New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Computer and Information Science Department (CIS)
CIS677: Information System Principles, Spring 2001
Professor: Michael Bieber

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CIS677 Spring '01 Schedule & Reading List

Distance Sections - V3.1 - 2/18/2001

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Schedule

 

Getting Started

Read the course flow description.

Deadline: read Distance Learning Welcome Letter; get a WebBoard account under CIS677; order class materials

1/20 Introduction

Text: Zwass Ch. 1, 2, 8
Video: Lecture 1
Deadline: on-line biographical sketch; weekly discussion

1/27 Catch-up Week

2/3 Information Structure of Organizations

Text: Zwass Ch. 9, 10, 12, 13.1
Video: Lecture 2a
Deadline: weekly discussion

2/10 Information Structure of Organizations, Cont.

Text: Zwass Ch. 3; Zwass 1992 Ch. 12; Dekleva 2000
Video: Lecture 2b
Deadline: choose mentoring teams; weekly discussion; intermediate discussion evaluation form

2/17 On-Going IS Overview

Text: Zwass Ch. 18; Davis & Olsen Ch. 8
Article: Brynjolfsson & Hitt 1998
Deadline: weekly chunking (on the article); weekly discussion; individual review article #1 check

2/24 Systems Concepts

Text: Zwass 1992 Ch. 10; Alter 1996
Articles: Alter 1999; Malone et al. 1987
Video: Lecture 9
Deadline: weekly chunking; weekly discussion
Mentoring Team: Redentor Casanova, Hui Jiang, Qiang Lu, Sal Washah

3/3 Cognitive Aspects of Systems

Articles: Daft & Lengel 1986; Benbasat & Taylor 1983
Video: Lecture 8
Deadline: weekly chunking; weekly discussion; individual review article #1; intermediate discussion evaluation form; intermediate discussion record form
Mentoring Team: Brian Greenberg, Venkata Potluri, Amit Shah, Mike Trivedi

3/17 Decision Making/Decision Support Systems

Articles: Sprague 1980; Silver 1990
Additional Readings (no chunking required): Bhargava 1999; Powers 2000
Video: Lecture 3
Deadline: weekly chunking (on both main articles); weekly discussion; individual review article #2 check
Mentoring Team: Christine Mount, Rajneesh Shrimali, Shanker Udyaver, TC Wang

3/24 Human, Ethical and Societal Issues of IS

Text: Zwass Ch. 17
Articles: Shneiderman 2000; Smith & Hasnas 1999
Video: Lecture 4
Deadline:weekly chunking; weekly discussion
Mentoring Team: Jawwad Ali, Chetan Bhat, Lan Liu, Bob McGowan, Eileen Griffiths Tharp, Songmei Yu

3/31 IT and Organizational Structure & Virtual Organizations

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; weekly discussion (on both main articles)
Mentoring Team: Insoon Bartley, Dan Greenwood, David Kipkemboi, Karen Patten, Keke Shen

4/7 Strategic IS and Business Process Support

Articles: Clemons & Row 1991; El Sawy et al. 1999
Video: Lecture 6
Deadline: weekly chunking; weekly discussion; individual review article #2
Mentoring Team: Leah Fonseca, Kim Hacker, Diane Martin, Miguel Moron

4/14 Electronic Commerce

Text: Zwass Ch. 7
Articles: Bloth et al. 1996, Froehlich et al. 1999
Video: Lecture 10
Deadline: weekly chunking; weekly discussion; final discussion evaluation form; final discussion record form
Mentoring Team: Pranav Bajpei, Irene Chen, Suman Mamidipally, Ganesh Oak, Peichung Shih

4/21 - 5/9 Collaborative Exam Period

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, "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: 2/18/2001
last significant update: 1/31/2001 - Version 3 (shifted classes back a week)
last update to mentoring teams: 2/18/2001
last update to readings: 1/12/2001

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