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Week 1
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01-Sep |
Orientation Session |
Alter, Chapter 1 |
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03-Sep |
Business Before the
Computer |
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Discussion Session |
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Part
I: Business Processes and Technology |
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Week 2 |
08-Sep |
Early Computing |
Alter, Chapters 2 (all)
Alter, Chapter 3 (pages 85-94)Haigh, Thomas. "Inventing Information Systems: The
Systems Men and the Computer"
(On-line) |
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10-Sep |
Business Processes |
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Discussion Session |
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Week 3 |
15-Sep |
Case Study: Wal-Mart |
Alter, Chapter 2 (pages 94-118)
Hammer, Michael. "Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate,"
Harvard Business Review 64:4, July-August 1990. (Oncourse)
Davenport, Thomas H. 1995. The Fad That Forgot People. Fast Company 1
(1):70.
(On-line) |
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17-Sep |
Business Process Reengineering |
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Discussion Session |
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Week 4 |
22-Sep |
Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)
& Integration |
Anonymous, "Executive Guide: Enterprise Resources Planning," Darwin
Magazine, 2002.
(Online)
Koch, Christopher. "The
Integration Nightmare: Sounding the Alarm", CIO Magazine, November
15, 1996. (Online)
Davenport, Thomas H. "Putting the Enterprise into the Enterprise System,"
Harvard Business Review 76:4, July-August, 1998. (oncourse),
also without graphics
(Online)
Bass, Alison. "Cigna's Self-Inflicted Wounds", CIO Magazine, March
15, 2003. (Online)
Koch, Christopher. "Enterprise Software Upgrades: Less Pain, More Gain,"
CIO Magazine, November 15, 2002.
(Online) |
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24-Sep |
Perspectives on Automation |
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Discussion Session |
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Part II: Managing Information / Informing Managers
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Week 5 |
29-Sep |
The Information Concept |
Alter. Parts of Chapter 3 (pages 118-131
only) & Chapter 5 (201-208 only). Haigh, Thomas. "How the Computer
Became Information Technology." Unpublished Draft.
(online) Levy, Steve. "A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge", in Tom
Forester, Computers
in the Human Context, MIT Press, 1991. Pages 318-326. (Oncourse)
Henry Mintzberg, "The Manager's Job:
Folklore and Fact," Harvard Business Review 53:3, July-August
1975. (Oncourse)
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01-Oct |
What Managers Do
& Why It's Hard to Help Them Do It |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 6 |
06-Oct |
Origins of Database Technology |
Alter, Chapter 4 (Background for
most people)
Haigh, Thomas "A Veritable Bucket of Facts: Origins of the Database
Management System" in Proceedings of the Second Conference on the History
and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems (Information
Today: Medford, 2003).
(Online) "Executive guide:
Data Warehouse", Darwin Magazine.
(Online) Paul, Lauren
Gibbons. "Anatomy of a Failure", CIO Magazine, November 15, 1997.
(Online)
Villano, Matt. "Data Gets a Makeover", CIO Magazine, October 1, 1999.
(Online) |
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08-Oct |
Data Warehousing |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 7 |
13-Oct |
Knowledge Management |
Berkman, Erick. "When Bad Things Happen to Good Ideas", Darwin Magazine,
April 2001.
(Online) Davenport, Thomas H. "Saving IT's Soul: Human-Centered
Information Managment," Harvard Business Review, March-April, 1994.
(Oncourse)
Orlikowski, W. J. (1992), "Learning from Notes:
Organizational issues in groupware implementation," In J. Turner & R. Kraut
(Eds.) CSCW'92 Proceedings of the conference on computer-supported
cooperative work (pp. 362-369). New York: ACM Press. (Oncourse) |
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15-Oct |
Knowledge Management Case Studies |
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Discussion Section |
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Part III: Careers, Culture, and the Computer Department
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Week 8
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20-Oct |
Midterm Examination |
Alter, Chapter 13 |
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22-Oct |
Security Issues
Guest Lecture: Mark S. Bruhn
IU Chief IT Security and Policy Officer & Associate Director
Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 9 |
27-Oct |
(no class) |
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, "What
Holds the Modern Company Together", Harvard Business Review,
November-December 1996. (Oncourse) Van Mannen, J. (1991): The Smile Factory:
Work at
Disneyland. In: Frost, P.J., L.E. Moore, M.R. Louis, C.C. Lundberg and J.
Martin (eds.): Reframing Organizational Culture. London: Sage, 58-76. (Oncourse)
Glaser, Perry. "The Gulf Between", CIO Magazine, January 15, 2000.
(On-line) |
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29-Oct |
Organizational Culture and Computing |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 10 |
03-Nov |
The Information Systems
Department & IT Careers
Guest Speaker: Rebecca R. Hendricks of
Mirror
Consulting |
Alter, Chapter 11 (to page 458
inclusive) Ingevaldson,
Paul. "It's Not Your IT Portfolio -- It's Theirs", CIO Magazine,
November 15, 2002.
(Online)
Datz, Todd. "Portfolio Management - How to Do it Right", CIO Magazine,
May 1, 2003.
(Online)
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05-Nov |
The Information Systems
Department & IT Careers part II |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 11
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10-Nov |
The Information Systems
Department & IT Careers part III
Guest Speaker: Steve Ehrlich |
Alter, Chapter 12
& last part of Chapter 11 (page 459 onward) Connelly, Julie. "Youthful
Attitudes, Sobering Realities," New York Times, October 28, 2003. (Oncourse) |
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12-Nov |
Why Projects Fall Apart |
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Discussion Section |
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Part IV: IT and Strategic Transformation
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Week 12 |
17-Nov |
IT
Careers & the Pharmaceutical Industry
Guest Speaker: John Brooks, Director, Information Technology and
Management, Baxter Pharmaceutical Solutions |
Alter, Chapter 6
Shapiro, Carl and Hal Varian,
"Versioning: The Smart Way to Sell Information", Harvard Business Review,
November-December 1998: 106-114. (Oncourse) |
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19-Nov |
Information as a Product |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 13 |
24-Nov |
Guest Lecture: The Role of
Information Management at 1stBooks
Herb Senft, 1stBooks
Deadline for paper drafts to receive comments (optional) |
No reading (work on papers, get a head start on next week, eat turkey) |
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26-Nov |
No Class -- Thanksgiving
Break |
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No Discussion |
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Week 14 |
01-Dec |
Networks and Markets |
Evans, Philip B, and Thomas S
Wurster. "Strategy and the New Economics of Information." Harvard
Business Review, no. 5 (1997).
(Oncourse)
Shapiro, Carl and Hal Varian,
part of "Ch7: Networks and Positive Feedback" from Information Rules: A
Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. Boston, MA: Harvard Business
School Press, 1999. Pages 173-203. (Oncourse). |
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03-Dec |
Networks and Markets II |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 15 |
08-Dec |
The Productivity Paradox
Term papers due in class. |
Strassmann, Paul A. "Will Big
Spending on Computers Guarantee Profitability," Datamation, February
1997.
(Online)
Carr, Nicholas G., "IT Doesn't Matter." Harvard
Business Review, May 2003. (Oncourse)
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10-Dec |
Is IT Dead or Just Resting? |
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Discussion Section |
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Week 16 |
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Final Examination |
10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Fri., December 19 |
