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3.00 Credits
The goal of this course is to introduce doctoral students to the nature and practice of design as a strategy of inquiry as well as a mode of action in addressing the problems of creating and managing sustainable human systems. The objectives are (1) to introduce the conceptual framework of design, (2) the nature of human interaction as seen from the perspective of design, (3) the intellectual and practical strategies of design, (4) the methods and techniques of design that are relevant to the study and design of sustainable human systems, and (5) the nature of "wicked problems" and the ethical issues of design, with special attention to the place of human dignity in the design of sustainable systems. The course will employ key elements of the literature of design, close reading and discussion, and exercises that explore the concepts and methods of design. Prereq: Students in PhD Management program or requisites not met permission.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to galvanize new visions of business and society, as well as organizational leadership. The course is born of a conviction that the future of human society and the natural world is intimately linked to the future of the world economy, business enterprises, and management education. The course presentations, books, dialogues, and interview projects are organized around three themes: (1) the state of the world and the economics possibilities of our time, (2) the business case for understanding business as an agent of world benefit--how business performance can profit from current and future advances in sustainable design and social entrepreneurship; and (3) tools for becoming a change leader--including the methods of Appreciative Inquiry and new insights about "strength-based" change emerging from the science of human strengths. The overarching aim is to provide a powerful introduction to the many facets of sustainable value creation as a complete managerial approach. Prereq: Students in PhD Management program or requisites not met permission.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide a perspective on systems thinking and complex systems to aid PhD students in expanding the ideas in their research on systems, systems models, and complex systems. The work of the course will develop with increasingly difficult books on the subject of complex systems, a major case study in health care, and individual applications of the concepts to their potential research model and methods. Prereq: Students in PhD Management program or requisites not met permission.
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1.00 - 18.00 Credits
Prereq: Must be enrolled in Ph.D. in Management: Designing Sustainable Systems and have predoctoral research consent or advanced to Ph.D. candidacy milestone.
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3.00 Credits
Managers must design business systems and flows of information that enable an organization to operate successfully in changing environments. This course will explore what "design," "systems," "information" and "environment" really mean in this context. You will develop a systems and design perspective on information and organizations that will inform your future work as a manager and leader. You will learn how to model organizations and their environments to reveal how they reflect foundational concepts of information theory, cybernetic control and complexity. You will also learn to evaluate multiple levels of information design, including communication design, product design, experience design and organization design, as an integral part of your management skills. In addition, you will study the strategic use of contemporary information technologies (e.g., enterprise systems, cloud computing, crowd sourcing, viral marketing, distributed innovation, and social media) to understand how they have changed the competitive landscape of business. Throughout the course, you will be challenged to develop new skills for analyzing organizations, environments and systems, and for using design concepts and methods to create information environments that will enable successful organizations.
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3.00 Credits
Current practices and future directions of multimedia systems are discussed. Special attention is given to management issues involved in specifying, designing, developing, and assessing multimedia systems and to design principles that can be used to improve the quality of multimedia. This is a project-based course in which students gain experience in developing web sites, CD-ROMs, and films. Description for MIDS 415: As information becomes more abstract and therefore more difficult to perceive directly with one's sense, sonic and visual presentation become more important than ever. Designing systems that take advantage of people's aesthetic sensibilities is an area wide open to the enterprising and inventive entrepreneur. This course will interest those who think that artists have a say about how sound and graphics and words might be put together. The course examines aesthetic issues that arise in the development of multimedia. It focuses on creative integration of video, audio, and graphics particularly for the web, interactive CDs, and virtual reality. Offered as MIDS 315 and MIDS 415. Prereq: Not open to first-year students.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates concepts and techniques for analyzing organizational systems in order to identify opportunities for redesigning the organization, its work practices and/or its information systems. It emphasizes creativity in diagnosing organizational problems and opportunities. You will learn consultation and intervention strategies for moving to a consensus on problem definition and a vision of desired changes. You will learn both soft and structured object-oriented methods for performing systems analysis. In addition you will learn the process of documenting new organizational and information system requirements in a form suitable for detailed system design and implementation.
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1.00 - 18.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Standards-based technology is used to help solve complex information system problems in modern organizations. This course brings together component-based development approaches in the context of doing business on the global Internet and on corporate intranets. Enabling technologies are based on published and defacto Internet standards including HTTP and HTML, CGI/API and Perl, CSS, JavaScript, ActiveX, XML, CORBA/DCOM, and SSL/SET. Students are encouraged to contribute to a team effort to design, implement, and integrate an appropriate solution to a selected business problem in electronic commerce or distance learning. They will also develop competency in the foundation technologies. Offered as MIDS 385 and MIDS 485.
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3.00 Credits
For over a half-century, the field of information systems has been learning about the design, development, testing, and use of complex systems. Computers are just the start. The networks that connect them to create a massive communications grid, the software that runs on them, and the impact of these artifacts on organizations have all generated large bodies of knowledge. Two modes of thinking have proven particularly valuable in making sense of these developments--system thinking and design thinking. While this course applies concepts from system thinking and design thinking to problems related to using information in organizations, the techniques are widely applicable to managing.
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