Information and Organizations

Information and Organizations

Instructor 

Scott MacKenzie, Associate Professor

Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics

Topics include:

·        Roles of information and information technology

·        Roles of people using, developing and managing systems

·        Cost/value and quality of information

·        Analysis of knowledge work and its requirements

·        Knowledge work productivity concepts

·        Application versus system software

·        Database features, functions and architectures

·        Systems concepts

·        System components and relationships

Textbook

The following is the required textbook for the course:

Principles of Information Systems, by Ralph M. Stair & George W. Reynolds, published by ITP, 1999 (ISBN: 0-7600-1079-x)

 Lecture Notes Download here

1.      Chapter 1 – Introduction to Information Systems

2.      Chapter 2 - Information Systems in Organizations

3.      Chapter 3 - Hardware, Input, Processing, and Output Devices

4.      Chapter 4 - Software: Systems and Applications Software

5.      Chapter 5 - Organizing Data and Information

6.      Chapter 6 - Telecommunications and Networks

7.      Chapter 7 - The Internet, Intranets, and Extranets

8.      Chapter 8 – Transaction Processing, Electronic Commerce, and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

9.      Chapter 9 - Management Information Systems

10.  Chapter 10 - Decision Support Systems

11.  Chapter 11 – Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

12.  Chapter 12 – Systems Development