HUANG Lihua, Fudan University

Management Information Systems

Prof. Lihua HUANG

Tel: 65646687 (O) Lhhuang@fudan.edu.cn

TA: Mr. Gang WANG, wg_edison@163.com

Core Course of School of Management at Fudan University

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Super Girl

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Case of GE Company on P5

• Question– Evaluate the value of e-Business and e-

Commerce initiatives in GE Company.

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Why Information Systems are Important?

• Information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) have become an essential field in business and organization administrative and management.

• Applying successfully IT/IS can help to – improve efficiency– Enhance effectiveness– Strengthen competitive position

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Why Information Systems are Important?

• Worldwide spending on information technology is now close to $1 trillion per year, and IT continues to transform the world of business.

• But approximately half of all large-scale funding IT and implementations fail. It's not the competence of the IT and IT department; it's the ability of business management to correctly identify opportunities, find appropriate technologies, and lead adoption efforts to success.

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The Purpose as Core Course in School of Management

• To help, introduce student – build up the mindset and thinking methodology

on modern IT/IS.– learn how to use and manage IT/IS to revitalize

business process, to improve business decision making, and to gain competitive advantage.

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Course Content Framework

InformationSystems

FoundationConcepts

InformationTechnologies

BusinessApplications

IS Development

& BusinessProcess Change

ISManagement

PART I

PART IIPART Ⅲ

PART Ⅳ PART Ⅴ

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Course Characteristics• Teaching and Learning Format

– Lecture, cases-based teaching, reading, group discussion

• Interaction teaching with learning

• Reference Website– http://www.mhhe.com/obrien, Introduction Information S

ystems, 12th edition or 13th edition/ Student – http://vcampus.fudan.edu.cn/Management Information Sy

stems

• Grading– Class participation and contribution 15%– Assignment 15%– Midterm Exam 20%– Final Exam 50%

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Assignment for Session 2

• Reading Materials– Textbook: chapter 1

• Group case discussion for case ‘Mr. Wang’s Pottery Company’– Questions

• Why the Mr. Wang’s Pottery Company build information systems?

• What information systems should the company adopt?• Take an example to illustrate that in the system, people use

hardware, software, data, and network as resource to perform input, processing, output, storage, and control activities that transform data resource to information products.