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Syllabus
MIS 699 – Managing Emerging Information Technology
Semester
Spring 2014
Day of Week/Time
WebCampus 24/7
Dr. Michael zur Muehlen
Stevens Institute of Technology
Howe School of Technology Management
Babbio 426
Office Hours:
Tuesdays, 9:00-10:30AM
Schedule appointments via:
http://mzm_stevens.youcanbook.me
Class Website:
http://moodle.stevens.edu
Catalog Description
IT organizations must be able to leverage new technologies. This course focuses on how
organizations can effectively and efficiently assess trends and emerging technologies in data and
knowledge management, information networks, and analyzing and developing application systems.
Students will learn how to help their organizations define, select, and adopt new information
technologies.
Overview
This course will introduce students to new directions in information systems and effective
approaches for evaluating their relevance and applicability to their business environments as well as
the new challenges and problems that they present. They will learn about emerging technologies
and the latest design trends in data and knowledge, networks and applications in terms of what
issues they address and in particular, how organizations can exploit them for competitive
advantage.
Relationship of Course to Rest of Curriculum
MIS 699 is a core course in the Master of Science in Information Systems curriculum.
Learning Goals
MIS 699 Managing Emerging Information Technology
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After taking this course, students will be able to:
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Create a business case for an emerging information technology
Identify factors affecting the successful adoption of new information technologies
Identify the key attributes, business benefits, risks, and cost factors of a new technology
Know how to effectively use advanced search and selection metrics for identifying and
selecting new technology
Describe technology trends that presently drive or are expected to drive the selection of
new technologies over the next decade
Pedagogy
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Case Studies, Lectures and Videos
Readings from texts and selected relevant articles and publications
Recommended Text

Individual readings as posted to individual weekly modules.
Assignments
Assignments
Group Assignment 1
Group Assignment 2
Individual Assignment
Due
Week 7
Week 12
Week 14
Grading
Grading for each deliverable will be done on a scale from 0-100. The final grade will be computed based on the
weighting of the deliverables according to the following resolution:
Points (100 scale)
95-100
90-94
85-89
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
50-59
0-49
Grade
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD
F
Types of Assignments
Group Assignments
Individual Assignment
Online Participation
Total
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Final Grade Weight
50
25
25
100
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MIS 699 Managing Emerging Information Technology
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Ethical Conduct
The following statement is printed in the Stevens Graduate Catalog and applies to all students taking Stevens
courses, on and off campus.
“Cheating during in-class tests or take-home examinations or homework is, of course, illegal and immoral. A
Graduate Academic Evaluation Board exists to investigate academic improprieties, conduct hearings, and determine
any necessary actions. The term ‘academic impropriety’ is meant to include, but is not limited to, cheating on
homework, during in-class or take home examinations and plagiarism.“
Consequences of academic impropriety are severe, ranging from receiving an “F” in a course, to a warning from the
Dean of the Graduate School, which becomes a part of the permanent student record, to expulsion.
Reference: The Graduate Student Handbook, Academic Year 2009-2010 Stevens Institute of Technology, page 10.
Consistent with the above statements, all homework exercises, tests and exams that are designated as individual
assignments MUST contain the following signed statement before they can be accepted for grading.
____________________________________________________________________
I pledge on my honor that I have not given or received any unauthorized assistance on this
assignment/examination. I further pledge that I have not copied any material from a book, article, the Internet or
any other source except where I have expressly cited the source.
Signature ________________
Date: _____________
Please note that assignments in this class may be submitted to www.turnitin.com, a web-based antiplagiarism system, for an evaluation of their originality.
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Course Schedule
Week
Week 1
Welcome and
1/20/14
Introduction
Week 2
1/27/14
Description
Title
The Future, Scenarios,
and the Gartner Hype
Cycle

Introduction to the Course

How easy is it to predict the
Assignment
Due
Reading
future?

The Phases of the Gartner
Hype Cycle

Forum Post
 Gartner Hype
Cycle 2013/2014
Technologies in the Hype
Cycle

When does a technology
reach the mainstream?
Week 3
2/3/14

Crossing the Chasm
Moore’s model of early
adopters, early and late
 Geoffrey Moore:
Forum Post
majority

Crossing the
Chasm
Hype Cycle vs Market
Adoption

The Role of Standards in
Emerging Technology
Week 4
2/10/14
Standards
Development

Government vs Industry
Forum Post
Standards
Internet Standard Setting

How can we build models
about the future?
Week 5
2/17/10

Scenario Planning

Sunny Day vs Rainy Day
scenarios

The Art of Scenario
 Peter Schwartz:
The Art of the
Long View
Thinking

The Process of Choosing an
Emerging Technology
Week 6
2/24/14
Real Options Theory

Economic Valuation of
 Sullivan (1997)
Technology Choices

Choices for Developers of
Emerging Technologies
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Week
Description
Title

Assignment
Due
Reading
Teams present on the
following:
o
Week 7
Emerging Technology
3/3/14
Scenarios
Wearable Technologies and
the Quantified Self
o
Team Report &
3D Printing and the Future of
Manufacturing
o
Wireless Power Transmission
o
The Internet of Things
o
Personalized Medicine and
YouTube
Presentations
Smart Drugs
Spring Break (3/10/14)

Week 8
3/17/14
Technology Showcase:
Using information about
Opinion Mining
customer sentiment to
make business decisions
Week 9
3/24/14
Semantic Web

Using OWL and RDF to
Technology
store the meaning of things

Week 10
3/31/14
Disintermediation and
the Long-term Effect of
Technology Showcase:
Fast vs Slowly Emerging
Technologies

Technology
Long-term disruption of
industries due to
technology evolution

Week 11
4/7/14
Information Technology
as an enabler of New
From Taylorism to
Crowdsourcing

Interaction Models
Team Report &
Effects of emerging
Information Technologies
YouTube
Presentation
on Organization Forms
Week 12
4/14/14

Decision Making about Emerging Technologies

Teams present on one of the following topics:

ACME Bank: Develop a consumer banking application for Windows Mobile

ACME Cellular: Replace the core Customer Relationship Management software (Salesforce)
with an Open Source alternative (SugarCRM)
Group Presentations

ACME Manufacturing: Replace the existing ERP platform used in your warehouse (SAP) with
an Open Source alternative (Open ERP)

ACME Airways: Issue RFID Customer Loyalty Cards that double as electronic boarding
passes

ACME Software: Port an existing Database System to Linux
ACME Healthcare: Migrate your clinical information system to a new Cloud Computing
Platform
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Week
Description
Title

Week 13
Gamification and Social
4/21/14
Media Façades
Assignment
Due
Reading
Wrapping technology in a
playful metaphor to expand
use

Taking personal technology
to the workplace

A look back at the Gartner
recommendations for
managing Emerging
Week 14
The Hype Cycle
4/28/14
Revisited
Technologies

The role of technology
evolution in layering and
 Gartner: How CIOs
Team Report &
YouTube
Presentation
Can Determine
Which Emerging
Technologies CEOs
Will Want (2013)
recombination of
infrastructures
All assignments are due as noted on Moodle.
In fairness to others, late work will be penalized 5% per day overdue.
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