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1.00 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. Prereq: Open to ACL-MBA students.
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3.00 Credits
This course will help you understand the complex nature of the selection, implementation and management of large enterprise business systems (such as Enterprise Resource System, Customer Relationship Management systems and Supply Chain Management systems). It is no secret that many companies have publicly, and privately, struggled with large enterprise business systems projects which ended up millions of dollars over budget, many years behind schedule, or worse, crippling the companies' operations by failing to meet the day-to-day demands of the business. During this course, we will examine case studies of successful, and unsuccessful, projects and organize the common themes into a framework applicable to the successful navigation of the life cycle of large enterprise business systems. Prereq: MIDS 409.
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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.
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3.00 Credits
Designing is giving form to an idea to conceive of a more desirable product, service, process or organization and refining the idea into something that can be delivered reliably and efficiently. Good design integrates these evolving ideas with the day-to-day realities of a firm's operations, systems, marketing, economics, finance and human resources. Designing is thus a unique managerial activity that brings together changing technologies, capabilities, relationships, activities and materials to shape an organization's plans and strategies. It combines analysis and synthesis in ways that are integrative and inventive, and through it managers create opportunities and means of attaining them. Viewed this way, designing is a core competence of a successful entrepreneur or innovative leader. This course is the first in a two-semester sequence. Design analysis is the systematic review of the four orders of design found in every firm--namely, the firm's communications, products, interactions and environments--and the creation of opportunities to increase firm value by improving each. Students will identify ill-defined, ill-structured problems within organizations. Such problems are ones for which there are no definitive formulations and for which the formulation chosen affects the solutions available. For such problems, there is no explicit way of knowing when you have reached a solution, and solutions cannot necessarily be considered correct or incorrect. But finding innovative solutions to such problems can provide unique opportunities to distinguish organizations and to create exceptional value. A major outcome of the semester's inquiry is a presentation of the challenges and opportunities discovered during the design analysis of the client organization. The presentation will include a conceptualization of the client's current situation and opportunities, along with a statement of their design requirements. It is successful to the extent that it demonstrates learning by creating unexpected value to the client.
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3.00 Credits
Designing is giving form to an idea to conceive of a more desirable product, service, process or organization and refining the idea into something that can be delivered reliably and efficiently. Good design integrates these evolving ideas with the day-to-day realities of a firms' operations, systems, marketing, economics, finance and human resources. Designing is thus a unique managerial activity that brings together changing technologies, capabilities, relationships, activities and materials to shape an organization's plans and strategies. It combines analysis and synthesis in ways that are integrative and inventive, and through it manages to create opportunities and means of attaining them. Viewed this way, designing is a core competence of a successful entrepreneur or innovative leader. This course is the first in a two-semester sequence. Design analysis is the systematic review of the four orders of design found in every firm--namely, the firm's communications, products, interactions and environments--and the creation of opportunities to increase firm value by improving each. Students will identify ill-defined, ill-structured problems within organizations. Such problems are ones for which there are no definitive formulations and for which the formulation chosen affects the solutions available. For such problems, there is no explicit way of knowing when you have reached a solution, and solutions cannot necessarily be considered correct or incorrect. But finding innovative solutions to such problems can provide unique opportunities to distinguish organizations and to create exceptional value. A major outcome of the semester's inquiry is a presentation of the challenges and opportunities discovered during the design analysis of the client organization. The presentation will include a conceptualization of the client's current situation and opportunities, along with a statement of their design requirements. It is successful to the extent that it demonstrates learning by creating unexpected value to the client. Prereq: MIDS 420A.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers concepts, techniques and technologies for providing information systems to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of health care organizations. Offered as HSMC 432, MIDS 432, MPHP 532 and NUNI 432.
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3.00 Credits
Change is an inherent dimension of organizational life-new policies, regulations, technologies, people, products, competitors, markets, processes, physical facilities...the list goes on. Consequently, the abilities to adapt to and manage technical and organizational changes are critical managerial competencies. This course aims to provide a framework for planning, analyzing, and managing those changes over which you as a manager will have some control. Though our discussions will focus on technology-enabled and technology-related change, the intention is to equip you with a process model, tools, and guiding principles that can be applied more generally to other change processes.
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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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1.00 - 18.00 Credits
This course is offered, with permission, to students undertaking reading in a field of special interest.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar addresses topics of current interest with a strong emphasis on research. It is intended primarily for the faculty and doctoral students of the MIDS Department.
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