CS 330
Assignment 2
Due Dates
- Monday, January 26, 7 pm, DC 3331, *Before* class - Proposal
- Wednesday, February 18, 12 noon, 3rd Floor MC Assignment Boxes - Written Report
Research Assignment
This assignment may be done individually or in small groups.
Study one specific area of Management Information Systems in depth. This
involves reading *at least* five (5) academic journal articles on the topic.
Note: Journals and magazines are in the basement of the Davis Centre
library. Because of the large class size this term, DO NOT remove
journals from the library. Read them in the library or make copies.
Journals noting an IEEE or ACM designation are good. Call numbers are
in the ballpark of IS Management (HD 28) or Computer Science (QA 76).
If you wish, there are also electronic journals available
from the UW Electronic Library. Go to the UW home page,
then library, then e-journals, or go to
e-journals.
For all presentation methods, you need a 5 page written report on the topic, due Wednesday, February 18.
Choose one of the following three methods of presentation:
(a) Invite, host and report on an industry visitor.
(b) Present a 15-minute in-class seminar.
(c) Do a 5 page web-page presentation due February 18.
1 - Proposals
Please write a short proposal, including your choice of specific topics,
presentation method, seminar dates (for visitors or for individuals), and so on
due in my office (DC 3331) or in class by January 26.
2 - Industry Visitor
- Contact a potential visitor (someone working in a field related to
MIS) and arrange an in-class visit.
- Set date, time, other details. (We can pay for mileage if necessary,
and possibly take the visitor out to lunch, but that's about it in
terms of expenses.)
- Work out details with the visitor: how long they are to talk (one
hour or less), details of what they are to talk about, who their
audience will be, and so on.
- Post details of the talk to uw.cs.cs330 at least two days before the
talk.
- Obtain copies of the visitor's overheads, class handouts, etc.
- Introduce the visitor to the class, and generally act as the host for
the seminar day.
- Prepare discussion ideas, questions, etc. to fill the last 15 to 20
minutes of the class, in case no-one in the class has any questions
of their own. Hand this in with your five-page report on February 18.
- After the talk, field questions and/or lead a 20 minute discussion
with the class and the visitor.
3 - Management Information Systems Seminar
- Focus on a specific area of IS management.
- Prepare and present a 15 minute in-class seminar.
- Post details of the seminar to uw.cs.cs330 at least two days before
the talk.
- Lead a 5 minute question and/or discussion session after the talk.
4 - Web Page Presentation
Same as for seminars, except that your presentation will be in the
form of a 5-page maximum web page, to be up February 18.
Some Topic Suggestions
From the Course Outline and previous course offerings:
- One specific type of information system (Strategic,
Management, Transaction, DSS, EIS, ES, and so on)
- People Issues - HR, education of users and executives
- Service Issues - Help desk, end user support, maintenance,
operations
- IS Planning and Estimating
- Distributed Systems, Architecture, Security
- Data Management
- Outsourcing
- Disaster Planning and Recovery
- CASE Tools
- Fourth and Fifth Generation Languages
- System Development - Legacy, Benefits, Measurement,
Quality, Productivity
- Cost/Benefit of IS
- Mobile Computing/Multimedia/Palm PCs
- EDI/EDM
- Global IT
- Electronic Commerce and subareas