I have uploaded your grades in the CMS for section I and III . You can check your results on the portal. No phone calls will be entertained in this regard.
Please note that 13 quizzes that you took are contracted as three quizzes: 1,2,3,4 forming quizz one, 5,6,7,8 forming quizz two, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 forming quizz three. Each quizz weighs 6 marks and two best readings have been selected. Thus overall grading plan and weightage remain intact but results show improvement.
The quiz will be from the articles 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4. First three articles you had prepared even for the last quiz also so in a nutshell this time round you have to only prepare for article 8.4 in addition to brushing up the ones you are already done with.
Prepare for Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 of your text as well as the IS Audit in line with the guest speaker lecture.
You can download the guest speaker presentation on IT Risk Management from: http://www.4shared.com/file/95414239/646b7501/IT_Risk_Management_032009.html
In addition wikipedia has a very usefull article on IS Audits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology_audit
Don't forget to take a look at different certifications in the field provided at the end of the article like CISA, CIA, CAP, CISM....
I have grabed an opportunity as Mr. Sajid Khan is in the city to be our guest speaker for tomorrow's class. He will be delivering his talk/presentation on IT Risk Management. Besides holding Ph.D. he is bringing to our class some 18 years of global prfessional experience with fourteen years in IT Assurance and Risk Management and 4 years in IT Systems and Development.
Both classes will meet in room 8 and 9 at 1030AM for the session. There will be attendance at the start and anyone leaving during the session without geting his name registered with me will be marked absent.
I would be writing this assignment in 3 parts and subsequent assignments will be linked to it.
In first part you are required to create you own weblog with any free blog provider. The core purpose of the blog will be to discuss your studies and intellectual makeup with the outerworld. The issues that touch you most, it may be politics, arts, literature, science, technolology, sports or any other thing that is of interest to you, that whcih drive you, that which keep you going, that which define you, that whcih gives you sense of purpose in life. In doing so you would also like to showcase your university skills, works that you had done before or doing it here in my course or in some other course. Of course I am also asking to put up a page about yourself. If appropriate, a nice formal pic etc..
Spend some time giving your blog a catchy but meaningful title.
You can take further help from the wikibook on An Introduction to Weblogs (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Introduction_to_Weblogs) for making a blog. Section 2 directly explains the steps required to quickly make a blog using the blogger service.
You can also find insight into the blogging at: http://weblogs.about.com/od/?once=true&
Now include the RSS Feed gadget in you blog. In Blogger this gadget can be added by going to Customize-Layout-Page Elements.
Pick up a nice new template. Select appropriate fonts and colors.
Now goto Settings and set all approprate settings. Add some description to your blog. Change all to a meaningful advantage.
Enable backlinks. See what they are? and experiment with them.
Dont forget to upload your homeworks that you have done so far. Summaries that you have taken of the lectures, presentations (if any) , or any other related work.
Add an article on your hobbies, include some pics to show your collections etc...
Include a section to give a list of the books that you have found interesting... on any subject of your interest... but should not be textbooks...
Include a section of places that you have visited... some pics or history of those places....
Include a post on the wish list ....
and about the childhood dreams ... you may want to hear Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture before that...
Include any other material that is of your interest.
I will be updating this post in few hours for the third part of the assignment.
Overall average (i.e. of both sections put to gether) is 79.6 percent whereas section one performed better with 82.8 percent and section three averaged 76.5 percent.
Shoaib Ahmed Zaki of section three is the highest scorer in both sections with 93.6 percent score where as Anam Manzar is highest in section one by scoring 93.2 percent.
Here are the percentile results:
Percentile Score
83 13.4
70 13.0
60 12.51
54 12.42
50 12.26
31 11.51
Each one of you can look at his/her own score wihtout anyaccounting for any makeup to find out his/her percentile rank. Lets say if you have scored 12.6, your fall in under 60th percentile because it is more than 12.51 but less than 13 to qualifiy for 70th percentile. It would be interpreted as atleast there were 60 percent test takers (i.e. both sections inculded) who score less than you! or alternately you may interpret it as: you are among the top 40 percent of the those who took this test. It can be a great tool to help you understand your ranking in the course.
