2. Introduction
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Nicholas (Nick) Davis
• MBA, Information Systems, 1998
• IS security focus, member of FBI Infragard,
CISSP
• Work: Berbee, Rayovac, AmFam, UW
• Consulting: CUNA, Epicentre, Casimir Jones
• Teaching: UW, MATC, Cardinal Stritch
• Tel. 608-347-2486 Email: cow@chartermi.net
3. Course Objectives
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Assess the significance of IT in managing the
enterprise
• Evaluate the role of IT management in decision
making
• Describe how IT supports E-Commerce
• Discuss ethical and social issues related to IT in
business
4. Course Objectives
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Evaluate how IT infrastructure, platform,
databases and communication networks
facilitate business processes
• Assess the opportunities wireless technology
presents
• Analyze the challenges and opportunities
presented by the need to secure and control IT
technologies
5. Course Objectives
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Discuss IT applications and methods of integrating those
applications into business processes
• Describe the function of knowledge management
systems in an organization
• Explain how to build and redesign IT systems as a way
to support business processes
• Evaluate the role of IT in improving a company’s
decision making process
6. Course Objectives
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Evaluate how IT infrastructure, platform,
databases and communication networks
facilitate business processes
• Assess the opportunities wireless technology
presents
• Analyze the challenges and opportunities
presented by the need to secure and control IT
technologies
7. Franciscan Values
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
Creating a Caring Community
Showing Compassion
Reverencing All of Creation
Making Peace
8. Grading Criteria
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
Individual:
Discussion questions 25%
Chapter case studies 20%
Project Team:
Team project exercises 15%
Chapter case studies 15%
International case study paper 15%
International case study presentation 10%
Total 100%
9. Textbook
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
Management Information Systems
Managing the Digital Firm
10. Project Teams
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Provide a source for mutual support
• Help students learn from the professional
expertise of their peers
• Allow students to cover more content in a
limited time
• Help individuals develop conflict resolution
skills
11. Learning Session One
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Assess the significance of IT in managing an enterprise
• Explain the primary challenges and opportunities of
using IT
• Evaluate the role of IT management in decision making
• Describe the different types and functions of systems
• Discuss how IT affects businesses and decision making
12. Assignments Due Today
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Read chapters 1-3 in the text
• Submit a 2-3 page paper that answers the
discussion questions at the end of
chapters 1-3
13. Activity One
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Welcome and introductions
• Syllabus supplement
• Tell us about yourselves
• Work background, familiarity with IT,
Favourite food
• Tell us three things about yourself, two of
which are true and one of which is false
15. Activity Three
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
Agenda:
IT management, Decision making with IT
16. Activity Four
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• The importance of Information Systems
• Human Resources
• Marketing/Sales
• Finance
• Accounting
• Operations
17. Activity Four
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Virtual Meetings: Smart Management
• Pages 10-11
18. Activity Four
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• UPS Competes Globally With Information
Technology
• Page 23
19. Activity Four
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Your company
• How have roles and responsibilities in the
IT area changed over the past five to ten
years?
20. Activity Four
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Write short paper (2 paragraphs)
• What is the relationship between IT and
decision making in your company?
• How does technology facilitate
management in a contemporary firm?
21. Activity Five
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Group assignment
• Evaluate the role of Information Systems in
contemporary business
• How and why has IT become essential for adapting to
change
• How IT facilitates global communication
• Describe knowledge based products and services
• How IT makes business more flexible
22. Activity Six
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Challenges/threats faced by:
• Information Systems in contemporary business
• Pace of change of IT systems
• Modern communication needs/methods
• Knowledge based products and services
• Making the business more flexible
23. Activity Seven
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Class discussion
• Which IT functions contribute most to
helping an organization gain competitive
advantage?
• Justify your responses
24. Activity Eight
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Identify the major types of systems in
organizations
• Compare and contrast these systems
• How does each contribute to the business
processes
25. Activity Nine
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Collaboration and Teamwork:
• Identifying Management Decisions and
Systems (page 71)
• Report of your discussions to the class
26. Activity Ten
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Do you have questions about IT as a strategic partner in
the organization
• Strategic management within the IT group itself.
Applications vs. Systems Support, HR Systems,
Database Systems, Employee Facing vs. External
Facing systems. How is responsibility assigned?
• Why is it so important that IT functions are done
strategically as opposed to tactically?
27. Activity Eleven
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Discussion
• How do you measure the
effectiveness of IT as it relates
to management decision
making?
• Opportunities and challenges
posed by IT strategies
28. Activity Twelve
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Form Project Teams
• 3 or 4 people per team
• Select International Case Study
• 10-12 page paper
• 15 minute oral presentation
29. Activity Thirteen
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Form groups
• Discuss: JetBlue Hits Turbulence
• Pages 72-75
• DO NOT complete the case
• Determine the STEPS you would take to
complete the case. Share with the class
30. Activity Fourteen
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Form groups
• Analyze Collaboration and Teamwork:
Identifying Opportunities for Strategic
Information Systems
• Page 116
• Answer questions at end of case
• Share with the class
31. Activity Fifteen
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Split into three groups
• Discuss the responses to the questions
which are due today
• Each group will prepare a paper which
addresses the questions in one of the
chapters 1, 2, or 3
32. Activity Sixteen
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• What did you like about today’s learning
session?
• What do you think could be improved for
the next learning session?
33. Activity Seventeen
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Due next week: Individual
• Read chapters 4, 5 and 10
• Submit a typed 2-3 page paper which answers
the discussion questions at the end of chapters
4, 5 and 10
• Submit a typed 3-5 page paper which answers
the questions for the Facebook’s Dilemma case,
pages 406-409
34. Activity Seventeen
MGT 540 – Managing Technology For Organizations
• Due next week: Project Teams
• Hand in a 3-5 page paper which analyzes:
• Performing a competitive analysis of E-Commerce Sites,
page 405
• Developing a corporate ethics code, page 155
• Evaluating server operating systems, page 201
• Hand in a 3-5 page paper which addresses the
questions on page 158, for the case “Should Google
Organize Your Medical Records?”
35. Drive Carefully
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• Nicholas Davis
• Tel: 608-347-2486
• Email: cow@chartermi.net
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