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Kenyatta UniversitySchool of Business

Department of Management ScienceMaster of Business Administration

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COURSE OUTLINE

BMS 841: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (45 LECTURE HOURS)

Course Purose

The purpose of this course is to provide students with basic and in-depth understanding of the field of

Management nformation Systems !MS"# its core technologies and its application in business management$

Students will be e%pected to develop a framewor& for understanding and managing information systems in

organi'ations# emphasi'ing what they are# how they affect an organi'ation and its employees# and how they can

enhance business efficiency# effectiveness# and competitiveness$

Course O!"e#$%&es

(t the end of this course# the students should be able to)

a" *utline and pinpoint the different classification of S in real business and the mar&et today+

b" ,redict the future of S in addressing business and managerial problems+

c" ritically evaluate a given business scenario and match it to the necessary MS solutions from a

consultant.e%pert/s point of view+

d" Underta&e practical case analysis to investigate given S phenomena and present the finding in written report$

CONTENTS'EE TOPICS SUB TOPICS

1* INTRO+UCTION TOMIS

i$" Definition of MS

ii$" ,erspective of information systems) definition of information systems# business perspective of

information systems# dimension of information systems$

iii$" ontemporary approaches to information systems

iv$" omponents and activities of information systems

v$" Strategic business ob0ectives of firms investing in information systems

vi$" 1nvironmental developments that call for the need for information systems

vii$" 2ow information technology has transformed organi'ations

viii$" Systems concepts and information systems

,* INFORMATION SYSTEMS- ORGANI.ATIONS- AN+ STRATEGY

i$" ntroduction

ii$" *rgani'ations and nformation Systems

iii$" mpact of S on *rgani'ations and Business 3irms

iv$" Using nformation Systems to (chieve Strategic.ompetitive (dvantage

,orter/s ompetitive 3orces Model

The Business 4alue hain Model

/* IT INFRASTRUCTURE AN+ EMERGING TECHNOLOGIESi$" T infrastructure+ definition and evolution

ii$" nfrastructure components ) 2ardware# software+ systems software# applications software# Data

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management and storage# 5etwor&.telecommunication platforms

iii$" 2ardware and software trends

iv$" Management issues

4* +ATABASES AN+ INFORMATION MANAGEMENTi$" ntroduction) 3ile based and database management systems 6imitations of file based systems

(dvantages and disadvantages of DBMS

ii$" Using Databases to mprove Business ,erformance and Decision Ma&ing Data 7arehouses and data marts

Business ntelligence) *nline (nalytical ,rocessing !*6(," and data mining

5* TELECOMMUNICATIONS AN+ NET'ORSi$" ntroductionii$" 8easons for connecting computersiii$" 3unctions of telecommunication systemsiv$" omponents of telecommunication systemsv$" Types of networ&s

vi$" Telecommunication trendsvii$" Business value impacts of the telecommunications revolution

0* INTERNET AN+ ECOMMERCEi$" The nternetii$" 1-commerce and e-businessiii$" Uni9ue features of e-commerceiv$" 1-commerce Models.optionsv$" (dvantages and disadvantages of 1-ommerce

vi$" Business applications and the nternet

CONTINOUS ASSESSMENT TEST 1

2* CLASSIFICATIONS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

i$" ntroductionii$" Business ,rocesses !functions" and nformation Systems

iii$" 6evels of management and information systems

iv$" Decision ma&ing process and information systems

v$" Types of information systems

*perations support systems) transaction support systems# process control systems#

enterprise collaboration systems

Management support systems) DSS# MS# 1S# 1S

vi$" Systems that span the 1nterprise

1nterprise (pplications

1nterprise Systems) SM Systems# 8M Systems

Knowledge Management Systems

8* INFORMATION SYSTEMS +E3ELOPMENT

i$" ntroduction

ii$" Systems Development and *rgani'ational hange

Business ,rocess 8eengineering

Business ,rocess Management

iii$" 3actors affecting development of information systems : success.failure

iv$" Systems development approaches

Systems development cycle !SD6"

vii$" (lternative system development approaches)

(S1 tools

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,rototyping

(pplication pac&ages

1nd-user development

*utsourcing) B,*# loud computing

viii$" ;lobal nformation Systems

The ;rowth of nternational nformation Systems

*rgani'ing nternational nformation Systems

Managing ;lobal Systems

i%$" The challenge of information systems) &ey management issues

* ISSUES FACE+ BY MIS PROFESSIONS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

i$" Security issues

ii.) 2ealth related issues and ergonomics

iii$" 1thics and social issues of nformation systems

CONTINOUS ASSESSMENT TEST ,

FINAL EAMINATIONS

A#67e%# I9$er%$;

Students will be e%pected to abide by the University 8ules and 8egulations regarding e%aminations and class

attendance$ >?

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