Project Presentations - Saturday Schedule

We need to start presentations on Saturday as soon as possible since there are unexpected number of project groups on that day. I have not given any reserved time slot to any team since I need to finish one by one soon as the previous one finishes. Anyway the order of presentation as the given schedule. Therefore the first team should be present the university premises at 8.30AM. The venue will be in Physics department. But the exact room will known then and there.

Team leaders must make sure to bring the list of names of there group members as the order they present themselves during the presentation.

Project Presentation Schedule

The presentation schedule attached here. Make sure that you will be present on time. As you can see there will be a tight schedule for this. In a case that we cannot complete any individual presentation within 20min we will have a problem. Team leaders must make sure that the presentation will be finished within the given time period.

On Saturday there will be a presentation for who cannot participate on week days. If there are any such team who is having problems in participating on 14th and 15th as the attached schedule, then they can inform me. I can arrange to have it on Saturday(The starting time on Saturday not yet known. Once I know it I will update the post). Also keep in mind, in an event that we could not finish any planned sessions on 14th and 15th (Due to presentations more than 20min) I have to move the non finished planned sessions on the same day to Saturday. Please be prepare for such occurrences.

Team leaders must make sure to come with relevant presentation (such as .ppt or any other applicable format). The projector will be provided. Since the presentation will be run on a common PC, team leaders must make sure the diskettes or pen drives are free from viruses.

There will be no more room for Saturday sessions. We have moved several presentations to Saturday. As you can see on the current schedule there are empty slots on presentation. If you wish to have your session early than planned utilizing these empty slots please come and meet me in PCR.

Project Presentation Schedule

Project Presentations

Due to the SAARC summit we could not hold the project presentation as we planned before. The new presentation dates will be published soon. Most probably it will be on next week (Week starting on 10th of August.) The schedule will be published along with dates.

The project presentations will be on 14th and 15th August 2008 at PCR during afternoon sessions. The presentation schedule will be published soon.

Assignment Hand Over

Due to the closure of university there are some problems in submitting the reports as the given deadline. In that case make sure to submit the report on the very first date that the university opens. But all assignments must publish on web.

Group Assignment – System Study - DEADLINE

The time line for the system study as follows

1. The complete report should be submitted on or before 29th of July 2008. (To the science faculty office)
2. The soft copy of the report should be published on the blog before 29th of July 2008.
3. The report must include the team members clearly. No changes allowed once the report submitted.
4. The presentation will be on 4th and 5th August 2008.
5. Each member must participate in presenting the project.
6. As mentioned before the presentation should be limited to 20 minutes.

Group Assignment – System Study

Select an organization of your choice and get permission from the relevant authorities of the organization in order to do a System Study. The scope of the study may cover the entire organization or part of the organization which covers reasonable volume and varieties of information flow.

When doing the System Study, identify the Business Processes, Information Flows and IT-Infrastructure.

Prepare a group wise report which includes the following:

• Description of the Business Processes, Information Flows and IT-Infrastructure. You may also use relevant models or diagrams to describe.
• Suggest any improvements or new implementation.
• It could be with regard to the IT-Infrastructure.
• If the suggestion is relevant to the database then propose the table structures, etc.
• Indicate how you would make your new suggestion implemented considering the organization culture.

Also you should prepare a group-wise 20 minutes presentation where each member should present part of the presentation.

Managing Information Systems - All Notes Added

All notes related to Managing Information Systems have been added here.

1. Organizing Information Systems Activities
2. Controlling and Securing Information Systems
3. Ethical Management of Information Systems and Technology

IT Infrastructure - Tutorial 4

Click here for the IT Infrastructure Tutorial 4.

Please do the exercises given in the tutorials. It will be very helpful for the exams as well.

Field Visit - For those who missed

We are organizing a field visit to IFS again on 16-May-2008.

Among those who missed the previous visits, those who like to join this visit, please come to IFS, 501 Galle Road Colombo 6, on 16-May-2008 (Friday) at 3:30pm.
You should bring your University Identity Card.
Please do not bring bags.

Kindly note, there will be no more field visits organized to IFS for this batch of MIS Students.

If required, you may contact me on the mobile 0775851661.

Printing the Presentation Slides Available in Blog

You can easily print the presentation slides available in the blog. These are the steps you need to follow.

1. Select the link which the presentation slide published.
2. Then you will move to a new window with a mini presentation (small size presentation). Also you could see a link named "View published presentation in a new window". Select that link.
3. The you will see the complete presentation and within that window (Right hand lower corner) you will see a link named "Print Slides". Select that link.
4. Then you get the printing dialog. There you can remove the background image if you think it is too dark to print. Otherwise you could print the entire slide with the background. Also you can decide how many slides you need to print on a single sheet using the "Layout" selection box.
5. Also note, if you need the presentation in PDF format, you can see in the print preview dialog a button named "Save as PDF". From that option you can save or open the file in .PDF format.

If you have any question on this, please post a comment.

Business Fundamentals - All Notes Added

Complete set of notes was included and published on previous post on Business Fundamentals. Try to come with those notes to the lecture which is convenient to you.

Field Visit for those who missed

We are planning to have one more field visit arranged for those who missed the earlier field visits.

Those who are interested please contact your batch mate Chathurika who will collect the names of the participants. Discuss with her and come up with suitable dates for the visit. The suitable dates should be a weekdays. Based on your available days let me try to arrange a field visit to IFS.

Keywords - Project Management

Please click here for the keywords in Project Management

Information System Development And Management

Please click here for the keywords on "Information System Development and Management".

