Management Information Systems
Required Texts:
Laudon, K. C. & Laudon, J. P. (2018). Management information systems: Managing the digital firm (15th ed.). Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
(Note: This course utilizes Pearson MyLab for e-content and the e-text. You will purchase access to this content through a
link in the course menu.)
Course Assignment Descriptions
You will have several opportunities to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the principles
taught in this course. The primary means of evaluating your work will be through practical application of the material. In the event that you have difficulty completing any of the assignments for this course, please contact your instructor immediately. Please refer to the Weekly Materials section of the cyber classroom for complete details regarding the activities and assignments for this course. The following is merely a summary. Coursework for accelerated courses requires 12-15 hours of independent work each week. Some students may complete coursework in fewer hours and some students may require additional hours beyond the estimate. Careful consideration should be given to this estimate when planning your personal schedule.
Discussion Contributions
Initial Substantive Posts: Submit an initial response to each of the prompts provided each week by
your instructor. Your initial post should be substantive (approximately 200-250 words in length) and
must be posted by 11:59 p.m., Central Time by Wednesday of each week. In your substantive post you
are encouraged to use references (you may use your textbook); show evidence of critical thinking as it
applies to the concepts or prompt and/or use examples of the application of the concepts to work and
life. Proper punctuation, grammar and correct spelling are expected. Please use the spell-check
function. Required Replies: You must reply to at least two different peers per prompt. Your replies should build on the concept discussed, offer a question to consider, or add a differing perspective, etc. Rather than responding with, "Good post," explain why the post is "good" (why it is important, useful, insightful, etc.). Or, if you disagree, respectfully share your alternative perspective. Just saying "Iagree" or "Good idea" is not sufficient for the posts you would like graded. Posting Guidelines: Overall, postings must be submitted on at least two separate days of the week. It
is strongly recommended you visit the discussion forum throughout the week to read and respond to
your peers’ postings. You are encouraged to post more than the required number of replies.
Weekly Expectations:
All online weeks run from Monday to Sunday, except the last week, which ends on Saturday.
All assignments are due at 11:59 PM Central Time. (All submissions to the Blackboard system are date/time stamped in
Central Time).
Week 1
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Readings:
Review the weekly lesson, videos and readings provided in the course
From the e-text (available in Pearson MyLab):
Chapter 1: Information Systems in Global Business Today
Chapter 2: Global E-business and Collaboration
Discussion:
Initial post to each prompt due by Wednesday at 11:59 PM, CT on Wednesday
At least two replies to peers for each prompt due by 11:59 PM, CT on Sunday
Assignment(s)
Week 1 Essay
Visit the websites of both General Electric (GE) and Sunbelt Rentals. Using the information found in those sites as well as your own outside research, create a 2-3 page essay in which you answer the following questions:
Identify the problems faced by each of the businesses and how they were solved or could be solved by using mobile digital devices.
What kinds of applications have been or could have been used? What types of business functions do these applications support? How do these applications improve operational efficiency and decision making?
Your essay should be 2-3 pages in length and fully explore all of the following items described above.
Include at least 2 outside sources (not including your text) and use proper APA formatting.
Due: Sunday at 11:59 PM, CT
Points Possible: 50
Week 2
Readings:
Review the weekly lesson, videos and readings provided in the course
Chapter 3: Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy
Discussion:
Initial post to each prompt due by 11:59 PM, CT on Wednesday
At least two replies to peers for each prompt due by 11:59 PM, CT on Sunday
Assignment(s)
Week 2 Essay
Refer to this week's case on the NBA and Akamai OS Streaming as well as the NBA's website and other independent research. In a 2-3 page essay, use Porter’s generic strategies model to analyze the NBA’s overall
strategy or strategies. Why is it important that individual franchise owners can build, manage and distribute their own content on the NBA platform?
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Your 2-3-page long essay must fully explore all of the items described above. Include at least 2 outside
sources (not including your text) and use proper APA formatting.
Due: Sunday at 11:59 PM, CT
Points Possible: 50
Week 3
Readings:
Review the weekly lesson, videos and readings provided in the course
Chapter 4: Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems
Chapter 5: IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technology
Discussion:
Initial post to each prompt due by 11:59 PM, CT on Wednesday
At least two replies to peers for each prompt due by 11:59 PM, CT on Sunday
Assignment(s)
Week 3 Presentation: Cloud Computing
From this week's reading Should Businesses Move to the Cloud? (Found at the End of Chapter) and your own independent research, create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the following elements:
What business benefits do cloud computing services provide? What problems do they solve?
