BIS 220Introduction to Computer Applications and Systems

Workshop One

RAJI GOGULAPATI

JULY - AUG 2014

Topics

Introductions

Name

Company & Responsibilities

Involvement with Information Systems

Involvement with IT Department

Course Design

Syllabus Walk-thru

Introductions

Syllabus Walk-thru

Benefits of Information Systems In Work Environment

Ethical Issues

Word Processing Tools for communicating

Conclusions

Formation of Learning Teams

Your activities for coming week

Syllabus & Some More..

Read the syllabus carefully!

Attendance Is Important!

Grading Criteria – both Writing & Presentation Detailed Grading Templates on Faculty Website!

Use Materials, read the material especially Case Studies in your Text and UOP Library!

Refer to OLS course forums for syllabus, class materials and any other messages to the class!

Individual and Learning Team Assignment, Late Work Grading Criteria

Remember to Check syllabus / Slide material towards the end for activities for coming week / Learning Team Insights.

Questions?

Workshop preparation

Workshop

Individual Understand policies, Acts, write proposals, prepare presentations, high order thinking

Learning TeamsWrite proposals, understand and reflect on your and other teams perspectives in group discussions, high order thinking

Prepare to discuss and debate with guideline in lesson plan

Materials precede and guide assignments

Preparation

Theme – IS/ IT Transitions, Business Transformation,Influences on Organization, People personal and work lives

Topics

Introductions

Syllabus Walk-thru - Course Objectives

Benefits of Information Systems In Work Environment

Ethical Issues

Word Processing Tools for communicating

Conclusions

Formation of Learning Teams

Your activities for coming week

Debates and Discussions

http://www.kurzweilai.net/exponential-growth-of-computing

Information Systems in Business Enterprise 1.0

Enterprise 1.0

Information Systems in Business Enterprise 1.0

m-commerce applicationsNew PC?

What did we learn so far?

Workplace - Influences (early Y2K)

Large and successful business organizations are consistently making efforts to embrace the information culture, a culture where information is the essence of all activities. A significant change visible to everyone is the “Virtual organization”.

At work

IS/ IT Influence inside an organization

Internet

IS/ IT Influence outside the organization

On Technologies and Organizations

Changing role of the CIO – more of a business partner - less of a gatekeeper of technologies

IT is speaking the language of the workplace!

Take away points for Traditional IT so far

IT enables business transformation

Organizations combat pressures of businesses with IT

What is next? ?

Infrastructure

Software in a nutshell

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense ….…Software is also eating much of the value chain of industries that are widely viewed as primarily existing in the physical world ………..many people in the U.S. and around the world lack the education and skills required to participate in the great new companies coming out of the software revolution”

Marc Andreesen, Co-founder of Netscape in WSJ Aug 20, 2011

Software is eating the world!

What are the storage and Processing needs?

How do new technologies benefit an organization?

How are hardware and software assets acquired?

What computer arrangement is the best fit?

What is the selectionCriteria?

Computing Environments

IT Focus to meet challenges of business organizations“globalization, high productivity, interactivity, rapid adaptation”

Source: March, S., Hevner, A., & Ram, S. (2000). Research Commentary An Agenda for Information Technology Research in Heterogeneous and Distributed Environments. Information Systems Research, 11(4), 327.

What did we learn so far? Value of information and how it influences decision makers

Potential of Information systems

Importance of collaboration among people (business and IT)

Businesses Transform with the potential of IS / IT

What is Next? Information Resource Management

Strategies For Competitive Advantage

Information Resource Management

Stakeholders – IS Management

Investments

John Ward, Principles of Information Systems

Technology Management

Enable rich customer experiences

Processes

People

Technologies

Organization resources

Strategies for competitive advantage

Understand Advantage is Transient

Source: McGrath, R. (2013). Transient Advantage. Harvard Business Review, 91(6), 62-70.

Source: McGrath, R. (2013). Transient Advantage. Harvard Business Review, 91(6), 62-70.

Fast forward to Enterprise 2.0

Agile Software Development

Enterprise 2.0 Systems

Future of the enterprise

Source: www.dionhinchcliffe.com

Evolving digital organization

Ethics, Privacy and Security

Your activities for coming week

Meet with your learning teams

Prepare and SUBMIT a Learning Team Charter

Prepare and submit individual assignment as per syllabus. Remember to include all references and use proper citations.

Read:

Selected Readings specified in Materials page,Refer to your syllabus and lesson plan for details on activities during the workshop

Source Material Used in Workshop One The chapters recommended from the electronic texts in

Materials (Introduction To Information Systems by Rainer et al).

Source for slides 39-40 - Principles of Information Systems Management by John Ward

IT Focus is taken from Information Systems Research, 2000 INFORMS Vol. 11, No. 4, December 2000, pp 327 – 341, An agenda for IT research in Heterogeneous and Distributed Environments