked enterprise and with its
customers and business partners, Identify the major
categories and trends of e-commerce applications,
Identify and give examples of several key factors and
Web store requirements needed to succeed in e-
commerce, Digital Payment
7. Enterprise Business Systems - basic CRM concepts
and technologies, as well as examples of the benefits
and challenges faced by companies that have
implemented CRM systems as part of their customer-
focused business strategy, Potential challenges and
trends
8. Supply Chain Management - Define the relationship
between decision making and supply chain
management, best practices for implementing a
successful supply chain management system
9. Decision Support Systems - Describe how online
analytical processing can meet key information needs
of managers, Explain the decision support system
concept and how it differs from traditional
management information systems, Identify how neural
networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, virtual
reality, and intelligent agents can be used in business.
10. Developing Business/IT Strategies - developing IT-
based business strategies and other planning issues,
Explain how prototyping improves the process of
systems development for end users and IS specialists.
11. Security and Ethical Challenges - Identify several
types of security management strategies and
defenses, and explain how they can be used to ensure
the security of business applications of information
technology, Identify several ethical issues in how the
use of information technologies in business affects
employment, individuality, working conditions, privacy,
crime, health, and solutions to societal problems.
12. SAP & ERP - SAP Products, ERP Benefits and Risks
(Cost), The Connected Corporation – Integrating SCM,
CRM, and ERP, The Future of ERP.
13. Enterprise and Global Management of Information
Technology: effect on global business/IT strategy of the
trend toward a transactional business strategy by
international business organizations.
14. E-Commerce and E-Business
15. Economics of IT