Keele University MScIT

Index to BIS module materials, version 3

General

The module description is elsewhere and includes the booklist
Student guide (pdf)
Relevant Internet resources
O'Brien: management Information Systems, 4th ed.

form for anonymous feedback on BIS course activities (keele students only)
form for anonymous question on a BIS lecture (Keele students only)

Examinations

Questions and answers

September 1999
March 1999

Practicals

Practical sheet for demonstrations (P1)
Practical sheet for CAD (P2)
Practical sheet for groupware (P3)
Practical sheet for spreadsheets (P4)
Practical sheet for Crystal expert system shell (P5)
 

Assessed course work

Assignment I, March 2000 - decision support, Smith Brothers
A spreadsheet skeleton answer for Smith Brothers
Assignment II March 2000 - case study

Assignment I, July 2000
Assignment II, August 2000

Assignment I, February 2001 - More, More & Thomas

Support for lectures

Questions and answers about strategic IS and planning IS
Questions and answers after the Finance lecture
Questions following lecture on Systems and Information
Example of Sales Order Processing systems, TPS
Some sources on on artificial intelligence
Conversations with intelligent (?) software
Office automation - notes on teleworking
Keele only: In the Nuffield library are copies of all the papers referred to in the module guide, plus (as an update on Hawkridge for Technology Based Training) Houldsworth, E and Hawkridge, D, "Technology-based training in large UK companies: an update", B. J. Ed. Tech. 27 (1) 51-60.

Self assessment tests

  1. systems and types of IS (medium difficulty)
  2. transaction processing and functional IS (medium difficulty)
  3. decision support and AI (medium difficulty)
  4. the Internet and business (medium difficulty)
  5. The management of IS - planning, acquisition, conversion (medium difficulty)
  6. Strategic IS (medium difficulty)
  7. Security issues (medium difficulty)
Stephen Bostock December 2000