New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Computer and Information Science Department (CIS)
CIS677: Information System Principles, Fall 2000
Professor: Michael Bieber

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CIS677 Fall '00 Schedule & Reading List

Wednesday On-Campus Sections - V1.01 - 9/3/2000

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Notes

*** The full reading list is at the bottom of this schedule.

*** Read the text chapters before the articles, and the articles before the additional readings.

*** Additional readings are mandatory, but do not require chunking.

*** If you can, watch the video after reading the text chapters. It depends on your own "cognitive style" whether to read the other articles before watching the video.

*** Chunking on each week's readings are due during the week *before* the date shown. See the chunking assignment for details.

*** Always bring the weekly readings to class!

*** Assumed Knowledge: Zwass Chapters 4-6

Schedule

 

9/6 Orientation

Deadline: get a WebBoard account under CIS677

9/13 Introduction

Text: Zwass Ch. 1, 2
Video: Lecture 1
Deadline: turn in a photograph with your name; on-line biographical sketch

9/20 Information Structure of Organizations

Text: Alter 1996; Zwass Ch. 8, 9
Video: Lecture 2a
Deadline: choose mentoring teams

9/27 Information Structure of Organizations, Cont.

Text: Zwass Ch. 12
Video: Lecture 2b
Article: Brynjolfsson & Hitt 1998
Deadline: weekly chunking (on the article); choose semester project groups

10/4 Decision Making/Decision Support Systems

Text: Zwass Ch. 10
Articles: Sprague 1980; Silver 1990
Additional Readings (no chunking required): Bhargava 1999; Powers 2000
Video: Lecture 3
Deadline: weekly chunking (on both articles); individual review article check; semester project topic check

10/11 Human, Ethical and Societal Issues of IS

Text: Zwass Ch. 17
Articles: Shneiderman 2000; Smith & Hasnas 1999
Video: Lecture 4
Deadline:weekly chunking

10/18 Strategic IS and Business Process Support

Text: Zwass 3, 13.1
Articles: Clemons & Row 1991; El Sawy et al. 1999
Video: Lecture 6
Deadline: weekly chunking; semester project abstract

10/25 Information Value & Cognitive Aspects of Systems

Text: Davis & Olsen Ch. 7, 8
Articles: Daft & Lengel 1986; Benbasat & Taylor 1983
Optional Reading (no chunking required): Davenport 1992
Videos: Lecture 7, Lecture 8
Deadline: weekly chunking

11/1 Systems Concepts

Text: Zwass 1992 Ch. 10
Articles: Malone et al. 1987; Alter 1999
Video: Lecture 9
Deadline: weekly chunking; individual article review

11/8 Electronic Commerce

Text: Zwass Ch. 7; Dekleva 2000
Articles: Bloth et al. 1996, Froehlich et al. 1999
Video: Lecture 10
Deadline: weekly chunking

11/15 IT and Organizational Structure & Virtual Organizations

Text: Zwass 1992 Ch. 12
Articles: Hitt & Brynjolfsson 1997; Mowshowitz 1994
Additional Short Articles (no chunking required): Walsham 1994; Mowshowitz 1994b; Chellappa et al. 1997
Video: Lecture 11
Deadline: weekly chunking

11/22 and 11/29 Collaborative Midterm Period

12/6 Global IS

Text: Zwass: 18
Articles: Ives et al. 1993; Davidson et al. 1999
Video: Lecture 12
Deadline: weekly chunking; 3-6 page semester project summary on-line

12/13 Project Presentations

*** mandatory attendance
Deadline: chunking on project summaries; written semester project report; final chunking evaluation form

12/20 Project Presentations

*** mandatory attendance
Deadline: chunking on project summaries; final chunking record form

Reading List

Alter, Steven, "Basic Ideas for Understanding Information Systems," in Information Systems: A Management Perspective, 2nd Edition, Benjamin Cummings, 1996, 1-9.

Alter, Steven, "A General, Yet Useful Theory of Information Systems," Communications of the Association for Information Systems 1, Article 13, 1999.

