Professor
Bieber
IS Department
College of Computing
Sciences
New Jersey Institute of
Technology
CIS677 introduces the field of Management Information Systems&endash;the study of how people and organizations should use information technologies effectively. We examine the major areas in the field, analyzing the major issues, trends and problems. We survey the role of information systems in organizations and how they relate to organizational objectives and organizational structure. We discuss basic concepts such as the systems point of view, the organization of a system, the nature of information and information flows, as well as how people process information and related cognitive concepts. We also examine various types of information system applications.
Graduate, Research Focus: As a graduate-level course, which is part of the pre-Ph.D. core (as well as a required course for those stopping with their Masters degrees), CIS677 highlights both the current and the base foundation research literature in the field of information systems. This means that we shall be analyzing current trends and events in light of the research that supports and explains them. Many of the articles are "assumed knowledge" for further graduate study at NJIT. The reading load is heavy, and it will have a research-oriented flavor.
The qualifier will use a combination of readings and concepts from the papers students read in their own section of CIS677, and those in the core CIS677 reading list:
This page: http://web.njit.edu/~bieber/CIS677/