9.200
Information Systems
for Management
Introduction to Course
Section L01
Marcel V. Joaquin, CMA
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Management
9.200 - Administrative Details
 Instructor background
 Course outline, marking and structure:
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Structure (lectures, cases, demos, labs, guests)
Assignments (Internet, Access, Excel, research paper)
Class participation is required
Certain topics will only be presented in class (e.g.,
project management concept specifics)
– A comment on academic integrity
 Textbook: Stair/Reynolds, Principles of IS, 4th Edition
 May have TBA days (e.g., guest speaker, career days, etc)
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9.200 - Introduction
Why Learn About IT?
– IT is transforming the nature of work, organizational
competitiveness, and the economy
– IT is becoming ubiquitous
– Those who understand IT may succeed …
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IT Research Paper
 Choose a team of two
 Identify an information technology or application
that is leading edge as of today
 Prepare a report
– Guidelines for references, length, etc. to come later
 Submit your proposal by date specified on
syllabus/course outline
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Internet Assignment #1 - Part 1
Retrieving Information
 Send the marker an email
 Join our listserv so we can communicate
electronically
 Retrieve information from the Internet and ABI
Proquest about an interesting company
 Retrieve and post messages to news groups
 Assemble a brief report on your findings
 Tutorial class: See syllabus for date
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Internet Assignment #1 - Part 2
Providing Information
 Create a Web page
– Create a home page for yourself
– Attach your résumé as a link from your home page
 Tutorial class: See syllabus for date
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Database Management Assignment
 Build a small Access database
 Create some simple data entry forms
– Use of lookup tables
 Learn to use queries
– Data table relationships
 Design some basic reports
 Design useful management/stakeholder reports
 Tutorial class: See syllabus for date
 May be done in teams of two
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Decision Support Assignment
 Create a spreadsheet in Excel to help analyse and
recommend action for a management issue
 Analyze a variety of issues using what-if analysis
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Learning to properly format management reports
Preparing useful financial models
Presenting future-oriented reports
Using solver or goal-seek
 Tutorial class: See class syllabus for date
 May be done in groups of two
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MIS Major
Consider Becoming an MIS Major
Core:
74.100
Core:
9.200
Pattern:
DBMS
Pattern:
74.101
Rec'd:
74.102
Rec'd:
74.206
Option:
Data Comm.
Option:
AIS (9.302)
Option:
Topics
(9.425)
Pattern:
SA&D
Any two of these courses
Pattern:
MIS Strat
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Downloading and Printing Class
PowerPoint Files
 On the Web, go to the schedule in our section’s syllabus
 Find the day and PowerPoint hyperlink you want to
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download
Click on the hyperlink, and save the PPT file to your
floppy diskette, hard drive, Zip disk, etc.
Open the file in PPT, and go to File/Print
In the Print dialogue box, select all slides, to print as
handouts, 3 to a page, in pure black and white, framed or
unframed as you choose
Click enter; your pages should print out
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ROLL CALL
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Next Class
 Chapter One:
– Introduction to Information Systems
 Cases: Be ready to discuss these in class (next class)
– Sales Force Automation, page 37
– Liz Claiborne, page 38
Remember... 474-8600
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