Benbasat, I., and Taylor, R. N., "Behavioral Aspects of Information Processing for the Design of Management Information Systems," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, July-August 1983, Volume SMC-12(4), 439-450.

Bhargava, Hemant, Sridhar, Suresh and Herrick, Craig, "Beyond Spreadsheets: Tools for Building Decision Support Systems," IEEE Computer 32(3), 1999, 31-39.

Bloth, Michael, Pigneur Yves and Segev, Arie, Bloth M., Pigneur V., and Segev A. (1996), "Leveraging Electronic Commerce for Competitive Advantage: A Business Value Framework," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on EDI-OIS, Bled, Slovenia, June 1996.
[on-line: http://inforge.unil.ch/yp/pub/road_EC/ec.htm]

Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hitt, Lorin, "Beyond the Productivity Paradox," Communications of the ACM 41(8), 1998, 49-55.

Clemons, Eric K. and Row, Michael C., "Information Technology at Rosenbluth Travel: Competitive Advantage in A Rapidly Growing Global Service Company," Journal of MIS 8(2), 1991, 53-79.

Daft, R. L., and Lengel, R. H., "Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design," Management Science 32(5), 1986, 554-571.

Davenport, Thomas, Eccles, Robert and Prusak, Laurence, Information Politics, Sloan Management Review 34(1), 1992, 53-65.

Davidson, Robert, Vogel, Doug, Harris, Roger and Jones, Noel, "Technology Leapfrogging in Developing Countries - An Inevitable Luxury?," The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries 1, Article 5, 1999.
[on-line: http://www.unimas.my/fit/roger/EJISDC/vol1/v1d5.pdf]

Davis, Gordon, B. and Olson, Margrethe, H., Management Information Systems: Conceptual Foundations, Structure and Development, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1985.

Dekleva, Sasa, "Electronic Commerce: A Half Empty Glass?," Communications of the Association for Information Systems 3, Article 18, 2000.

El Sawy, Omar, Malhotra, Arvind, Gosain, Sanjay and Young, Kerry, "IT-Intensive Vlaue Innovation in the Electronic Economy: Insights from Marshall Industries, " MIS Quarterly 23(3) 1999, 305-335.

Froehlich, Garry, Hoover, H. James, Liew, Wendy and Sorenson, Paul, "Application Framework Issues When Evolving Business Applications for Electronic Commerce," Information Systems 24(6), 1999, 457-473.

Hitt, Lorin and Brynjolfsson, Erik, Information Technology and Internal Firm Organization: An Exploratory Analysis, Journal of Management Information Systems 14(2), Fall 1997, 81-101.

Ives, Blake, Jarvenpaa, Sirrka and Mason, "Global Business Drivers: Aligning Information Technology to Global Business Strategy," IBM Systems Journal 32(1), 1993, 143-161.

Malone, Thomas, Yates, Joanne and Benjamin, Robert I., "Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies," Communications of the ACM 30(6), 1987, 484-497.

Mowshowitz, Abbe, "Virtual Organization: A Vision of Management in the Information Age," The Information Society 10, 1994, 267-288.

Power, Daniel J., "Web-Based and Model-Driven Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Issues," Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, Long Beach, CA, August 10-13, 2000.

Shneiderman, Ben, "Universal Usability," Communications of the ACM 43(5), 2000, 84-91.

Silver, Mark, "Decision Support Systems: Directed and Non-Directed Change," Information Systems Research 1(1), March 1990, 47-70.

Smith, H. Jeff and Hasnas, John, "Ethics and Information Systems: The Corporate Domain," MIS Quarterly 23(1), March 1999, 109-127.

Sprague, Ralph H. Jr., "A Framework for the Development of Decision Support Systems" MIS Quarterly 4(4), 1980, 1-26.

Walsham, Geoff, "Virtual Organization: An Alternative View," The Information Society 10, 1994, 289-292.

Zwass, Vladimir, Foundations of Information Systems, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, Boston, 1998.

Zwass, Vladimir, Management Information Systems, W. C. Brown Publishers, 1992.

last minor update: 9/3/2000
last significant update: 8/7/2000
last update to readings: 8/7/2000

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