MIS assignment 1: Understanding key concepts of MIS and their applications

30 Points, 2022/2023 MBA class

Name:…………………………………………………………………

Section:……………………………………………………………….

Your Organization:………………………………………………..

Instruction: listen to two YouTube videos about the concept you are assigned to.

Summary of the concept Give example application of the

If needed use figure to explain concept in bu/s and Mgt

Video sources (URL): (Video 1)………………………………………………………..

(Video 2)………………………………………………………………

Note: don’t use more than 1 page (No need of cover page)

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 Chapter Contents/ topics student name Remark
Importance of 1. Systems thinking
MIS 2. Information system literacy
Collaboration IS 3. Discussion forms
4. FTP
5. Google Docs
6. Screen sharing
7. Microsoft SharePoint
IS for 8. IS Competitive strategy
competitive
9. Business Process Mgt
Advantage
10. Digital divide
11. Cost of business process
12. Switching costs
13. Blue ocean IS strategy
14. Red ocean strategy
15. Social business strategy
16. Cost leadership
17. Differentiation strategy
18. IS strategy triangle
19. Disruptive technologies
20. Network economics
Hardware and 21. Off the shelf software
Software 22. Open source software
23. PC virtualization
24. Server Virtualization
25. IT infrastructure
26. Software as a service
27. Platform as a service
28. Web 2.0
29. Digital dashboard
Database 30. Databases
Processing 31. Enterprise DBMS
32. Data integration problem
33. Data integration practices
34. Relational databases
35. Distributed databases
36. Data management technologies
Data 37. 3G, 4G, & 5G Networks
communication 38. Band width
39. LAN, WAN
40. Internet Service providers
41. IP address (Public IP, Private IP)
42. VPN (virtual private network)
43. Wireless network
44. Web hosting
Enterprise 45. CRM system
systems 46. Enterprise information system
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 47. SCM
48. Marketing Information System
49. Human Resource Information System
50. Purchasing Information System
Decision making 51. AI and decision making
52. AI for marketing
53. AI for management
54. AI for purchasing
55. Blockchain for finance
56. Blockchain for banking
57. Blockchain for real-estate
management
58. Blockchain for document
management
59. Virtual Reality
60. Balanced score card
61. Data visualization
62. Digital asset management systems
63. Enterprise wide KMS
64. Geographic IS
65. Location analytics
66. Neural networks
67. Predictive analytics
68. Sensitivity analysis
E-commerce, 69. Inter-organizational information
web 2.0, and systems
social 70. Web storefront
networking sites 71. Viral marketing
72. Advertising revenue model
73. Affiliate revenue model
74. Behavioral targeting
75. Digital goods
76. Disintermediation
77. Free revenue model
78. Geo-advertising
79. Information asymmetry
80. Micro payment systems
81. mobile commerce
82. Net marketplaces
83. Price discrimination
84. Price transparency
85. Sales revenue models
86. Subscription revenue model
87. Transaction fee revenue model
88. AdSense
89. AdWords
90. Search engines
91. SEO (search engine optimization)

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 92. SEM (search engine marketing)

Business 93. Google Alerts

Intelligence 94. BI and applications
95. Cluster analysis
96. Cross selling
97. Data aggregator
98. Data mining
99. Data centers
100. Data Management software
101. Exception alert
102. KMS (knowledge management
systems)
103. Big data
104. Business analytics
105. Data driven culture
106. Evidence based Mgt
107. Sentiment analysis
108. Tagging,
109. RSS feed
110. RSS reader ,
111. Data quality audit
112. Information policy
113. Text mining
Business 114. Business analyst
Process and IS 115. Business process identification
dev/t 116. BPM (business process
management)
117. Business process modeling

IS management 118. CIO (chief information system

officer)
119. DB administrator
120. Enterprise application integration

Information 121. Biometric authentication

Security 122. Cookies
Management 123. Denial of Service
124. Digital signature
125. Encryption
126. Information Accuracy
127. Identity theft
128. Information ethics
129. Privacy issues
130. Employee monitoring

IS Governance 131. Centralized IS organization

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 (processing)
132. Decentralized IS orgn (processing)
133. IT governance
134. IT policy
135. IT Charge Backs
Profit centered
Cost centered
Service centered

IS sourcing 136. Cloud computing

137. Crowdsourcing/ Open sourcing
138. IT multi-sourcing
139. Offshoring
140. On shoring
141. Private cloud
142. Public cloud
143. Where are the websites of
Ethiopian companies hosted?
Select websites of:
3 banks
3 hotels
3 import and export organizations
www.whoishostingthis.com
What is the implication of these
practices?
144. IT managed services

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 Assignment 2: Explore different IS applications in business

20 points, MBA class 2022/2023

Name:…………………………………………………………………, Section:……………………………………………………………….

Your Organization:………………………………………………… Your position and department (unit):……………………………….

The objective of this assignment is to help graduate students explore the potential application areas of IS across
business functional areas they are working on. Students also develop the skill of information searching

Part 1

Your job descriptions and specifications (key)

Activities you execute on a daily basis

Data/ document/ information you use on daily basis

Challenges/ problems you frequently face (encounter) and want to see solved with IS

Repetitive and boring parts of the tasks you do daily

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Part 2

In relation to the above:

A. search the internet about any IT applications B. What are the functionalities of the application?
that can solve the problems you stated
(Source):………………………………………………………………….

Max: 2 pages

No: Cover page