UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

ISMG 6200 - GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Course Instructor: Bob Kuo, Ph.D.
bkuo@carbon.cudenver.edu

http://www.carbon.cudenver.edu/~bkuo

Course Introduction and Objectives: The world has changed dramatically in the past decade. One driving force behind this change is information technology that now connects virtually every part of the world and fundamentally changes the way all business are conducted. Internet and World Wide Web are now key component of business competitiveness. In addition, a spectrum of information technology has been deployed by Multinational corporations (MNCs) to support critical operations such as sales management, production scheduling, and R&D.

This course's main objective is for students to study how information culture may vary in different countries, how this variation may impact the adoption of information technologies, and how various information technologies can be used to strengthen the business competitiveness globally. Internet and World Wide Web are used as the vehicle to demonstrate the capabilities of these technologies. Students are expected to learn managerial issues pertaining to development of global information systems. The emphasis is placed upon the interaction of many technological, political, and cultural issues and on how advances in information technology might change the business conduct in the future.

Prerequisite: BUSN 6100, BUSN 6610, Knowledge of data communication, or three graduate credit hours in information systems.

Class Participation: Class participation is an important factor in grade determination. Each student is responsible for any material covered and any assignments and announcements made in regularly scheduled class meetings.

Course Materials: Reading set, including articles from The Economist and CACM as well as Harvard Business cases.

Course Approach: We will rely on the readings, electronic discussions on assigned readings, and threaded discussions on projects and cases to convey the bulk of knowledge, but the important learning experience is the participation and development of the exercises and projects.

Policies and Procedures for on-line courses:

• This course, being on line, is more convenient, but not easier. Students should expect to spend time overcoming technical difficulties that s/he may encounter throughout the semester.
• One characteristic of cybertalk is that it requires more, not less, advanced writing skills. Your should check the grammar and spelling of your messages. You should also make sure that the message is easily understandable by others. You should adhere to commonly accepted codes of ethical, personal, and civil conducts when conversing on line. The instructor cannot and will not be held responsible for the content of any personal messages which are sent from one student directly to another.
• To keep personal matters private, please do not include personal information such as phone, SSN, addresses, etc. when e-mailing to the entire class.
• The attachment document file should be limited to MS Word.
• In case of technical failure, please contact your ISP immediately. If the matter is not resolved in 12 hours, send the instructor a message.

1. Introduction
2. Hitchhiker’s guide to cybernomics Project I
3. The death of distance
4. A connected world Cybersmith
5. Cybersmith
6. In search of perfect market & Cybersmith

Inside the knowledge factory

7. Strategy and new economics of information
8. Marketing and the internet Project II Project I
9. Markting and the internet, cont. Southwire
10. Southwire case
11. Web Information Systems Southwire
12. Web information systems, cont. Sun Micro
13. Sun Microsystems case
14. Digital library Sun Micro
15. Digital library cont.
16. The Singapore Experience Project II

Note: The above schedule could be modified to accommodate necessary changes.