Management Information System

Course Title: Management Information System

Course No: IT226

Nature of the Course: THEORY

Semester: 7

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

Foundations of Information Systems in business, Foundation concepts: The components of IS, Competing with Information Technology, Using Information Technology for strategic Advantage, Managing Data Resources, e-business Systems, Supporting Decision Making.

Course Objectives

This module aims to provide students with a background on the use and advantages of information systems in organizations with a focus on managerial aspects of MIS to promote an awareness of the economic, social, and ethical implications of such systems on society and IT professionals.

Course Contents

1. Foundations of Information Systems (IS) in Business

7 hrs

1.1. The real world of information system and information system

1.2. The fundamental Roles of IS in Business

1.3. The role of e-business in business

1.4. Types of Information Systems

Operations support systems

Management support systems

Other classifications of IS

1.5. Managerial Challenges of Information Technology (IT)

Success and Failure with IT

Developing IS solutions

Challenges and Ethics of IT

Challenges of IT careers

The IS function

2. Foundation concepts: The components of IS

7 hrs

2.1. System concepts: A foundation: System, Feedback and Control

2.2. System characteristics

2.3. Components of ISs

2.4. Information system resources

People, hardware, software, data, Network

2.5. Information System Activities

Input, Process, Storage of data, Output of Information Products, Control

2.6. Recognizing Information systems

3. Competing with Information Technology

7 hrs

3.1. Fundamentals of Strategic Advantage

3.2. Strategic IT

3.3. Competitive Forces and strategies

3.4. Strategic Uses of Information Technology

3.5. Building a customer-focused business

3.6. The value chain and strategic IS

3.7. Value chain examples

4. Using Information Technology for strategic Advantage

7 hrs

4.1. Strategic Uses of IT

4.2. Reengineering Business Processes

4.3. The role of IT

4.4. Becoming an Agile company

4.5. Creating a virtual company

4.6. Building a knowledge-creating company

4.7. Knowledge management systems

5. Managing Data Resources

7 hrs

5.1. Date resource management

5.2. Types of databases: operational, distributed, external, hypermedia databases

5.3. Data warehousing and data mining

5.4. The database management approach

Database management system, database interrogation, database maintenance, application development

6. e-business Systems

7 hrs

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Cross-functional enterprise applications

6.3. Enterprise application integration

6.4. Transaction processing systems

The transaction processing cycle

6.5. Enterprise collaboration systems: tools for enterprise collaboration

6.6. Functional business systems

Introduction, IT in business

Marketing systems: interactive marketing, targeted marketing, sales force automation

Manufacturing systems: computer-integrated manufacturing

Human resource systems: HRM and Internet, HRM and corporate Intranets

Accounting Systems: online Accounting systems

Financial management systems

7. Supporting Decision Making

6 hrs

7.1. Decision support in business

7.2. Information, decisions, and management

7.3. Information quality

7.4. Decision structure, decision support trends, decision support systems

7.5. Online analytical processing: OLAP examples

7.6. Using decision support systems: what-if analysis, sensitivity analysis, goal-seeking analysis, optimization analysis, data mining for decision support

Text Books

1.Management Information systems, James A O'brien, George M Marakas, Ramesh Behl, Tenth Edition, McGraw Hill education.
2.Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon, "Management Information System, Managing the Digital Firm", Ninth Edition, Pearson Education

Reference Books

1.Management information systems, Waman S Jawadekar, fourth edition, Tata McGraw Hill
2.Information technology for management, Ramesh Behl, Tata McGraw Hill

Notes:

This syllabus follows the official BIM curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university's published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.https://itcollegenepal.com/bachelor-in-information-management-syllabus/

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