Management Information System Course Outline

Course Credit: 3 Total Hours: 48 hrs ( 24 sessions)

Objective:
To provide students with knowledge of basic principles and concepts of Management
Information system and give them knowledge about effective utilization of information
systems, essential for creating competitive firms, managing global corporations, and
providing useful products and services to customers.

Methodology: MIS Theory, Case Study, Individual Presentation, Group Work

Course Content:
Sr. Topic
No
1 Information Systems
2 How Businesses Use
Information Systems
3 IS, Organizations and
Strategy
4 Information Technology
Infrastructure
5 Foundations of Business
Intelligence: Databases and
Information Management
6 Telecommunications, the
Internet & Wireless
Technology
7 Securing Information
systems
8 Enterprise applications
9 E-Commerce
8 Enhancing Management
Decision Making
9 Building and managing
systems
Text
Ch No
-- What is an Information System(IS) Ch 1
-- Dimensions of IS
-- Role of IS in Business Today
-- Business Processes and Information systems Ch 2
--Types of Systems in Organizations, Systems with
a Functional Perspective, Systems with a Constituency
Perspective
-- Enterprise Applications like Supply Chain
Management, Customer Relationship Management and
Knowledge Management
-- Organization Features Ch 3
--Porters Competitive Force Model
-- IS & Competitive Advantage
-- Evolution of IT Infrastructure Ch 5
-- IT Infrastructure Components , Hardware, Software
-- Management Issues
-- Database Approach to data management Ch 6
-- Designing Databases, Normalization and Entity
Relationship diagrams
-- Database Trends: Data Warehousing , Data Mining,
Business Intelligence
--Computer Networks Ch 7
--Communication Networks
-- Internet
--Wireless Technology
--Computer Crime Ch 8
--Technologies & Tools
Ch 9
Ch 10
-- Decision Support System Ch 12
-- Group Decision System
-- Executive Support System
-- Business Process Reengineering, Process Improvement Ch 13
-- Overview of Systems Development
-- Alternative System Building Approaches: Traditional
Systems Lifecycle, Prototyping
Books:

Text Book:
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm
by Laudon and Laudon 10th Edition

Reference Books:

1. Management Information Systems for the Information Age

by Stephen Haag, Maeve Cummings, Amy Phillips – McGraw Hill Co.
2. Management Information Systems
by Waman Jawadekar – Mc Graw Hill
3. Business Driven Technology
by Stephen Haag, Paige Baltzan, Amy Phillips – McGraw Hill Co.
4. Information Systems Today
by Leonard Jessup & Joseph Valacich - Prentice Hall of India
5. Management Information Systems
by James A. O’Brien – Galgotia
6. Analysis and Design of Information Systems
by James A. Senn – Tata McGraw Hill
7. Information Systems for Modern Management
by Robert Murdick, Joel Ross, James Glaggeit – Prentice-Hall of India
8. Managing with Information by Jerome Kanter – Prentice Hall of India