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Course Title: Management Information System

Course No: BIT353

Nature of the Course: Theory + Lab

Semester: 6

Full Marks: 60 + 20 + 20

Pass Marks: 24 + 8 + 8

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

Course Objectives

Course Contents

1. Information Systems in Global Business Today

3 hrs

1.1. What's New in Management Information System?

1.2. Globalization Challenges and Opportunities: A Flattened World

1.3. The Emerging Digital Firm

1.4. Strategic Business Objectives of Information System

1.5. Information System and its Dimensions

1.6. Business Perspective on Information Systems

1.7. Complementary Assets

1.8. Academic Disciplines used to Study Information Systems

1.9. Sociotechnical Systems

2. Global Business and Collaboration

6 hrs

2.1. Business Process and their Relationship to Information System

2.2. Systems for Different Management Groups

2.3. Systems for Linking the Enterprise

2.4. E-business, E-commerce, and E-government

2.5. Collaboration, Social Business, and Benefits

2.6. Building Collaborative Culture and Business Processes

2.7. Tools and Technologies for Collaboration and Social Business

2.8. Information Systems Function in a Business

Information Systems Department

Organizing Information Systems Function

3. Information Systems, Organization, and Strategy

8 hrs

3.1. Organization and its Features

3.2. Impact of Information System on Organizations

Economic Impacts

Organization and Behavioral Impacts

Internet and Organizations

Implications for Design and Understanding of Information Systems

3.3. Porter's Competitive Forces Model

3.4. Dealing with Competitive Forces using Information Systems

3.5. Internet's Impact on Competitive Advantage and Business Value Chain Model

3.6. Challenges Posed by Strategic Information System

4. Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems

7 hrs

4.1. Ethical, Social, and Political Issues raised by Information Systems

Model, Five Moral Dimensions

Key Technology Trends that Raise Ethical Issues

4.2. Responsibility, Accountability, and Liability

4.3. Ethical Analysis, Candidate Ethical Principles

4.4. Professional Codes of Conduct, Real World Ethical Dilemmas

4.5. Information Right, Property Right

4.6. Accountability, Liability, System Quality

4.7. Quality of Life, Health Risks

5. Foundations of Business Intelligence

8 hrs

5.1. File Organization and Problems with Traditional File Environment

5.2. DBMS and its Capabilities

5.3. Designing Databases

5.4. Nonrelational Databases, Cloud Databases, and Blockchain

5.5. Tools and Technologies for accessing Information from Databases to Improve Business Performance and Decision Making

5.6. Big Data Challenges

5.7. Business Intelligence Infrastructure, Analytical Tools

5.8. Assuring Data Quality

6. Key System Applications for Digital Age

7 hrs

6.1. Enterprise Systems

Enterprise Software and Business Value of Enterprise Systems

6.2. Supply Chain Management System

Supply Chain Management Software

Business Value of Supply Chain Management System

6.3. Customer Relationship Management System

Customer Relationship Management Software

Business Value of CRM

6.4. Challenges of Enterprise Applications

6.5. Role of Knowledge Management System in Business

6.6. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Uses of AI in Business

Knowledge Work Systems

7. Enhancing Decision Making

6 hrs

7.1. Types of Decisions, Decision Making Process

7.2. Business Value of Improved Decision Making

7.3. Information System, Management Activities, and Management Decision Making

7.4. Business Intelligence and Business Analytics Support for Decision Making

7.5. Decision Support for Operational, Middle and Senior Management with Business Intelligence

Text Books

1.Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon, 17th Edition, Pearson, 2022.
2.Information Technology Essentials: Introduction to Information Systems Volume 1, Eric Frick, 2017.
3.Management Information Systems, James O'Brien and George Marakas, 10th Edition, McGraw Hill.

Notes:

Source:

This course covers different concepts of management information system including information system in the global business, collaboration and tools, different types of information systems, ethical and social issues, concept of business intelligence, enterprise applications, and decision making.

The main objective of this course is to provide different concepts of management information system to manage business organizations and efficient decision making.

This syllabus follows the official BIT curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university’s published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.