What This Course Is About

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MIS 524

• What This Course Is About

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AGENDA

• The Networked Economy
• Networked Businesses
• The Infrastructure
• Risks to the Infrastructure
• Handling Risky Assets
• Getting IT Work Done
• Controlling IT Risk

Economy Business Infrastructure Development De
velopment Process
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The Networked Economy

• A new way of doing business
• Global Death of Distance
• Hierarchies vs. Networks
• Disintermediation/Reintermediation
• Richness/Reach
• Age of Access
• Supply Chain Integration
• Changes to Competition

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Networked Businesses

• Networked Business Models
• Networked Business Roles
• Designing Networked Businesses
• Hierarchy vs. Entrepreneurial Orgn (Precision
  vs. Innovation)
• The Networked Organization
• Economies of Scale, Scope and Style

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The Infrastructure

• Technical infrastructure The Equipment
• Technical infrastructure The Software
• Technical infrastructure The Network
• Physical infrastructure Facilities
• Characteristics of Networks
• The rise of Internetworking
• New models of Service Delivery

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Risks to the Infrastructure

• Reliability and Availability
• Threat and Counterthreat
• Risk and Risk Management

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Handling Risky Assets

• New Kinds of Assets
• Incremental Outsourcing
• Web Services
• Relationship Management The Contract
• Managing IT Legacies
• Managing Outsourcing-based Alliances

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Getting IT Work Done

• The IT-User Dimension
• IT organizations
• Getting along with IT People
• New Kinds of IT People
• Managing in an IT-enabled Environment

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Controlling IT Risk

• Project and Product Implementation Risk
• Sources of Risk
• Project Risk Management
• Adaptive Methodologies Prototyping