CIS 850 - Management of Informaiton Systems

Core for both MBA
Prerequisite: CIS 300
Available in: Fall, Summer
Credits: 3
Type: Information Systems

Course Description

Information technology (IT) and information resource management issues and trends from user-manager perspective; impact of IT on managers, organizations, competition, and society; managers role in developing, acquiring and managing information resources.

Course Objectives

The goal of this course is to make the MBA students with an advanced study of IT trends, issues, and processes that will prepare them to be effective user-managers of IT in the e-world. To assist in achieving this goal, the following general objectives will provide an understanding of information systems concepts, including:

1. recent advances and current trends in information systems
2. managerial use of information systems
3. applications of IT (e.g., ERP, CRM, SCM, data warehousing, data mining, EIS, EDI, E-Business, B2B, Intranets)
4. computer hardware, software, and telecommunications
5. alternative ways of acquiring information systems
6. the IT vision and architecture
7. the management of IT in an organization
8. information systems politics and ethics
9. global information systems