IT Infrastructure - Tutorial 3

Click here to see the IT-Infrastructure tutorial 3.

Field Trip - Rescheduled

Today (2008-03-26) I have rescheduled the Field Trip again, since we could not have the fields trips on the previous days.

Please recheck the schedule!!!!!!!

If your name is not there in the schedule please contact me over the phone(0775851661).
You may swap your schedule with any of your batch-mates.

Business Fundamentals

This section includes all notes will be delivered during this sessoin. Please put any comments/questions regarding any issues related to Business Fundamentals under this section. This section will be updated with more notes in future.

1. Learning Objectives
2. Why? - Business Fundamentals
3. Management Opportunities, Guidelines and Solutions
4. Road Map

Contents

1. Nature of a Business
2. The Organization of a Business
3. How IS Impacts on Organizations and Businesses
4. Basic Business Information Processing
5. Information Systems and Businesses

Review Questions

1. Review Questions

Field Visit

For the Field Visit, though I aked you to come as a team, now it is OK to come to IFS individually at 3:30pm on the date specified for you in the Schedule.
You will have to wait in the visitors room at IFS.
When all the members are arrived, the team will be taken for the demo.
Please be on time!!!!!!!!

Please recheck your schedules published.

Information Systems in Enterprises - MIS in Action (Practicals) - Updated Teams

All teams have been included. If any team is missing do inform.
Teams

Field-Visit Schedule

Please click here to see the Field-Visit Schedule.
This list has been prepared based on the attendace to lectures.

Also please note the following.
1. Bring your NIC and the University ID.
2. Do not bring bags.
3. Do not come individually, but come with your team.

Field Visit to IFS

We will take the MIS Students on a field visit to IFS !!!!!

Further information will be given during the coming lecture.

IT-Infrastructure Tutorial 2

Here comes the IT-Infrastructure Tutorial 2. (Click the link)

IT-Infrastructure Tutorial 1

Here comes the 1st IT-Infrastructure Tutorial, consisting some basic and straightforward questions.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dggm9rb4_1fs8qj7g8

IT Infrastructure - Assignment 1

"One of the coffee shop owners in Colombo city wants to provide Internet facilities to his customers who come to have snacks and drinks in his restaurant. He assumes maximum 10 members would use the Internet at any given time in his restaurant.

He wants to know what IT Infrastructure would be required to have this new service to his customers. Also he likes to know the cost of that IT-Infrastructure if this new service to be started within coming two months."

Please prepare an "Executive Summary Report" (1 page report; anyway not more than 2 pages) giving information about the required IT-Infrastructure and the costs.

Information Systems in Enterprises - Review Questions

This section include the review questions have been added under Information Systems in Enterprises.

Review Questions

Information Systems in Enterprises - MIS in Action (Practicals)

This section includes the some on-hand exercises in Information Systems in Enterprises. Please perform it as a group project. And publish your assignment as a group on the blog. Not as an individual.
1. Mis In Action - Practicals
2. Sample Data Sheet

The teams have been attached here. Teams.

I assume there should be more teams. I can see from the attendence sheet there are lots of missing names on the groups.

All teams must follow the below guideline

1. All teams should prepare a MS power point presentation(.ppt) over their analysis on the assignment.
2. This presentation should include all assumptions you made. You can decide any assumption what ever suits to the requirement.
3. In any case you feel that you do not have enough information on the assignment itself, then go ahead with the assignment with a suitable assumption.
4. All finished presentation should be published on the blog.
5. It is ideal if cross groups can give comments on others assignments and post them on the blog. This will improve your ability on commenting on an assignment and also will give you a chance to see what others did on their assignment. Then you can improve your assignment based on others experience.
6. All assignments should be published on this blog before 10th of March 2008.

IT Infrastructure Keywords

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dggm9rb4_046cfk9g3

The document given by the above link gives some of the Important Keywords that relate to IT Infrastructure.

The MIS Students of UoC are expected to go through this document and start learning/searching/understanding the keywords mentioned abouve in the document.

Please consider the words written in Italics as not important, in this document.

Information Systems in Enterprises

This section consists with how an information system would serve the different interest of an enterprise. Defining information systems both in technical and functional perspective helps students to understand what an information system is and how they distinguish the technical and functional nature of a system. Evaluating the role of information systems in today's competitive business environment guides students in understanding actual business challenges in today's global market.

Information Systems in Enterprises - Learning Objectives

Learning objectives in this section available at Learning Objectives

Why Information Systems?

This section includes how the Information System literacy empowers people regardless of area they work with.
Why Information Systems?

Information Systems in Enterprises - Road Map

This sections ellaborate what the course contents are, and how we reach to the final goal of understanding - Information Systems in Enterprises. Road Map

Information Systems in Enterprises - Contents

This section includes all the areas to be discussed under this title. This covers the actual subject contents. Contents

Management Opportunities, Guidelines and Solution

This section includes the management opportunities, guidelines and solutions in respect to Information Systems in Enterprises. It is available at Management Opportunities, Guidelines and Solution.

Some thoughts about work-force talent

This is a recommondation from AMR Research on work-force talent. It simply ellaborate on areas that employers should look at in recruting and retaining their employees. Have a look and see on how you need to empower yourself in broader perspective.
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dswk3z4_16f5jfrdhj

MIS General Section Outline

Mananagement Information System Course for 3rd year B.Sc students in University of Colombo. The general course outline of each section could be found here.
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dswk3z4_14gx42w5f7