ISM 50 – Business Information Systems
Spring 2006
Lectures:
Listed as ISM 50-01 in course catalog
Course Control Number: 57467
Tuesdays and Thursdays 4 pm-5:45 pm
J. Baskin Engineering Room 152
Please
note: ISM 50-01 is the section that
students on campus who want a live instructor should enroll in. For
those living and working in the Silicon Valley region, a separate section of ISM 50 will be offered during Spring 2006 at
the UCSC
Silicon Valley Center in Mountain View, CA on Mondays from 5-8. This is called ISM 50-50 in the course catalog. The website for the
Again,
students who wish to take the course on campus with a live instructor should
enroll in ISM 50-01. Please email Prof.
John Musacchio johnm@soe.ucsc.edu if
you have questions about this.
Announcements:
The final exam study guide is available. [study guide]
The database project deadline has been extended to Tuesday 6/6/06.
The database project is posted. [Database
Project]
·
A tutorial on MS Access databases is available here:
¨ Reports
A study guide is available for the midterm. [Study Guide]
Here are the group assignments for the business paper [groups].
Here are the presentation assignments for the quarter [presentations].
Be sure to review business paper
guidelines.
Also look at the guide we have prepared for
citing sources properly.
Instructor:
Office: E2 Room 557
Office hours: 1-2 Tuesday and Thursday
Email: johnm@soe.ucsc.edu
Teaching Assistant:
Shivkumar Shivaji
Office: E2-486
Office hours: 2:30-3:30 Tuesday and Thursday
Email: shiv@soe.ucsc.edu
Course Description:
This course is an introductory survey of the use of Information Systems in business enterprises. We study how organizations can use information systems to improve efficiency and enable new ways of doing business. Students should gain an understanding of how information systems technologies are designed to support business applications. We will study examples both of how business needs can drive the development of new technology and also of how advances in technology can drive changes in business. Students should also gain a conceptual understanding of the basic building blocks of information system technology, such as database management, and network architecture. Such an understanding will enable them to identify existing technologies or conceptualize new technologies that meet particular business needs.
Reading Material:
Primary Textbook:
The
textbook is available at the Bay Tree bookstore.
Understanding Networked Applications: A First Course, by David G. Messerschmitt
.
Course Reader:
The reader will be available shortly at the Bay Tree Bookstore. The reader contains:
¨
Case Studies from the
¨ Chapters 1 and 2 from:
Management Information
Systems: Managing Information Technology in the Business
Syllabus:
Note: Hyperlinks to the lecture slides are found in the “Topics” column. Hyperlinks to the assignments are located in the “Assignments” column.
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Class # |
Date |
Topics |
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Assignments |
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1 |
4/4 |
Class Introduction |
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2 |
4/6 |
IT History and Background |
IT Management from
1960-2000 (reader pp 1-26) Chapter 1 - Section II of
O’Brien (reader pp 47-60) |
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3 |
4/11 |
Capital Budgeting
Terminology, Competing with IT |
Chapter 2 - Section I of
O’Brien (reader pp 69-77) |
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4 |
4/13 |
Competing with IT (Cont’d) |
Chapter 2 - Section II of
O’Brien (reader pp 78-90) |
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5 |
4/18 |
Business Processes, |
Frito-Lay
Case (93-103 + figs) |
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6 |
4/20 |
Information Access Terms |
Messerschmitt Ch 2.3
(38-50) Messerschmitt Ch 3.1-3.3
(59-82) |
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7 |
4/25 |
(cont’d) Slides Updated
4/26 |
Cisco Case (114-124 + figs) |
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8 |
4/27 |
E-commerce |
Messerschmitt
Ch 3.4-3.6 (83-98) Alibris Case (133-143 +
figs) |
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9 |
5/2 |
IT Concepts |
Messerschmitt Ch 4
(107-132) |
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10 |
5/4 |
Client Server Computing |
Messerschmitt Ch 5
(139-154) Sun-N Tier Case (145-164 +
figs) |
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11 |
5/9 |
MIDTERM BE 152 |
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12 |
5/11 |
Modularity and Layering |
Messerschmitt Ch 6
(157-190) |
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13 |
5/16 |
Computer and Comm. Industry |
Messerschmitt Ch 7
(198-226) |
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14 |
5/18 |
Database Management |
Messerschmitt Ch 11.1 -
11.2 (325-335) Messerschmitt Ch 15.1 -
15.2 (415-425) |
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15 |
5/23 |
Database Management Cont’d |
MySQL Database Case
(179-199 + figs) |
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16 |
5/25 |
Networking |
Messerschmitt Ch 18
(493-512) |
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17 |
5/30 |
Networking (Cont’d) |
Akamai Case (213-228 +
figs) |
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18 |
6/1 |
Applications and the
Organization Lecture |
Messerschmitt Ch 9
(273-289) |
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19 |
6/6 |
Application Architecture |
Messerschmitt Ch 10
(293-321) |
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20 |
6/8 |
Application Architecture
(Cont’d) Wrap Up, Final Review |
American Airlines Case
(165-171 + figs) |
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6/15 |
FINAL EXAM
Time:
8-11am BE 152 |
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Assessment
Click on any of the hyperlinks in the “item” column to learn more
about it.
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Item |
Due Date |
Value |
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Each Class |
10% |
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3 per qtr. |
5% |
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assigned |
5% |
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Weekly Assignments |
Each week |
10% |
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April 27 |
5% |
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Midterm |
May 9 |
15% |
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June 1 |
10% |
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June 8 |
20% |
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Final Exam |
June 15 |
20% |
Last updated by John Musacchio on
June 10, 2006