Schedule

• Course goals, assignments
• Persuasion and communication with decks

• Why some people are more innovative
• Business model canvas (introduction)
• Real estate plan (tutorial)

• Enterprise IT
• Systems and business processes

• Systems thinking
• Introduction to CRM
• Introduction to ERP

• T: Project proposal

• Structure of the IT organization
• Elevator pitch

• Case: Cirque du Soleil
• Organizational Architecture
• The Built-to-Purpose IT Organization
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• Cirque du Soleil (1/27)
• T: Progress report (1/27)
• Elevator pitch (1/27)

• Role of the IT organization
• Evaluating IT projects

• Case: Wyeth
• Everything is measurable
• IT doesn’t matter (read all 8 parts)

• Wyeth (2/5)
• T: Progress report (charter and model)

(2/3)

• Quiz 1 (2/10)
• Team meetings with instructor (2/12)

• (review previous class materials)
• Team order – 1 (12:30), 2 (12:45), 3 (1:00), 4 (1:15), 5 (1:30)

• T: Progress report (charter and model)

(2/12)

• Value of IT
• Elevator pitch

• IT Financial Management and the Four Potential Futures of the IT Organization
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• Disruptive innovation

• Reinventing your business model
• Reading: Christensen (Intro. & Ch. 1)
• What is disruptive innovation?
• Disruptive innovation (tutorial)

•  T: Progress report (prototype) (2/24)

• Applying disruptive innovation

• Disruptive Innovation Cases

• Cases Study Analysis (3/10)

• Putting it together: value, innovation, models

• The art of integrative thinking
• Performance reviews

• Quiz 2 (3/24)
• (team meetings with instructor) (3/26)

• (review previous class materials)
• 12:30 – Team 5, 12:45 – Team 4, 1:00 – Team 3, 1:15 – Team 2, 1:30 – Team 1

• T: First progress grade from mentor (3/24)
• T: Progress report (project site) (3/26)

• Online team meetings with instructor

4/2:  12:30 – Team 4;  12:55 – Team 5

• Online team meetings with instructor

4/9:  12:30 – Team 2;  12:55 – Team 1

• Team project presentations –
• (the ‘dress rehearsal’)

• T: Second progress grade from mentor

(4/14)

•  Class summary and discussion

•   Performance Reviews (4/21)

• MIS Project Showcase – 4:00pm- 6:00pm