25 courses with the subject MIS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Introductory course to Management of Information Systems, a core business function. The course examines how information systems (i.e., information technology, people, procedures, and data) help add value to an organization, and integrate the various functional areas of a business (e.g., accounting, marketing, etc.).
Introduces structured and object-oriented systems analysis and design methodologies in classroom and hands-on lab settings. Discusses system life-cycle concepts and techniques such as dataflow diagrams, structure charts, and E-R diagrams. Also covers object-oriented design, prototyping, and rapid application development approaches.
Covers data and file structures, object-oriented database design, and the use of SQL for querying databases. Discusses logical and physical database design and offers hands-on experience with commercial database management systems (DBMSs).
To discuss Management of Information Systems, and then to elaborate on its application to organizational change, especially to reengineering. This course will introduce the student to central aspects of MIS policy and strategy in the first part of the course and then use these concepts to understand reengineering in the latter part of the course.
To introduce the student to issues in managing the outsourcing of Information Systems. This will be done in a mixture of lectures and student team presentations. The lectures will introduce the students to some of the central themes of outsourcing IS by summarizing current literature. Parallel to these lectures students will form study teams to investigate other important topics of IS outsourcing through a guided literature reading.
This course is an introductory course to the process and tools necessary to build a complete information system given a specification. In this course, you will learn basic concepts and techniques in computer programming. This course selects Microsoft Visual Studio.Net and C# as the software development environment and programming language. This language and development system is a complete suite of tools for creating stand-alone applications, portions of larger systems, independent objects, complete distributed systems, and active components of the World Wide Web.
The course is structured around the key phases of a project lifecycle – initiating a project, planning a project, executing a project, controlling a project, and closing out a project. It also pays specific attention to the nine knowledge areas of Project Management as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI)’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK): project scope, cost, time, integration, quality, communication, risk, human resources, and procurement management. Additionally, students will be introduced with choices in project management approaches (such as SAP Project Management and APM.
This course provides a foundation for the management of information security systems. It includes an overview of some key technology concepts that are pertinent for the management of information security systems, while also exploring core legal, governance, risk management, and compliance concepts. The course is taught as a combination of lectures, hands-on group activities, readings and videos.
Cloud computing offers organizations elastic, fine-grained, on-demand, pay-for-use computing resources, such as CPU power, memory, storage, or data transfer. The flexibility of the cloud allows customers to scale system capacities rapidly up or down, which entails lower computing expenses than with fixed, internally maintained resources. Enterprise cloud systems also foster resilience by enabling quicker deployment of new systems to support rapid changes in organizational processes and missions. This course focuses on the business and IT-related aspects of cloud computing and includes direct experience with the cloud services of one or more leading providers.
In this course, we will examine a variety of IS issues which are important to organizations, including information systems strategy, impact of IT on organization and work processes, business process reengineering, systems architecture and project management.
Information Technology (IT) infrastructure must be aligned with an organization's strategy and operations to ensure optimal benefits. This class uses the principles of DevOps to examine operational alignment for IT infrastructure. Students learn how different IT infrastructures are matched to different operational profiles to maximize effectiveness. Students will also be exposed to cross-domain alignment: the ways in which top-level IT and business strategies affect operations. This includes how IT strategy affects business operations and how business strategy guides IT operations and infrastructure. Finally, students learn how new modes of system delivery meet the needs of business operations in hypercompetitive environments.
Examines concepts of the information systems development lifecycle and methods for analyzing user information requirements. Focuses on structured techniques for designing a system, managing its development and testing, performing feasibility analyses, and ensuring both user satisfaction and achievement of functional requirements. Covers techniques such as rapid application development (RAD), prototyping, and joint analysis and design (JAD) in detail. Also covers techniques such as data flow diagramming, logical database design, and user interface design.
Contemporary Information Technology (IT) ecosystems include multiple infrastructure components, applications, and performance monitoring tools, which may be located within or external to an organization. In this course, students learn how a firm's IT assets are procured, deployed, integrated, and managed. This includes licensing and service level agreements (SLAs), cost center (shared services) and profit center approaches for IT infrastructure, approaches for identifying and remediating problems with IT operations, and best practices for securing IT assets. Machine learning for IT operations management is also covered.
