Management+Information+Systems

- [|**Course Outline.pdf**] []
 * Course Outline**
 * MIS Blog**
 * - I kick-start this blog in S09 for my MIS class. It generated lot of controversy and debate on MIS issues and was an innovative padagogical tool for the discourse outside classroom.

- [|IS in global business.pdf] - [|IS in global business.pdf] - [|Business processes, IS types, Enterprise Systems.pdf] - [|Business processes, IS types, Enterprise Systems 2.pdf] - [|Chapter 3.pdf] - [|hardware.pdf] - [|hardwareII.pdf] - [|telecommunication.pdf] - [|img05_15.jpg] - [|img05_10.jpg] - [|IT Risk Management 032009.pdf] - [|Building IS.ppt] - [|CRM.pdf] - [|KM.pdf] - [|KMS.pdf]
 * Lecture Slides**

- [|**IT Doesn't matter? - an article by Nicholas Carr in HBR**] - This is widely debated article in IT circles and needs careful reading. Nicholas Carr's later wrote a book [|//Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage//], published by the Harvard Business School - The glimpse of the debate that this article stirred accross the business and technology spectrum can best captured on Carr's page itself here. - I liked Bill Gates comments on it: "And so when somebody says, to take the extreme quote from the Harvard Business Review article, they say IT doesn't matter, they must be saying that with all this information flow, we've either achieved a limit where it's just perfect, everybody sees exactly what they want, or we've gotten to a point where it simply can't be improved - and that's where we'd object very strenuously." - Blogoshpere and changing role of individual in the socitety as a content creator. Read more here...**Basic facts on Blogosphere** - Here's the latest technoratti report which was mentioned in the class, **The State of Blogosphere in 2009.** - Discussion on 'circle of influence versus circle of concern' - a concept by Stephen Covey from his book [|The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People]
 * Some other useful discussion topics include...**

You are required to create your own weblog with any free blog provider. The core purpose of the blog will be to discuss your studies and intellectual makeup with the outerworld. The issues that touch you most, it may be politics, arts, literature, science, technolology, sports or any other thing that is of interest to you, that whcih drive you, that which keep you going, that which define you, that whcih give you sense of purpose in life. In doing so you would also like to showcase your university skills, works that you had done before or doing it here in my course or in some other course. Of course I am also asking to put up a page about yourself. If appropriate, a nice formal pic etc..
 * Assignement One:**


 * MARKS: 5

SUBMISSION: Through E-mail only at:** **waseemarain@gmail.com** **latest by 5th May 2010 at 5 P.M.** Include a post on the wish list ....
 * EARLY SUBMISSION BONUS: Those submitting before first hourly begins will get one bonus point.**
 * Some suggestions/tips on getting marks!**
 * Spend some time giving your blog a catchy but meaningful title.
 * You can take further help from the wikibook on An Introduction to Weblogs ( [] ) for making a blog. Section 2 directly explains the steps required to quickly make a blog using the blogger service.
 * You can also find insight into the blogging at: []&
 * Include the RSS Feed gadget in you blog. In Blogger this gadget can be added by going to Customize-Layout-Page Elements.
 * Pick up a nice new template. Select appropriate fonts and colors.
 * Now goto Settings and set all approprate settings. Add some description to your blog. Change all to a meaningful advantage.
 * Enable backlinks. See what they are? and experiment with them.
 * Add an article on your hobbies, include some pics to show your collections etc...
 * Include a section to give a list of the books that you have found interesting... on any subject of your interest... but should not be textbooks...
 * Include a section of places that you have visited... some pics or history of those places....
 * and about the childhood dreams ... you may want to hear [|Randy Pausch's] [|The Last Lecture] before that...
 * Include any other material that is of your interest.