BA471 Management Information Systems

The following number-to-letter grade scale will be used for calculating the final letter grade:

F < 55.00
55.00 <= C- < 60.00
60.00 <= C < 65.00
65.00 <= C+ < 70.00
70.00 <= B- < 75.00
75.00 <= B < 80.00
80.00 <= B+ < 85.00
85.00 <= A- < 90.00
A >= 90.00

!!! Deadlines, exam dates, submission dates and presentation dates stated in this syllabus are firm and will not be altered to accommodate the schedules of individual students !!!

Students with Disabilities

Oregon State University is committed to providing equal opportunity to higher education for academically qualified students without regard to a disability. Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact the Office of Students with Disabilities (SSD) to learn more about their rights and responsibilities. Students with documented disabilities who may need accommodations, who have any emergency medical information the instructor should know of, or who need special arrangements in the event of evacuation, should make an appointment with the instructor as early as possible, no later than the first week of the term.

Academic Honesty

Students are expected to uphold the OSU standard of conduct for students relating to academic dishonesty. Academic dishonesty is defined as an intentional act of deception in which a student seeks to claim credit for the work or effort of another person or uses unauthorized materials or fabricated information in any academic work

Students assume full responsibility for the content and integrity of the academic work they submit. The guiding principle of academic integrity is that a student's submitted work, examinations, reports, and projects must be that student's own work for individual assignments, and the group's own work for group assignments/projects. Students are guilty of academic dishonesty if they:

Use or obtain unauthorized materials or assistance in any academic work; i.e., cheating.

Falsify or invent any information regarded as cheating by the instructor; i.e., fabrication.

Give unauthorized assistance to other students; i.e., assisting in dishonesty.

Represent the work of others as their own; i.e., plagiarism.

Modify, without instructor approval, an examination, paper, record or report for the purpose of obtaining additional credit; i.e., tampering.

The penalty for academic dishonesty is severe. Any student guilty of academic dishonesty may be subject to receive a failing grade for the exam, assignment, quiz, or class participation exercise as deemed appropriate by the instructor. In addition, the penalty could also imply that the student receive a failing grade for the course and be reported to the University officials at the College of Business, and the officials at the Office of Student Affairs.

For details on the OSU policies on academic honesty, refer to http://www.oregonstate.edu/admin/stucon/achon.htm

Reitsma classes and office hours

Date	MIS Topic	Presentations & Reports	Texts
Week 1
Apr. 2	Welcome & course overview
Apr. 4	Information Systems		Stair & Reynolds, Ch. 1
Week 2
Apr. 9	Information Systems		Principia Cybernetica Web (1992) What is Systems Theory? System Definition David Slaven's Entropy Page
Apr. 11	Productivity paradox		Stair & Reynolds, Ch. 2 Avison, D., Gregor, S., Wilson, D. (2006) Managerial IT Unconsciousness. Communications of the ACM. 49. 89-93. Brynjolfsson & Hitt (1998) Beyond the Productivity Paradox; Communications of the ACM. 41. 49-55 (PDF has 18 pages).
Week 3
Apr. 16	Concept maps
Apr. 18		Business Intelligence presentation Geographic Information Systems presentation *IT Outsourcing presentation	Hoffman, T., Thibodeau, P. (2005) Working Through the Pain: Lessons on How to Succeed at Offshoring; ComputerWorld, Dec.
Week 4
Apr. 23	Hardware & binary systems		Stair & Reynolds, Ch. 3
Apr. 25	Hardware & binary systems Software: operating systems & programming languages	Business Intelligence concept map Geographic Information Systems concept map *IT Outsourcing concept map	Stair & Reynolds, Ch. 3 Stair & Reynolds, Ch. 4 Thibodeau, P. (2003) Far From Legacy, but Far More Challenged; ComputerWorld, July 7, 4-6.
Week 5
Apr. 30	Software: operating systems & programming languages		Prechelt (2000) An Empirical Comparison of Seven Programming Languages; IEEE Computer, 33, 23-29.
May 2		Moore's Law presentation DBMS Market presentation *Oracle vs. PeopleSoft presentation
Week 6
May 7	MidTerm Exam (sample questions)
May 9	Open Source Software	Moore's Law concept map DBMS Market concept map *Oracle vs. PeopleSoft concept map	Ricadela, A. (2005) Change Agents. TechnologyWeek; Dec. 19. Hall, M (2005) Law and Order on the Open Source-Range; Computerworld, Dec. 2. Wheatly, M. (2004) The Myths of Open Source; CIO.
Week 7
May 14	Tele- & network communications. Guest lecture by Dr. Raja, COB		Stair & Reynolds, Ch. 6
May 16		Disaster prevention and recovery presentation RFID presentation *IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, HP & Apple presentation	ComputerWorld Disaster Recovery Center
Week 8
May 21	Information Systems Governance & Auditing. Guest lecture by Dr. Byron Marshall, COB (use your COB login or "ONID\your_onid_login" to access.)		Anthes, G. (2004) Model Mania: ComputerWorld; March 8; pp. 41-45.
May 23	How the Web works: HTTP, XML & Web services	Disaster prevention and recovery concept map RFID concept map *IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems & HP concept map
Week 9
May 28 Memorial Day (observed)
May 30		Customer Relations Mgt. (CRM) presentation W3C presentation *XBRL presentation
Week 10
Jun. 4		Digital Asset Management presentation OSS business models presentation Acquiring a Web presence presentation
Jun. 6	Q & A	Customer Relations Mgt. (CRM) concept map W3C concept map XBRL concept map Digital Asset Management* concept map OSS business models concept map Acquiring a Web presence concept map
Week 11
Jun. 12 6:00-7:50 PM	Final Exam (sample questions) (in regular classroom)
* Topic taken

Course Component	Grade Contribution
Midterm exam	30%
Team research presentation (team grade)	20%
Team research concept map (team grade)	10%
Final exam	35%
Peer evaluation grade (own team only; collected during final exam).	5%

Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Course components

Texts

Course Schedule (presentations, deadlines, deliveries and exams in italics)

Grading Scheme

Students with Disabilities

Academic Honesty