Lecture Notes: MIS in Transportation
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Catalog Description
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"This course introduces the student of transportation and logistics to the theory and practice of how information systems align with and support freight transportation and logistics processes. Focus is placed on the strategic processes of operations control, decision support, and customer in multimodal environments. Process models for these environments are presented and discussed, as are the techniques for data collection and capture, processing, communication, and presentation. The ultimate objective of the course is to provide the student with a working development to deliver usable and effective information systems."
Texts
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Oz, Effy. Management Information Systems Sixth Edition. Boston: Thomson Course Technology, 2009, 1-4239-0178-9
Lecture Notes
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Introduction to the Course and to Management Information Systems in Transportation, Barriers and Catalysts to Global Transportation
Principles for Applying Information Technology
A Note on Business Drivers, Business Configuration, and Information Technology Strategy
Thinking About the Business Configuration
A Note on Strategy and Its Descendants
Note on Building a Management System
Information System Fundamentals
Proposal for an Information Technology Strategy and Planning Project
Managing Information Technology in a New Age
Ethical Issues (no lecture note for this module)
Cultural Acumen for the Global Manager - Lessons from Project GLOBE
The Future, A Small View of a Possible World, The Coming Merger of Mind and Machine, Forward to "The Eternal E-Customer", Notes from the IT Frontline October 1, 2003
Course Project: Management Information Systems in the Global Intermodal Freight Transportation Community