INSS 530

NAVY COLLEGE-ROTA SPAIN

TERM 2: 2000/01

INSTRUCTOR: WILLIAM KELLER

TELEPHONE: 727-2917

E-MAIL: wkeller@faculty.ed.umuc.edu

Management Information Systems 4^th edition by James O'Brien, McGraw-Hill, 1999.

The Portable MBA 3^rd edition by Robert Bruner et al, John Wiley, 1998

All graduate prerequisite classes or permission of instructor.

This class presents general concepts of management information systems and introduces various functional areas of organizations and their uses of information technology. The scale of information systems ranges from hand held and individual desktops to work groups, enterprise systems and global networks. The types of information systems discussed will include financial and operational systems, decision support systems and strategic planning models. Other topics will include costing, justification and configuration of an organization's information systems, and ways that networks are changing traditional channels of commerce, Supplemental readings will provide a more complete picture of the business practices and managerial concerns which information systems work to support.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:

1. Identify and understand the roles that information play in organizations.
2. Recognize the basic concepts that will be the foundation for subsequent MIS courses, including user requirements, information flows and the nature of information systems.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the basic techniques and fundamental skills needed to describe and specify the structures and applications of information systems.
4. Analyze different organizational situations where information technology is involved, and make recommendations for improvements in operations and in management information.
5. Analyze the impact of advances in information technology on organizations.
6. Demonstrate familiarity with the literature in information systems.

Case Studies and Problems- 20%

Group Case Study and Project- 20%

Article Presentation- 10%

Midterm- 25%

Final- 25%

Grade Determination: A- 90-100, B -80-89, C- 70-79, F- less than 70

Tentative Course Outline

 Dates

Topic

Chapters¹

10/21

Group Assignments

OB 1,2,3

10/22

Case Selections and Company Selections

OB 4,5,6,7

11/4

IT business Applications (PM)

OB 7-10

11/5

Article Presentations (PM)

OB 11-12

11/18

Business Applications (PM)

MBA 7-12

11/19

Case Presentations (PM)

OB 13-15

12/9

Review (PM)

MBA 13, 15

12/10

Group Presentations (PM)

¹OB means O'Brien text and MBA means the Portable MBA

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