Now few other interpretations that comes handy when we look at this percentile data. Section one's averge is 12.42 which is equivalent to 54th percentile meaning 54 percent of the entire test takers scored less than this average. Section three on the other hand has an average of 11.48 close to 31st percentile meaning only 31 percent scored belower than this!.
So it means section 3 has performed slower than the section one. This may be due to the fact that four people could only attain grade F!
Anybody who has scored less than 10.65 occupies bottom 20 percent of the pool! and anybody scoring less than 10 is in the last 10 percent of the test takers.
67 percent of section one has scored more than 80 percent whereas 43 percent of section three has scored more than 80 percent.
Finally read your scores with 4 percent makeup points! This will help us reduce the 'fat tail' of section three and for section one it will be time for bonus.
I am starting this series of posts to discuss the concept of Web2.0. To begin with visit as many of these sites as you can, take a look at their product range, feel the difference and comment here.
Now is the time for me to expand on the web 2.0 after I have defined the terms Ajax, Masups, ASP, blogs ... It is lot more easier to define what web 2.0 is not rather than what it is. It is not a version of some technology or software rather a new generation of web technology usage.
Accoring to Tim O'reily:
"Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform."
For more involved reading I would suggest to consult wikipedia before we move any further. So I am hoping more views on this to further the debate.
Topic:
“Management of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship – Key to Success in the 21st century”.
Speaker: Syed Zahoor Hassan
Brief Profile of the speaker:
Professor in the Suleman Dawood School of Business at LUMS. Dr Hassan has served LUMS in many capacities besides his teaching and research, including Associate Dean, Dean, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Vice chancellor.
You will be given class attendence and a point for participation. Additional CP points can be earned by puting an intelligent question. (if any)
I will assign readings in the class for this, so come prepared to discuss.
To start with browse Cambridge's Centre for Technology Managment: (http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/ctm/)
Note: Ofcourse therewill be no class on saturday instead this session will be suffice.
Generally blogs fall in one of these categories or mix of these. The following image can help understand that:
See and guess in which segment our blog falls?
[Both personal and professional topics are equally popular. Forty percent of bloggers consider their blogging topics outside of these categories. “Other” blog topics include: 2008 election, alternative energy, art, beauty, blogging, comics, communication, cooking/food, crafts, design, environment, internet/Web 2.0, Jamaica, and media/journalism.
Three-quarters of bloggers cover three or more topics. The average number of topics blogged about is five.
There were some global differences. Music is more popular and politics is less popular in Asia, while personal, lifestyle, and religious topics are less popular in Europe.] From Technorati's Report
Some of the reasons why people should blog are: (and it holds tru for pakistani bloggers too)
You can take complete view of the reasons with charts to get more on this in the report.
One in four bloggers spends ten hours or more blogging each week. The most influential bloggers are even more prolific.
Over half of the Technorati top authority (http://support.technorati.com/faq/topic/71) bloggers post five or more times per day, and they are twice as likely to tag their blog posts compared to other bloggers.
Can someone among you help me explain what does this term means? You can take a look at the given link first.
On future of blogging the report says...
“There will be more blogs used in education, particularly among K-12 students and teachers. Bookmarks will merge with blogs for those of us who use our blogs as note-pads or filing cabinets. Blog archives will be viewed as a rich source of cultural history. Blogs will be a means for more collaborative team work. People will expect businesses, media, and print organizations, even government organizations, to have some form of blog, in order to promote communication. Blogging will also help to provide insight to businesses about their consumers.”
Lynn Marentette
“Although today's form of blogging is a volunatary form of self-expression, in the future our experiences, actions, locations, and preferecnes will be auto-recorded directly to the web.”
“The future of blogging will be an auto-synching of our lives directly to the web —often a quiet recording in the background”
Jeremiah Owyang
Senior Analyst, Social Computing
[already quoted in one of my comments on blogosphere post]
Hope this would have helped understand the nature of blogosphere further especially to those who did not take a look at the technorati report on the state of blogoshoere 2008.
check out the following link on your text's companion website for useful tips..
http://wps.prenhall.com/bp_laudon_mis_10/62/15945/4081979.cw/index.html
DONOT FORGET TO PREPARE FOR THE SECOND QUIZ FROM 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.
1. Prepare the case at the end of the chapter
Briefly answer the questions in your folder. At least first two questions.
