Webster University
Shanghai
COURSE SYLLABUS
BUSN 6080
Lao GuoLing
Management Information Systems
(O) 86-21-65903873
(Fax) 86-21-65904784
(E-mail) gllao@mail.shufe.edu.cn
Summer 2013
Shanghai
Required Textbooks
Management Information System for the Information Age (8th)
Course Description
This course is designed for MBA students. Focusing specifically on the actual
implementation and use of technology in business today, this course takes a very
pragmatic and pointed approach to introducing technology as it applies to the business
world.
Expected Incoming Student Competency
 Know ABC of Microsoft Office.
Statement of Course Objectives
 Introducing students the foundation of the information age, the role of IT and MIS,
and he use of technology to gain a strategic and competitive business advantage.
 Helping students explore the specific technologies that enable an organization to
succeed.
 Providing students with a view of the organizational and people issues associated
with the planning for development, management, and use of information technology
in an organization.
Course Outcome Competencies
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
 Identify the Management Information Systems challenge.
 Demonstrate their role as information-literate knowledge workers.
 Understand the dimensions of information and analysis real case through varied
dimensions of information.
 Identify varied information systems in an organization.
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Create a relational database.
Mine useful information from database and data warehouse.
Create a decision model using Spreadsheet.
Demonstrate the role of networks in achieving electronic commerce.
Align organizational goals and information technology.
Evaluating information technology systems.
Develop the information technology systems plan.
Compare the different methods of the system development.
COURSE SCHEDULE
P.M. Session
THEME: Chapter 1 The Information Age In Which You Live:
Changing the Face of Business
Topics:
 Management Information Systems
 Porter’s five forces model: assessing the state of the
competition
 Porter’s three generic strategies: building business
strategy
 Identifying important business processes: value-chain
analysis
 Case study
Week 1
Saturday
Week 2
Saturday
P.M. Session
THEME: Assessing the Values of Information: Decision
Analysis with Spreadsheet Software
Topics:
 Case study -- (Stapleton Electronics, Inc)
 Lists
 Basic autofilter and custom autofilter
 Conditional formatting
 Pivot tables
 Case study
 Group projects
Week 3
Saturday
P.M. Session
THEME: Chapter 2 Major Business Initiatives: Gaining
Competitive Advantage with IT
Topics:
 Supply chain management
 Customer relationship management
 E-collaboration
 IT culture: an organizational perspective
 Enterprise resource planning: bringing IT all together
 IT skills: to make your business career a success
 Case study
 Group projects
Week 4
Saturday
P.M. Session
THEME: Chapter 3 Database and Data Warehouses:
Building Business Intelligence
Topics:
 The relational database model
 Database management system tools
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Data warehouses and data mining
Business intelligence revisited
Information ownership
Case study
Group projects
Week 5
Saturday
P.M. Session
THEME: Chapter 4 Decision Support and Artificial
Intelligence: Brainpower for our Business
Topics:
 Types of decisions
 Decision support systems
 Geographic information systems
 Artificial intelligence
 Expert systems
 Neural networks and fuzzy logic
 Genetic algorithms
 Intelligent agent
 Multi-agent systems and agent-based modeling
 Case study
 Group projects
Week 6
Saturday
P.M. Session
THEME: Chapter 5 Electronic Commerce: Strategies for
the New Economy
Topics:
 E-commerce business models
 Understand your business, products, services, and
customers
 Find customers and establish relationships
 Move money easily and securely
 E-business trends
 Case study
 Group projects
Week 7
Saturday
P.M. Session
THEME: Chapter 6 System Development: Phases, Tools,
and Techniques
Topics:
 Insourcing and the systems development life cycle
 Component-based development
 Selfsourcing (End-User Development)
 Prototyping
 Outsourcing
 End-user development
 Case study
 Group projects
Week 8
Saturday
P.M. Session
THEME: Chapter 7 Enterprise Infrastructure, Metrics, and
Business Continuity Planning: Building and Sustaining the
Dynamic Enterprise, Chapter 8 Protecting people and
Information: Threats and Safeguards
Topics:
 H/S infrastructure
 Cloud computing: no Infrastructure at all
 IT success metrics
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Business continuity planning
Ethics
Privacy
Security
Case study
Group projects
Supplemental Readings:
 Real world cases
 Internet material
Grading:
Assignments
Case study
Final exams
50%
50%
Grades:
95-100
90-94
85-89
80-84
75-79
60-74
0-59
Incomplete work
A
AB+
B
BC
F
I