Session 4 Agenda

Session Date Topic Resource Materials/

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4

Feb  17

 Finish telecommunications lecture material for Topic #4: "Organizational Technological Infrastructure"

Topic discussion #5: "System Development Life Cycle and Prototyping" 

 

5:30-6:15pm

Finish telecommunications lecture material for Topic #4: "Organizational Technological Infrastructure"     

6:15-7:00pm

Case Discussion on International Multifoods     Objectives 1

7:45-8:00pm

Break    

6:45-7:45pm

 Topic discussion #5: "System Development Life Cycle and Prototyping"   Objectives 2

8:00-9:00pm

In-class exercise: Lab #2

Oral reports on Lab #2

 

  Objectives 3

9:00-10:00pm

Topic discussion #6: "Decision Support Systems"    Objectives 4

 

 

Learning Objectives


 


Upon completion of this session, students should be able to:

Objectives 1: 

Apply knowledge of strategic information systems to a real world case, namely, International Multifoods

Argue whether the Rennaisance system is or is not a strategic information system 

Determine future managerial directions for CIO

Objectives 2: 

Be able to describe the typical origins of ideas for new systems

Compare and contrast the methodology of prototyping with that of the traditional systems development life cycle (SDLC)

Describe at a high level the characteristics of systems tools and techniques like data flow diagramming, object-oriented design, etc.

Define and discuss details for each of the five stages of the SDLC

Describe where systems err and how managers can avoid this problem

Objectives 3: 

Define a responsive strategy to a competitive threat to Dell Computer