IS 5800 Schedule

IS 5800 -- Management Information Systems
Section G01 Schedule -- Winter, 2010

Date	Topic	Readings	Web Materials	Class Information
1/20	Introduction Introduction to Blogging		Why Study MIS? IT back on the MBA agenda MyGateway: IT Doesn't Matter	Complete Information Form
1/25	Last Day to Add a Class
1/27	Managing in a Digital World	V&S: Chapter 1	MyGateway: Key Issues for IT Executives MyGateway: IT Doesn't Matter MyGateway: Does IT Matter in Business Education? Federal CIO Vivek Kundra	Email Assignment Due Email with Signature Due Presentations
2-3 - 2/10	The Web and Web 2.0	V&S: Chapters 5 and 6	Internet Links Blog Links Net Neutrality Links Social Network Links Wikis Links Early visionaries MyGateway: Enterprise 2.0 MyGateway: A Blogger in their Midst MyGateway: You Are Never Too Old to Surf Wikinomics	Facebook Assignment Due LinkedIn Assignment Due Twitter Assignment Due
2/11	University Date for Dropping a Class with no grade
2-17 - 2/24	Designing Web Pages	Hester	HTML Javascript	Internet Tools and Business Wikipedia Assignment Due
3/3	Globalization and IS	V&S: Chapter 2	Globalization Links The World Is Flat	Guest Speaker Margaret Shoptaw, Microsoft Cloud Computing
3/10	Developing and Acquiring Systems	V&S: Chapter9-10	Open Source Links Technology Links The Cathedral and the Bazaar Diffusion of Innovations	Guest Speaker Srikanth Mudigonda, Doctoral Student Open Source Software Technology Trends Midterm Distributed
3/11	Last day to drop class with a guaranteed passing grade
3/13	Middle of the Semester
3/17	Valuing System Investments	V&S: Chapter 3	CIO Links	Guest Speaker Don Imholz, CIO Centene Corp. Midterm Due
3/24 - 4/7	Managing Infrastructure	V&S: Chapter 4	IT Management Links Cloud Computing Links Diffusion of Innovations MyGateway: IT Project Management	Guest Speaker Joe Rottman, UMSL Faculty Outsourcing Web Pages Due
4/12	Last day to drop the class
4/14-4/28	Business Intelligence and DSS	V&S: Chapter 8	BI Links	Guest Speaker Paul Boal, Mercy Health System
4/21	Green I.T.		Green Computing Links Hot, Flat and Crowded	Edward R Weber, IBM
5/5	Security, Privacy and Ethics	V&S: Chapter 7, 11	Security and Ethics Links	Cyber Crime Presentation
5/12	Final Exam