Course Schedule
(revised March 28, 2012)
Course Syllabus <==(go here for the syllabus details)
| Session | Topic & Lecture | Readings | Deliverable |
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| 1: W- Feb. 22 |
The Digital Age and Global Competition Introduction and course orientation 'Trans' vs 'multi'-nationality and virtual work Business Processes Perspectives A Business Process Perspective
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Read before 1st class: BOOK: "Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life" by See also Richard Florida's The Creative Class website. MIT Sloan Management Review Video: "Value Creation, experiments and Why IT Does Matter", Michael Schrage 1. Jay Cousins and Tony Stewart: What is Business Process Design and Why Should I Care?, RivCom, Inc. Whitepaper, April 2002 (8 Pages) 2. Laury Verner (2004): The Challenge of Process Discovery, BP Trends, May 2004 (11 Pages) |
Post a short bio and introduction in Sharepoint giving a Download and Install Endnote Software Download EndNote
from the GSU library Download, unzip and then add this Endnote connection file for the GSU Library to your Endnote => Connections folder to have access to the GSU library from within Endnote proper. |
Feb. 26 - March 4 Before Mar. 9th class |
GSU Spring Break -- No Classes Watch the Elluminate recorded tutorial on the SAP Sales Order Exercise |
But there are readings and tutorials to be completed (seee below) Download and watch (in Elluminate, the file will self start upon selections after download) SalesOrder-SAP.jar |
Install the SAP Client and Do the first set of tutorials Go here to get the SAP client needed for your OS:
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| 2 F-Mar. 9 |
Managing Enterprise Scale Information Systems Development- ERP Systems Guest Lecturers -- Sumantra Sarkar and Ahmed Awar
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See this SAP Video on how ERP is an end-to-end plan, sales, production, ship, bill system <== New after class (Select the "Watch this video" button to load the video.)
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| 3 F-Mar. 9 |
Business Processes Innovation Process Lecture #2- Process Innovation
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1. Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Overdorf: Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change, Harvard Business Review, March-April 2000. (10 Pages). 2. Stephen M. Shapiro: The 7R’s of Process Innovation, The 24/7 Innovation Thought Leadership Series, 2002. (3 Pages) 3. Case: Managing Innovation at Nypro, Inc. (A), Harvard Business School, 9-696-061, 1998. (13 Pages) |
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4 F - Mar 16 |
Managing Enterprise Scale Information Systems Development- ERP Systems Managing the Sourcing of ISD - or- Information Systems Management |
Case: "Siemens Power Corporation: Surviving R3", S. G. Hirt , May 13, 1999 (publicaly available via Google Scholar) Case:C. Brown & I. Vessey, NIBCO's "Big Bang", Indiana Univ. Teaching case , 2000. |
The second Eluminate video on Purchasing To be completed independently: A Second SAP-Purchasing Exercise Write up #1: NIBCO & Seimans ERP Implementation questions |
| 5 W - 21st |
Business Processes and Organizational Agility "On-Demand" Information Systems and "On-Demand" Organizations Process Lecture #3-Organizational Agility |
1. Case: Dairy Farm Group – Redesign of Business Systems and Processes, The University of Hong Kong, 99/45 C. (20 Pages) 2. Stephen H. Haeckel: "Adaptive Enterprise Design: the Sense-and-Respond Model" Planning Review 42 (23), 6-13, (May/June 1995) (9 Pages) |
Write up #2: Process, Agility and On-demand |
| 6 W - 28th |
Business Processes and Organizational IT Infrastructures The Business IS Infrastructure (Pearlson Ch 6) Strategy to architecture to Infrastructure |
Case: "The Coming Commoditization of Processes", Thomas Davenport, Harvard Business Review, June 2005, pp.2-8. Article: Tom Davenport, “IT as an Enabler of Process Innovation” (Chapter 3) in Process Innovation, 1992, 39-69 [only pp. 44-66 are required reading] NOTE: This is listed on the Study.net site as item 4.1 Process Innovation |
Write up #3: Process Innovation and the Role of ICT |
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Final Exam Due by midday Thursday April 5th 2012 Read this for the exam preparation: Schrage "Why IT Matters" |