Examines the theory of DSS for use in supporting managerial decision making. Also discusses EIS, KBS, data mining, and data warehousing. Describes the benefits of online analytical processing (OLAP) to the organization and how they can be measured. Includes the development and use of DSS by student groups in a case study.
Focuses on database analysis and design for a wide range of business functions. Stresses the fundamentals of sound logical database design using techniques such as entity/relationship modeling. Examines the relational database and the object-oriented approaches to database design and handles specific design methods, such as normalization. Also discusses physical database design and data storage methodologies such as raid and hierarchical storage management (HSM). Involves a hands-on orientation with the use of tools such as oracle, Access, and Visual Basic.
This course introduces students to data mining through Base Programming, applied statistics, and data visualization methods in SAS. In this course, students learn to solve statistical problems rigorously and think critically with data analysis in SAS. Students acquire the analytical skills in SAS programming, capabilities in recognizing data patterns and visualizing the results.
Today’s business climate has created a data-driven economy, generating large amounts of data. Storage and processing of such large-scale datasets requires specialized software tools such as Apache Hadoop. The mission of this course is to introduce students to the fundamentals of Hadoop and MapReduce.
This course focuses on the fundamentals of computer programming with Python and its applications in business practices. Specific emphasis will be placed on solving optimization problems and building predictive models widely used by industry (e.g., network optimization and churn models). Using the Python interpreted programming language, students will develop coding skills and be able to efficiently solve today's relevant business problems.
Ties together concepts from all areas of management and the economic, behavioral, functional, and technical aspects of MIS. Defines overall and context-specific information needs of organizations and focuses on the role of MIS in meeting these needs. Examines alternatives for matching MIS department structures and operations to the structures, strategies, and behaviors of organizations. Also investigates, proposes, and analyzes management policy issues relating to the management of the MIS function.
This course explores the current and potential future impact of emerging technologies on organizations and their core business operations, namely, accounting, finance, management and operations. Students will gain insights into these technologies and examine the challenges and opportunities of integrating the technologies into the organization. Other topics covered include managing change and legal and privacy issues resulting from emerging technologies.
Digital platforms exist in various forms, such as electronic markets where participants exchange products and services, or core IT products that bring communities of businesses and consumers together. Incumbents as well as start-ups can build digital platforms to enter new markets or launch digital innovations. This course introduces students to the various types of digital platforms and the opportunities they offer. By studying the dynamics in this arena, students learn about the various forms of coordination and competition that exist in digital ecosystems, and what strategies firms have employed to succeed there. Additionally, students gain understanding of the changes that take place in markets and industries when digital platforms emerge.
The course presents a balances presentation of the risks and benefits of outsourcing and what should be the objectives and mindset of successful outsources. It also discusses the appropriate skill set, how to approach this risky endeavor. Although concentrating on information systems outsourcing, it lessons apply to other types of outsourcing.
This introductory course will cover the core principles, practices, and frameworks of agile practices and how they can be utilized to drive successful delivery inside an organization. These concepts also tie into the idea of organizational change, and how an enterprise can use these practices and principles on a large scale to shift an organization to one that reacts to change and opportunity at speed to enable success. The course will also emphasize these learnings in the context of real-world Management Information Systems (MIS) projects. Additionally, some related emerging topics such as international/distributed project management and design thinking all in the context of agile methodologies will also be introduced.
Design Thinking is a human-centered, collaborative approach to designing new services and products that has become popular in the context of digital innovations. Design thinking can also be applied to strategies and roadmaps, organizational structures, and processes-related problems. This course teaches the core principles, practices, and frameworks of design thinking, and how they can be utilized to drive successful business outcomes. Topics discussed include: the philosophy, concepts of design thinking, the process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, implement), customer and team collaboration, identification of customer needs, and value-driven product design.
This course examines essential concepts in ERP (enterprise resource planning) and the software that supports operational processes in modern companies. We will use SAP ERP solutions, taking a hands-on approach to applications areas such as procurement, production, fulfillment, or related business processes. After completing this course, students will be equipped with practical skills and competencies for careers in business and information technology where ERP software is used.
Source: Drexel University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
