4. Information Technology

Lectures : 3 hrs/week Theory :100 Marks
Practicals : 2 hrs/week Term Work : 25 Marks

Section - I

1. Organizations, Environments & Information Technology : The new world of
business, Examples of Information systems at work world wide, Information
technology developments and trends, why should you learn about information
technology? (4)

2. Information Technologies : concepts and managements ? Information
systems concepts and definitions, classification of information systems,
transactional and functional processing, operational, managerial and strategic
systems, information infrastructure and architecture, Managing information
resources. (4)

3. Strategic Information systems : Strategic advantage and information
technology, Porter?s competitive forces model and strategies, Porter?s value
chain analysis model, strategic information systems frameworks, A framework
for global competition, strategic information systems application. (4)

4. Business Process Re-engineering & Information Technology : Basic
concepts & need for BPR, principles of BPR & the role of IT, BPR &
restructuring the organization, The networked organizations, Virtual
corporations, Total quality management and re-engineering, Implementing re-
engineering. (5)

Section - II

5. Network computing: Discovery, communication & collaboration ? The
Internet, Groupware technology & infrastructure, Some internet implementation
topics. (4)

6. Electronic Commerce: Foundation of E-commerce, Business to consumer
applications, business-to-business applications. (5)

7. Impacts of IT on Organizations, Individuals and Society: Does it have only
positive effects? Ethical issues, impacts on organization, impacts on individuals
at work, Societal impacts and the internet community. (4)

8. Supporting Management and Decision making: The Managers and decision
making, decision support systems, Corporate-level decision support, Advance
decision support topics. (4)

Books:
1. Information Technology for Management ? Turban, McLean, Wetherbe
nd
(John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2
Edi.)
2. Information systems, theory and practice ? John Burch Jr., Felix Strater Jr.
(Hamilton publishing compamy)
3. Information system design ? Brookes, Grouse, Jeffery and Lawrence
(PHI).