Management Information Systems

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Management Information Systems
Core Course of School of Management at Fudan
University

• Prof. Lihua HUANG
• Tel [phone] (O) Lhhuang_at_fudan.edu.cn
• TA Mr. Gang WANG, wg_edison_at_163.com

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Super Girl
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Case of GE Company on P5

• Question
• Evaluate the value of e-Business and e-Commerce
  initiatives in GE Company.

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Why Information Systems are Important?

• Information technology (IT) and information
  systems (IS) have become an essential field in
  business and organization administrative and
  management.
• Applying successfully IT/IS can help to
• improve efficiency
• Enhance effectiveness
• Strengthen competitive position

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Why Information Systems are Important?

• Worldwide spending on information technology is
  now close to 1 trillion per year, and IT
  continues to transform the world of business.
• But approximately half of all large-scale funding
  IT and implementations fail. It's not the
  competence of the IT and IT department it's the
  ability of business management to correctly
  identify opportunities, find appropriate
  technologies, and lead adoption efforts to
  success.

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The Purpose as Core Course in School of Management

• To help, introduce student
• build up the mindset and thinking methodology on
  modern IT/IS.
• learn how to use and manage IT/IS to revitalize
  business process, to improve business decision
  making, and to gain competitive advantage.

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Course Content Framework
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PART II
PART I
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Course Characteristics

• Teaching and Learning Format
• Lecture, cases-based teaching, reading, group
  discussion
• Interaction teaching with learning
• Reference Website
• http//www.mhhe.com/obrien, Introduction
  Information Systems, 12th edition or 13th
  edition/ Student
• http//vcampus.fudan.edu.cn/Management
  Information Systems
• Grading
• Class participation and contribution
  15
• Assignment
  15
• Midterm Exam
  20
• Final Exam
  50

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Assignment for Session 2

• Reading Materials
• Textbook chapter 1
• Group case discussion for case Mr. Wangs
  Pottery Company
• Questions
• Why the Mr. Wangs Pottery Company build
  information systems?
• What information systems should the company
  adopt?
• Take an example to illustrate that in the
  system, people use hardware, software, data, and
  network as resource to perform input, processing,
  output, storage, and control activities that
  transform data resource to information products.

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QUESTIONS ANSWER