Mgmt 386

Class Schedule

August 14
  • Discussion of Course Policies ( Handout #1)
  • Why do managers need to understand information technology (IT)?
August 16
  • IT systems versus the technologies used to develop those systems
  • Phases in the IT system development process and the role of the business person in that process
  • Reading Assignment: Another Trip to Hell (stories of IT system development disasters due to bad business decisions)
August 19
  • Phases in the IT system development process, continued
  • Discussion of Reading Assignment (business and technology errors that cause IT system development projects to fail)
August 21
  • Discussion of Reading Assignment (business and technology errors that cause IT system development projects to fail), continued
August 23 August 26

August 28

  • Building a Web page, continued
    • Part 2: HTML commands (due in class August 30)
August 30
  • Building a Web page, continued
    • Part 3: Viewing and editing your web page
September 2: Labor Day holiday

September 4

September 6

  • "Topic of the Week" (1) due
  • Telecommunications, continued:
    • telecommunications media, continued
    • telecommunications channels

September 9

  • Enterprise collaboration systems:
    • electronic communication tools
    • electronic conferencing tools
    • collaborative work management tools

September 11

September 13

September 16

September 18

  • Viewing of student web pages
  • Review and discussion of example exam questions

September 20: Exam I

September 23

  • Databases
  • Assign last 10 points of exam 1

September 25

  • Discussion of answers to exam 1

September 27

September 30

October 2

  • Storing images on web pages
  • FTP (file transfer protocol)
  • Programming languages: machine/assembly, procedural (e.g. Fortran, COBOL), object-oriented (e.g. C++, Java), visual (e.g. Visual Basic), etc...

October 4

October 7

October 9: FALL BREAK

October 11: FALL BREAK

October 14

October 16

  • Viewing of student web pages
  • Programming languages and other software, continued (AI, software agents, GIS, ERP, CASE, CAD/CAM, etc.)

October 18

  • "Topic of the Week" (5) due
  • Introducing Innovation into Organizations

October 21

  • Introducing Innovation into Organizations, continued
    • The individual adoption-decision process
    • Factors that influence the introduction of a new idea into an organization:
      • 1) Individual traits:
        • innovator
        • early adopter
        • early majority
        • late majority
        • laggard
October 23
  • Introducing Innovation into Organizations, continued
    • Factors that influence the introduction of a new idea into an organization, continued:
      • 2) the traits of the organization
      • 3) the network surrounding the organization
        • increasing returns to adoption
October 25
  • "Topic of the Week" (6) due
  • Introducing Innovation into Organizations, continued
    • Factors that influence the introduction of a new idea into an organization, continued:
      • 4) traits of the innovation: relative advantage, compatibility, ease of use, trialability, result demonstrability, visibility, image, etc.
October 28
  • Introducing Innovation into Organizations, continued
  • Case #1
  • WebBoard

October 30

  • Introducing Innovation into Organizations, continued
    • Factors that influence the introduction of a new idea into an organization, continued:
      • 5) the people in the organization: management, opinion leaders, champion
      • 6) individual involvement in the change effort
      • 7) voluntariness

November 1

  • "Topic of the Week" (7) due
  • Review for Exam II
November 4
  • Work on Case #1 in your team

November 6

  • Exam II
November 8
  • Work on Case #1 in your team
November 11
  • Case #1 due
  • Discussion of Case #1 (informal presentations/discussion)
November 13

November 15

November 18

November 20

  • Student-led discussion of readings shown on November 18th
  • Case #2
November 22
  • "Topic of the Week" (9) due
  • Section .01:
    • Managing Technical People, continued
  • Section .02:
    • Knowledge Management, continued
    • Review answers to Exam II
November 25
  • Web page due (final version!)
  • Managing Technical People, continued
November 27: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

November 29: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

December 2

  • The System Development Process revisted
December 4
  • Review
December 6
  • Case #2 due - presentations (and written)
December 9-13: Final Exam Week!