OMIS 462: Business Systems Development

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OMIS 462 Business Systems Development
Professor Chuck Downing Course meets M/W
330-445 during Fall 2009, BH 315. Please
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Tech Wreck, Dot Bombs, etc.???!!!!
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Check out previous patterns of Speculation, Bust,
and Re-growth
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Check the pattern for canals, electricity,
automobiles, radio, etc.
WOAAA!!! Pets.com doesnt have a good business
model!! Sell, sell, SELL!!!!
Oooh, cool innovation buy, buy, BUY!!!
Ah, the innovation really WAS good. Slow,
rational build out. The Golden Age.
about 30 years
Time
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But speculative bubbles, it's worth remembering,
have accompanied everything truly "new" in U.S.
economic history, from canal mania in the 1830s
to the radio craze of the 1920s. Investors
invariably got burned for letting their
exuberance get ahead of reality (who knew that
500 automobile startups would be too many?). But
when the smoke cleared, the basis of a new
economy was left standing railroad tracks that
would help create a national mass market
telegraph lines that would facilitate the rise of
modern big business electricity grids that would
revolutionize manufacturing and extend the
working day. "To think that the new economy is
over," futurist Alvin Toffler argues, "is like
somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire
industrial revolution is over because some
textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke."
In other words, the Internet is like these
Victorian technologies a general-purpose
infrastructure that can make all economic
activities more efficient, as well as wholly new
ones possible. -- Business 2.0 Quote
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right now The HI-TECH Act

• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
  2009 was signed by President Obama on February
  17, 2009.
• The Act includes the Health Information
  Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
  (HITECH Act).
• The purpose of the HITECH Act is to promote the
  use of health information technology with a goal
  of utilization of an electronic health record for
  each person in the United States by 2014.

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Goal of OMIS and this class
Senior Management
Technical Specialists
YOU
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More specific goal of this class (with apologies
to Ernst Young)
From THOUGHT
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to FINISH!!!!!!!!
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What happens in between is what Systems Analysts
do!!!!!
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step N
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The Course

•         Vocabulary. It is impossible to have a
  conversation, understand, develop or manage
  anything, if basic terminology is not understood.
  There are many acronyms and concepts in the
  field of Systems Analysis and Design and Project
  Management, and discussions of these terms
  permeate the course.
•         Managerial Relevance. It is useless to
  have a vocabulary without an understanding of
  each term's importance and relevance. Systems
  Analysis and Project Management terms and
  concepts discussed are placed into their
  appropriate business context(s), and management
  frameworks are demonstrated that lead to
  strategies which will create competitive
  advantage.
•         Hands on Development Skills. Visual
  Basic is presented and used as a full scale
  development tool of the Microsoft paradigm.

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Vocabulary

• Terms are defined well in the Dennis book. If
  you would like another version, try
  www.webopedia.com.
• You should be prepared each session to discuss /
  ask questions about terms and concepts you do not
  understand.
• Terms and concepts will appear on the five
  quizzes.

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Managerial Relevance

• We will demonstrate where terms fit in a business
  context.
• We will build systems and indicate which type of
  system is which.
• We will discuss the relative competitive
  advantage of different types of systems.

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Hands on Development Skills

• We will build systems, using Visual Basic
  throughout the semester.
• You will complete 5 individual Visual Basic
  assignments.
• With your group, you will manage a systems
  project to build an information system in VB for
  a client that has an actual problem.

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