To download the revised syllabus, click here.

To quickly view the updated tentative schedule, click here.

Areas of Focus for Midterm – MS 2101Here are some areas you may want to focus on in preparation for the midterm on 3/26/14.

Ruth Balton

Adjunct Professor

Hello

You should use this updated deck for our 3/12 class discussion.

Thanks,Ruth Balton

Week 06 – Rev.3.8.14.Enhancing Business Intelligence Using Information Systems

Hello –

I referenced several items in last week’s class (2/26).

Here is the video on the Walled Garden:

Here is the link to the NY Times article on Square Cash:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/your-money/square-cash-free-for-now-has-several-payment-perks.html?_r=0

And here is the short video from the  Strata Conference:

As a post-script to automation (part of our discussion on gaining competitive advantage, check out these manufacturing robots.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/second-machine-age-will-require-more-human-creativity/

If you have a chance to read this before today’s session, that would be helpful.  Even after today’s session, You may also want to peruse this pertinent article on the evolution and business mode of Amazon.  How has Jeff Bezos evolved Amazon and is it all good?  Good for the book industry?  Good for books?  Good for ideas?  Good for its workers?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/17/140217fa_fact_packer

For those of you who missed our 2/12 class, Tyler Ogg presented the first assignment, Project 1 – Business Applications, which is due on March 12th at 5:30pm.  You are to submit in hard copy.

The assignment can be found on this blog (Project 1) along with links to a video which explains the methodology.

If you have questions, please send an email to Tyler Ogg at tue57766@temple.edu .

Ruth Balton

Please read this article from the New York Times by next week’s class time (5:30pm on February 5th).

NYTimes Article

MIS2101 Syllabus Spring 2014

Tentative Schedule

The schedule below is tentative and is subject to updates and modifications as the course progresses, particularly if guest speakers are arranged.  Updates to the schedule will be announced in class and posted to the class blog.  It is your responsibility to ensure you are aware of the updated class schedule.  Please get into the habit of checking the class blog before each class to make sure you get the most out of class time.

Course Objectives

• The primary objectives are:
  • Explain the role of technology as a business enabler
  • Identify and explain applications in a business setting
  • Evaluate the organizational fit and suitability of business applications
  • Interpret the interaction between technology, customers, processes, data, infrastructure, participants, and environment an organization.
• The secondary objectives are:
  • Discriminate and synthesize between different sources of information as part of application acquisition or development
  • List ethical and intellectual property challenges that arise from the use of technology
  • Explain the evolving role of MIS in the organization, the MIS professional, and careers in MIS

Please note that it is against my policy to discuss via e-Mail grades on any exam, graded assignment or any other direct component of your final grade.  If you would like to discuss how an exam or assignment was graded, please see me during office hours.  If you are not available during office hours, please make an appointment with me for another time.

Please note that two weeks after a grade has been posted, the grade will be considered “final”.  If you have an issue with a grade you are required to meet with me or make an appointment to meet with me during this two-week period.  After this two-week period a grade will be considered “final” and is not up for discussion.

Class Repeat policy

A grade of a ‘C or better’ is required for all MIS courses in order to move onto the next course in sequence.  MIS students are ONLY permitted to repeat a course one time. Any MIS student repeating a course should seek the guidance of the Senior Program Specialist or their Fox School UG advisor.  MIS majors WILL NOT be permitted to register for a course a third time.  Each time a student registers for a course and earns a grade, including a “W” when withdrawing from a course, will count towards this limit.

Assignments

Assignments consist of hands-on-projects. These projects are one of the most important ways for you to learn and integrate the material of this class. If you do not do well with the projects,  then you will find it difficult to pass this class. The material involved in the projects is further tested in the exams. The primary projects for the course are:

• Project 1: Business Applications

This project has three major parts and will require students to understand how to use different   application software to address a variety of business problems.  Each section of the project involves reading, interacting with some software, copying computer screen images into your assignment to demonstrate your work, and responding to questions.  Typical business applications addressed by this project will include: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Business Intelligence (BI).

• Project 2: SAP

This project will give you hands on experience with a working SAP system, where you will be required to complete typical business functions in the areas of Procurement and Sales Orders Processing.  SAP is the world leader in ERP, and this project will help demonstrate both the value and difficulty in integrating business functions, using a real world SAP system.