What are the disadvantages of cloud computing?
How do the concepts of capacity planning, scalability, and TCO apply to this case? Apply these
concepts both to Amazon (or a similar firm) and to subscribers of its services.
What kinds of businesses are most likely to benefit from using cloud computing? Why?
Ensure your presentation is at least 15 slides long, not including the title and reference pages. Utilize various creative strategies (animation, color, images, etc.) to create an informative and visually appealing presentation. You may record audio for your presentation using PPT or an online source such as Prezi.
Remember to cite all sources, including images, using APA guidelines.
Due: Sunday at 11:59 p.m., CT
Points Possible: 50
Week 4
Readings:
Review the weekly lesson, videos and readings provided in the course
Chapter 6: Foundations of Business Intelligence: Database and Information Management
Chapter 7: Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology
Discussion:
Initial post to each prompt due by midnight, CT on Wednesday
At least two replies to peers for each prompt due by midnight, CT on Sunday
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Assignment(s)
Week 4 Assignment: Logical Design
A database management system is comprised of three components: a data definition language, data
dictionary, and data manipulation language.
A logical design helps to analyze and understand the data from a business perspective, while physical design shows how the database is arranged on direct access storage devices.
Prepare a logical design for a process used by your organization. You may select something that you work
with directly, or a hypothetical process. Your logical design should cover the three aspects of the database management system. Compare and contrast this with the physical design of the process and describe how the logical design and physical design affect one anther.
Address all of the required components in at least 4 pages. Use visual elements when appropriate. Follow APA formatting, including any citations, especially images.
Due: Sunday at 11:59 p.m., CT
Points: 75
Week 5 Readings:
Review the weekly lesson, videos and readings provided in the course
Chapter 8: Securing Information Systems
Chapter 9: Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise
Applications
Discussion:
Initial post to each prompt due by midnight, CT on Wednesday
At least two replies to peers for each prompt due by midnight, CT on Sunday
Assignment(s)
Week 5 Essay: Supply Chain Management
Trucking companies no longer merely carry goods from one place to another. Some also provide supply
chain management services to their customers and help them manage their information. In this project you’ll use the Web to research and evaluate two of these business services.
Investigate the Web sites of two companies, J. B. Hunt and Schneider Logistics, to see how these companies’ services can be used for supply chain management. Using the information found in those sites as well as your own outside research, create an essay in which you answer the following questions:
What supply chain processes can each of these companies support for their clients?
How can customers use the Web site of each company to help them with supply chain management?
Compare the supply chain management services provided by these companies. Which company would
you select to help your firm manage its supply chain? Why?
Fully explore all of the items described above in 2-3-pages. Include at least 2 outside sources (not including your text) and use proper APA formatting.
Due: Sunday at 11:59 PM, CT
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Points Possible: 50
Week 6
Readings:
Review the weekly lesson, videos and readings provided in the course
Chapter 10: E-Commerce: Digital Markets, Digital Goods
Chapter 11: Managing Knowledge
Discussion:
Initial post to each prompt due by 11:59 PM, CT on Wednesday
At least two replies to peers for each prompt due by 11:59 PM, CT on Sunday
Assignment(s)
Week 6 Essay: Knowledge Management Systems
One of Canada’s largest companies, Canadian Tire, sells a wide range of goods and services. The retail
outlets are independently owned and operated. The company was using daily mailings and thick product catalogs to inform its dealers about new products, merchandise setups, best practices, product ordering, and problem resolution. It is looking for a better way to provide employees with human resources and administrative documents.
The headquarters can use a daily or weekly email newsletter to disseminate a “heads up” to its retail outlet dealers that encourages them to review the Web site for new products and services, best practices, and problem resolution. A section of the Web site can be established for social interaction between dealers and retail outlets and the headquarters staff to share information and best practices. The knowledge management information system can capture input on the social network and incorporate it into other information in the knowledge management system.
A company such as Etsy, which is an online marketplace for handmade items and art and craft supplies,
strives to build a community among buyers and sellers.
Describe the problems created by doing business without a focus on modern methods and how knowledge management systems might help. Provide options for solutions. Select a business such as Etsy and analyze its operation. Include responses to the following questions in your essay.
1. What is the business model and revenue model?
2. How does the company's website, headquarters, and/or storefronts reflect the culture and values of the company?
3. How important is “community” to the business? Describe all the community-building features found
on the business' website.
