MBA Syllabus

MBA 619: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

• Introduction to MIS: The Technical and Business Perspective.  
• Organization Structure and Role of MIS in an Organization.  
• Fundamentals of Computer Systems: Advanced Hardware Concepts.
• Fundamentals of Computer Software.
• Fundamentals of Telecommunications and Networking.
• The Internet and WWW: Origin and Present status, Future Growth, Killer Apps on Internet.   
• Managing IT in an E-world: Information Technology, Competing in an e-world, Working in an e-world, Social Impacts.   
• Organizational Systems and Application of Information Technology: Types of Organizational Systems, Transaction Processing Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, Data Warehousing, Customer Relationship Management, Office Automation, Groupware, Intranets, Factory Automation.    
• Managerial Support Systems: Decision Support Systems, Data Mining, Group Support Systems, Geographic Information Systems, Executive Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence including Expert Systems and Neutral Networks, Virtual Reality.    
• Real World Applications built around Electronic Commerce Dot Com: Online businesses entirely based on Web traffic, Clicks-and-Mortar v/s Brick-and-Mortar, B2C: Business to Consumer, B2B: Business to Business, EDI: Electronic Data Interchange, C2C: Customer to Customer.   
• Systems Development Approaches: Traditional Life Cycle Approach (System Development Life Cycle or SDLC), Prototyping, Purchased Software, Systems Integration (Outsourcing), End user Development, Implementing an ERP System.   
• Security and Ethical Issues in MIS Management.   

Books Recommended :

• Introduction to Information Technology by Turban, Rainer and Potter.   
• Managing Information Technology by E.W. Martin, C.V.Brown, D.W. DeHayes, J.A. Hoffer and W.C. Perkins.
• Handbook of MIS Management by Robert E.Umbaugh.
• Information System for Modern Management by Murdic R.G. & Ross J.
• Computers and Information System in Business by Brabb George.

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