• Project 3: Digital Identity Management

This project will have several phases to it, where you will create an ‘e-portfolio’ for yourself, using WordPress and the Temple MIS Community site to create a professional resume and portfolio of yourself, and make it available to internet users.  You will then learn how to use Google Analytics to measure and analyze the data and traffic your e-portfolio ad generates.

All assignments will be graded using a “fail, pass, pass-high” approach.  Zero credit will be earned for assignments, which are not handed in or not handed in on time.

Partial credit will be earned for assignments, which are handed in on time but where the quality of work is unacceptable (i.e. “Fail” – one or more of the questions were not answered, little care was shown when constructing the answers, or there were numerous spelling and grammatical errors.)

Substantial partial credit will be earned for assignments which are handed in on time and the quality of the work is acceptable (i.e. “Pass” – all questions were answered and the answers were well-reasoned.  There are few significant grammar or spelling errors.)

Full credit will be earned for assignments, which are handed in on time, and the quality of the work clearly demonstrates the student’s mastery of the subject matter, “Pass-high”.

The following table specifies the number of points, which will be earned for each assignment for “fail”, “pass”, and “pass-high”.

Graded assignments will not be returned in class.  If you would like your graded assignments, please stop by my office during office hours within two weeks after grades have been posted.  Assignments that have not been picked up during this two-week period will be discarded.

Plagiarism, Academic Dishonesty and Citation Guidelines

Plagiarism and academic dishonesty can take many forms.  The most obvious is copying from another student’s exam, but the following are also forms of this:

• Copying material directly from the Internet (or another source) without a proper citation crediting the author
• Turning in an assignment from a previous semester as if it were your own
• Having someone else complete your lab assignment and submitting it as if it were your own
• Signing someone else’s name to an attendance sign-in sheet
• Use of assignments completed in one class as any part of a project assigned in another class
• Use of unauthorized notes during an examination
• In cases of cheating, both parties will be held equally responsible, i.e. both the student who shares the work and the student who copies the work.

• Sharing/copying homework assignments.

Of course, behavior like this will not be tolerated in this class.  Penalties for such actions are given at my discretion, and can range from a failing grade for the individual assignment, to a failing grade for the entire course.

If you use text, figures, and data in reports that was created by others you must identify the source and clearly differentiate your work from the material that you are referencing. If you fail to do so you are plagiarizing. There are many different acceptable formats that you can use to cite the work of others (see some of the resources below).  The formats are not as important as the intent. You must clearly show the reader what is your work and what is a reference to somebody else’s work.

Plagiarism is a serious offence and could lead to reduced or failing grades and/or expulsion from the university. The Temple University Student Code of Conduct specifically prohibits plagiarism (see http://www.temple.edu/assistance/udc/coc.htm).

The following excerpt defines plagiarism:

Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of another person’s labor, ideas, words, or assistance. Normally, all work done for courses — papers, examinations, homework exercises, laboratory reports, oral presentations — is expected to be the individual effort of the student presenting the work. There are many forms of plagiarism: repeating another person’s sentence as your own, adopting a particularly apt phrase as your own, paraphrasing someone else’s argument as your own, or even presenting someone else’s line of thinking in the development of a thesis as though it were your own. All these forms of plagiarism are prohibited both by the traditional principles of academic honesty and by the regulations of Temple University. Our education and our research encourage us to explore and use the ideas of others, and as writers we will frequently want to use the ideas and even the words of others. It is perfectly acceptable to do so; but we must never submit someone else’s work as if it were our own, rather we must give appropriate credit to the originator.

Source: Temple University Graduate Bulletin, 2000-2001. University Regulations, Other Policies, Academic Honesty. Available online at: http://www.temple.edu/gradbulletin/

For a more detailed description of plagiarism:

Princeton University Writing Center on Plagiarism:

http://web.princeton.edu/sites/writing/Writing_Center/WCWritingRes.htm

How to successfully quote and reference material:

University of Wisconsin Writers Handbook

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/QuotingSources.html

How to cite electronic sources:

Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association

http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html

References and Resources

Temple University Student Code of Conduct

http://www.temple.edu/assistance/udc/coc.htm

Temple University Writing Center

http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/

Temple University Graduate Bulletin, 2000-2001.

http://www.temple.edu/gradbulletin