Fully explore all of the items described above in 2-3-pages. Include at least 2 outside sources (not including your text) and use proper APA formatting.
Due: Sunday at 11:59 p.m., CT
Points Possible: 50
Week 7
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Readings:
Review the weekly lesson, videos and readings provided in the course
Chapter 12: Enhancing Decision Making
Chapter 13: Building Information Systems
Discussion:
Initial post to each prompt due by midnight, CT on Wednesday
At least two replies to peers for each prompt due by midnight, CT on Sunday
Assignment(s)
Week 7 Essay: DSS for Financial Planning
For this week's assignment, you will go about planning for your hypothetical retirement using web-based decision support systems (DSS) for financial planning and decision making. Follow the steps below and use the provided websites to determine how much you need to save to have enough income for your retirement.
Assume that you are 50 years old and plan to retire in 16 years. You have one dependent and $100,000 in savings. Your current annual income is $85,000. Your goal is to be able to generate an annual retirement income of $60,000, including Social Security benefit payments.
1. To calculate your estimated social security benefit, use the Quick Calculator at the Social Security
Administration Web site here.
2. Use the financial tools available on one of the following web sites to determine how much money you need to save to help you achieve your retirement goal.
a. CNN Business
b. Kiplinger: Finance Advice and Business Forecasts
3. Critique the site—its ease of use, its clarity, the value of any conclusions reached, and the extent to
which the site helps investors understand their financial needs and the financial markets.
4. Now use the other site. How does it compare to the site you initially chose?
Create a 2-3 page essay in which you respond to all of the above items. Follow APA format.
Due: Sunday at 11:59 p.m., CT Points possible: 50
Week 8
Readings:
Review the weekly lesson, videos and readings provided in the course
Chapter 14: Managing Projects
Discussion:
Initial post to each prompt due by midnight, CT on Wednesday
At least two replies to peers for each prompt due by midnight, CT on Saturday
Assignment(s)
Week 8 Final Assignment: Improving Decision-Making
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Assignment/Activity Quantity Points Each Points Total
Weeks 1-8 Discussion 8 20 per week 160
Week 1 Essay 1 50 50
Week 2 Essay 1 50 50
Week 3 Presentation 1 50 50
Week 4 Essay 1 75 75
Week 5 Essay 1 50 50
Week 6 Essay 1 50 50
Week 7 Essay 1 50 50
Week 8 Final Assignment 1 100 100
Total Points 635
You have found a new job in Denver, Colorado and would like to purchase a home in that area. Ideally, you would like to find a single-family house with at least three bedrooms and one bathroom that costs between
$150,000 and $225,000 and finance it with a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. You can afford a down payment that is 20 percent of the value of the house. Before you purchase a house, you would like to find out what homes are available in your price range, find a mortgage, and determine the amount of your monthly payment. You would also like to see how much of your mortgage payment represents principal and how much represents interest. Use the Yahoo! real estate site (http://homes.yahoo.com/) to help you with the following tasks:
1. Locate homes in your price range in Denver, Colorado. Find out as much information as you can about
the houses, including the real estate listing agent, condition of the house, number of rooms, and the
school district.
2. Find a mortgage for 80 percent of the list price of the home.
3. After selecting a mortgage, calculate your closing costs.
4. Calculate the monthly payment for the mortgage you select.
5. Calculate how much of your monthly mortgage payment represents principal and how much represents
interest, assuming you do not plan to make any extra payments on the mortgage.
Next, complete these same steps using a different online source, such a Zillow.
When you are finished, evaluate the whole process for each website. Each evaluation should cover the
following items:
Ease of use of the site and your ability to find information about houses and mortgages
Accuracy of the information you found Breadth of choice of homes and mortgages
How helpful the whole process would be if you were actually in the situation described in this project
Now compare the Yahoo site with the other site you chose. For each of the areas you discussed in your
evaluation, which website has the advantage and why? Be specific and provide examples. Finally, what
improvements or enhancements would you recommend for each site?
Compose a four-page (minimum) essay, not including a cover page, a reference page, or any charts or visual items. Include a chart to illustrate and compare the data you found from the two separate sites. Use APA formatting and cite at least two outside sources.
Due: Saturday at 11:59 p.m., CT
Points: 100
Assignments At-A-Glance
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Grading Scale
Letter Grade Percentage Points
A 90 to 100% 572-635
B 80 to 89% 508-571
C 70 to 79% 445-507
F <70% <445
To access your scores, click on My Grades on the menu in Blackboard.
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