2. Read Hands-on MIS section and attempt the exercises
3. Analyze the IS with the help of diagram (as we did in the class) for second interactive session: Managing travel expenses: New tools, new savings.
1. Advance reading of 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3
Write answer to related review questions in your folder (1 to 11)
1 Explore and answer short case questions in students file
2 Hands-on MIS (section)
Understanding Information System Requirements. Read the problem set and try answering the questions in your folder
3 Reading my blog and adding your comments
4 Preparing for first quiz Reading 1.1 and 1.2
5 Preparing Case : Morgan Stanley’s Return on System Noninvestement
Your folders may be checked for handwritten notes
7 Group Tasks
G2: Using Internet Software to Budget for shipping costs
Power point presentation mailed to me latest by Tuesday 4:00PM
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Introduction_to_Weblogs
This is a wikibook on web blogs. It covers the terminology, its history, use and influence. It also teaches you how to create your own blog.
State of the Blogosphere / 2008
http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/
This is a report by Technorati on the state of blogosphere and emreging facts.
Israel takes battle with Hamas to YouTube
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians_youtube
This news item is an example of how important blogosphere is? Even militaries cannot afford to do away with it!. and how blogosphere affects the mainstream media?
Week 1
10 & 14 Jan 2009
Information Systems in Global Business Today(Chapter 1)
Why Information Systems
Contemporary Approaches to Information Systems
Toward the Digital Firm: The New Role of Information Systems in Organizations
Learning to Use Information Systems: New Opportunities with Technology.
Week 2
17 & 21 Jan 2009
Information Systems in the Enterprise (Chapter 2)
Key System Applications in the Organization
Systems from a Functional Perspective and constituency perspective
Integrating Functions and Business Processes
Collaborative Commerce, E-commerce, E-business, and E-Government
Enterprise applications
Week 3
24 & 28 Jan 2009
Information Systems, Organizations and Strategy (Chapter 3)
Organizations and Information Systems
The Changing Role of Information Systems in Organizations
Information Systems and Business Strategy
Week 4
31 Jan 09 & 4 Feb 09
Ethical and Social Issues in the Digital Firm (Chapter 4)
Understanding Ethical and Social Issues Related to Systems
Ethics in an Information Society
The Moral Dimensions of Information Systems
Week 5
7 & 11Feb 2009
IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies (Chapter 5)
Evolution of IT infrastructure
Infrastructure components
Trends and Emerging technologies (software and hardware)
Week 6
12 – 18 Feb 2009
First Term Exam
21 Feb 09
Guest Speaker [dates may vary as per guests availability]
Week 7
25 & 28 Feb 2009
Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management (Chapter 6)
Organizing Data in a Traditional File Environment
The Database Approach to Data Management
Using databases to improve business performance and decision making
Database Trends
Week 8
4 & 7 Mar 2009
Telecommunications, the Internet and Wireless Technology(Chapter 7)
The Telecommunications Revolution
Communications Networks
The Internet
The wireless revolution
Week 9
11 & 14 Mar 2009
Securing Information Systems (Chapter 8)
System Vulnerability and Abuse
Business Value of Security and Control
Establishing a framework for security and control
Technologies and tools for security
Week 10
18 & 21Mar 2009
Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications (Chapter 9)
Enterprise Systems
SCM and CRM systems
Week 11
24 – 30 Mar 2009
Second Term Exams
Week 12
1 & 4 Apr 2009
Managing Knowledge (Chapter 11)
Knowledge Management in the Organization
Enterprise-wide KMS KWS: Knowledge Work Systems
Expert Systems
Other Intelligent Techniques
Week 13
8 & 11 Apr 2009
Enhancing Decision-Making (Chapter 12)
Decision making and information systems
Decision-Support Systems (DSS)
Group Decision-Support Systems (GDSS)
Executive Support in the Enterprise (ESS)
Week 14
15 & 18 Apr 2009
Project Presentations
Week 15
22 & 25Apr 2009
Project Presentations
Week 16
29 Apr 2009 &
2 May 2009
Redesigning the Organization with Information Systems (Chapter 12) [if time permitted ]
Systems as Planned Organizational Change
Business Process Reengineering and Total Quality Management (TQM)
Overview of Systems Development Alternative System-Building Approaches
Application Development for the Digital Firm
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