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Welcome to the **Management Information Systems** class wiki. Throughout the course, we will work together to create a knowledge repository for use by all of the class's participants.

This wiki is intended to supplement [|Blackboard] rather than replace it. We will use Blackboard for 'official' purposes such as distributing announcements and the syllabus and posting grades. We will use the wiki as a forum for sharing what we have discovered about the the technologies we investigate. It will serve as an interactive repository for our evaluation, thoughts, and comments on how, where, and why these technologies might be useful. It is also a great place for you to post relevant information, articles, web-sites, etc, that you find related to the topics we are covering in the class.

**Course schedule and topics:**
Each topic that we will cover has its own wiki page. Most topics will last for a single class session, though some will extend across two classes. These pages briefly introduce each topic and the preparations you are expected to complete before class. Depending on the topic, these preparations generally include readings, exercises, and/or research.


 * Week 1:
 * Sunday 9/4 - Class introduction
 * Tuesday 9/6 - Better investment decisions about Information Systems


 * Week 2:
 * Sunday 9/11 - Does IT Matter?
 * Tuesday 9/13 - IT infrastructure


 * Week 3:
 * Sunday 9/18 - IS Governance
 * Tuesday 9/20 - Enterprise Systems I: Supply Chain Management Systems (SCM)


 * Week 4:
 * Sunday 9/25 - Enterprise Systems II: Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRM)
 * Tuesday 9/27 - Enterprise Systems III: Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) case study


 * Week 5:
 * Sunday 10/2 - Systems Development Lifecycles (SDLC's)
 * Tuesday 10/4 - Exam #1, in class exam, 80 minutes, closed book


 * Week 6:
 * Sunday 10/9 - Requirements gathering and analysis I
 * Tuesday 10/11 - Requirements gathering and analysis II


 * Week 7:
 * Sunday 10/16 - Models for acquiring IS capabilities
 * Tuesday 10/18 - Introduction to Data Management


 * Week 8:
 * Sunday 10/23 - Data Modeling I
 * Tuesday 10/25 - Data Modeling II


 * Week 9:
 * Sunday 10/30 - The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Management Systems
 * Tuesday 11/1 - "Big Data" -- Data warehousing


 * Week 10:
 * Sunday 11/6 - No class - Eid al Adha
 * Tuesday 11/8 - No class - Eid al Adha


 * Week 11:
 * Sunday 11/13 - "Big Data" -- Business Analytics
 * Tuesday 11/15 - Exam 2, in class exam, 80 minutes, closed book


 * Week 12:
 * Sunday 11/20 - Information security I - a managerial perspective
 * Tuesday 11/22 - Information security II - information security technologies


 * Week 13:
 * Sunday 11/27 - Models for evaluating emerging technologies - Digital Media
 * Tuesday 11/29 - Mobile computing


 * Week 14:
 * Sunday 12/4 - Cloud computing -- guest lecture by Professor Majd Sakr
 * Tuesday 12/6 - Emerging IT for education


 * Week 15:
 * Sunday 12/11 - Social computing
 * Tuesday 12/13 - Course wrap-up and review for final exam

Assignments:
There will be four homework assignments in the course, each worth 7.5% of your overall course grade.
 * Assignment 1 (due Sunday September 11, or Tuesday, September 27, depending on option selected)
 * Assignment 2 (due Tuesday, October 18)
 * Assignment 3 (due Thursday, November 3, 4:00pm, hard-copy delivered to Prof. Monroe's office - CMUQ 2122)
 * Assignment 4 (due Sunday, December 11)

In addition to the four assignments, students in the course are expected to add at least eight entries to the 70-451 Library over the course of the semester. Details and expectations are provided on the home page for the 70-451 wiki library.

Syllabus:
The most up-to-date version of the syllabus is available here:

Ground rules for using the wiki:
I encourage students to add material to the wiki and edit material on the wiki as appropriate. That said, there are various places on the wiki that I would prefer you not edit such as the topic overviews, class preparations, and assignments. I (Bob Monroe) will try to clearly mark those places that should not be edited (such as this page). I will post all of the 'official' course documents in read-only format on Blackboard. I will also try to make these assignments available on the wiki for everybody's convenience. If the wiki's version and Blackboards version of a document disagree, consider the Blackboard document the definitive copy.