Management information systems
PROF: CHIARA FRIGERIO; PROF. ALESSANDRO CEDERLE
COURSE AIMS
The course aims at acquiring new skills and competences for understanding,
managing and leading the adoption of information systems in companies. The
availability of information in organizations has changed both the decision and
operating processes, allowing companies in reacting and leading the change. Thus,
valued information systems have started to change the way people life, work,
interact, and communicate within and among organizational settings. In this
scenario, the course aims at transferring the right knowledge to understanding the
main topics in dealing with such innovations from a managerial point of view.
The course is divided into two main knowledge areas (modules): the first dedicated
to the fundamentals of the management of information systems, such as
definitions, innovation life cycles, innovation governance and management issues
in information systems. The second area is oriented to transfer the newest big
innovations on information systems (such as big data, cloud computing, network
organization, mobile, etc) in order to comprehend the potential impacts on the
strategies, lifes and contexts.
Students will recognize the features of such innovations and comprehend the main
impacts and managerial implications of them. The course aims at transferring both
theoretical and practical knowledge through case studies, practitioners’ experience,
as well as group applied project works.
COURSE CONTENT
Knowledge Area # 1 (first module): Fundamentals of information systems and its
management
– Strategic information systems: definitions and components.
– Information systems in action: adoption and use dynamics.
– Management Information Systems & Decision support systems.
– MIS Architecture.
– Managing the demand form users.
– The value of information systems: performance, return on investments, etc.
Knowledge Area # 2 (second module): Innovations in action
– Open source.
– Cloud computing e outsourcing.
– From Data Mining to Big Data: the use of information to support critical
business decisions.
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Mobile devices, mobile strategy.
Social media – social network marketing.
E-commerce.
How to implement innovation through change.
READING LIST
For both attending and non-attending students:
K.E. PEARLSON-C.S. SAUNDERS, Strategic Management of Information Systems, 5th ed. International
Student Version, ISBN: 978-1-118-32254-3, Paperback and E-book version.
Readings and other course materials available electronically via Blackboard online system.
TEACHING METHOD
Throughout the course a variety of teaching methods is used to encourage active
learning. We combine formal teaching with projects, role-plays, simulations, case histories,
managers and entrepreneurs’ speeches. Blackboard online system will be hardly used for
interacting with students.
Specific coursework assignments and a group project work are requested to attendees.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
For non-attending students the final exam is composed by an individual written exam on
the handbook.
The attendees are assessed through an individual written exam on the content of the first
module (during the mid-term week), as well as a group project work, which counts for the
60% of the overall mark. The gourp project work is coached by Prof. Cederle, should be
delivered by the end of the course, and will be presented orally by the all group to the
professors.