Management Information Systems: Case Study

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• Management Information Systems Case Study

Instructor Y.T. Wang (???) Office
??105 Phone [phone] Email
ytwang_at_pu.edu.tw Office hour Thu 1200-1600
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Syllabus

• Technology and its management are becoming
  increasingly important and pervasive in
  businesses, the community, and even the
  individual life. Managers of the future will need
  to be globally oriented in every respect, and
  hence need to understand technology and all other
  aspects of management and leadership in an
  international context.

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Syllabus

• This course focuses on using the technical
  understanding that students may have obtained in
  an Introduction to Management Information Systems
  class. By using real business cases and
  descriptions of actual situations, this course
  will help students apply their skills to business
  decision making.

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Syllabus

• Case 1. Biotecnol LDA Pharmaceutical.
• Case 2. EKATO Ruhrwerke.
• Case 3. Peters and Brownes Group (Western
  Australia) Review of Best Practice in the
  Adoption and Management of Technology.
• Case 4. Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate GmbH Working
  for the Environment from Design to disposal.
• Case 5. Guy Birkin -the Development and
  Implementation of Textronic Lace.
• Case 6. Telstras National Telemarketing Centre.
• Case 7. Samyeong Cable Company.
• Case 8. A Case Study of the Implementation and
  Management of Surface Mount Technology at Hewlett
  Packards Medical Products Group Andover Surface
  Mount Centre.
• Case 9. New Product Development at HPM.
• Case 10. The Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
  Design Process Evaluation.
• Case 11. CIG Gas Cylinders A Case Study of a
  Manufacturing Companys Experience with
  Self-Managed Work Teams (SMWT).
• Case 12. Iva Manufacturing A Case of
  Implementing and Exploiting Advanced Technology
  for Strategic Advantage.
• Case 13. A Case Study of Manufacturing
  Organization Reconfiguration for Organisational
  Development at Alan Group, U.K.
• Case 14. A Case Study of the Implementation and
  Management of Supply Chain Management at Becton
  Dickinson.
• Case 15. The Duck Manufacturing Centre (A)
  Embarking on Reengineering.
• Case 16. The Duck Manufacturing Centre (B C)
  TMQ and the New Layout for Hard Mental Processes
  (B) and the Implementation of a New Pull System
  (C).
• Case 17. TOKAI-RIKA Adoption of Just-in-Time
  Systems.
• Case 18. Restructuring at Mayekawa.
• Case 19. Samwon Precision Machines Company.

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Syllabus

• Textbook
• N. Harrison and D. Samson, Technology
  Management Text and International Cases,
  McGraw-Hill (2002).
• D. L. Anderson, Management Information Systems
  Using Cases within an Industry Context to Solve
  Business Problems with Information Technology,
  Prentice Hall (2000).

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• GRADE
• Regular Presentation 40
• Case Study 40
• Participation 20