Chapters
Full, free online version of the book Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology v 1.1 (July 2010). Those wishing print or audio versions can order online.
Faculty interested in adopting the text can contact Jenn Yee at Flatworld Knowledge for a complimentary, printed desk copy, or fill out the online form at http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/printed-book/1626 (for version 1.1). Also note that FWK sells the printed version for students at $29.95 (less than the cost of the ink & paper to print the book yourself).
Note: old PDFs are also supplied below for those faculty that prefer to use earlier versions of these chapters. Also note that the (also free) IS Faculty Community contains additional resources to help in presenting this materials, including resources others have uncovered, such as video, images, and related articles. See below for details.
- Setting the Stage: Technology and the Modern Enterprise – Old PDF of Setting the Stage. It will be included in the latest version as soon as FWK is done with editorial & layout.
- Strategy & Technology: Concepts and Frameworks for Understanding What Separates Winnes from Losers – Old PDF of Strategy & Technology
- Netflix: The Making of an E-Commerce GIant and the Uncertain Future of Atoms to Bits – Old PDF of Netflix Case
- Moore’s Law & More: Fast, Cheap Computing, and What It Means for the Manager – Old PDF of Moore’s Law & More
- Understanding Network Effects – Old PDF of Network Effects Chapter
- Peer Production, Social Media, and Web 2.0 – Old PDF of Web 2 and Social Media
- OLD PDF of Get S.M.A.R.T. – The Social Media Awareness and Response Team (part of Summer 2010 update)
- Facebook: Building a Business from the Social Graph – Old PDF of Facebook Case
- Understanding Software: A Primer for Managers – Old PDF of Software – A Primer
- The Data Asset: Databases, Business Intelligence, and Competitive Advantage – Old PDF of The Data Asset
- A Manager’s Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications – Old PDF of Telecom Chapter – It will be included in the latest version as soon as FWK is done with editorial & layout.
- Barbarians at the Gateway (and just about everywhere else): A Brief Managerial Introduction to Information Security Issues – Old PDF of The Security Chapter
Podcasts. The last complete semester of podcasts for my classes is linked below, as is the link to the current semester podcasts. These should provide faculty with a blueprint for how this content might be effectively presented. Enjoy!
- Spring 2010 Podcasts – podcasts for the most current semester – files will be posted as they become available, mid-March through early May.
- Fall 2009 Podcasts – podcasts from the most current semester
- Spring 2009 Podcasts – last complete semester’s podcasts (Note: Fall 2008 Podcasts are likely the best/most comprehensive of current & previous podcasts posted)
Slides
- Current Semester PowerPoint Slides – I’ll keep posting my most updated slides as I present course topics.There are no slides yet for some sections, including ‘Software – A Primer’, ‘Software in Flux’, or ‘The Data Asset’, but if you make some up, feel free to share!
- Fall 2009 Slide Archive – PowerPoint slides from the Fall 2009 semester.
- Spring 2009 Slide Archive – PowerPoint slides from the Spring 2009 semester.
- Google Online Marketing Challenge Project – Information for the Google Online Marketing Challenge project, as I ran it in my Spring 2010 course.
Wiki Course Materials
- Course Readings & Schedule – includes how I schedule my half-semester course using half the material from the book – includes student assignments, readings, etc.
- Course Syllabus – includes grading & expectation info.
- Google Challenge Project Information – information shared with students on the Google Online Marketing Challenge project (spring semesters only)
- Strategic Analysis Project Information – information shared with students on the Strategic Analysis group project (used during semesters when I’m not running the Google project).
- Twitter Assignment – I have my classes tweet to share information & support one another. Here’s the setup exercise I use.
- Course Wiki – these materials are copied over from the ‘live’ student wiki, which remains password protected (I protect the confidentiality of their personal wiki pages). If there is courseware that has a broken link, or that still seems inaccessible, feel free to e-mail me. I’m happy to share what I’ve got!
IS Faculty Online Community
- I’ve set up an experimental Ning community where we can all make blog posts to share links to videos, images, and articles that can help enhance teaching with this material. The community also includes a forum for asking questions and sharing additional resources (there are Google AdWords-style ads on the side of this community that Ning runs in exchange for the free service). Feel free to be a lurker or contributor – it’s a space set up to help make us all better and I promise to incorporate the best suggestions into subsequent versions of our text. The forum is for faculty-only, save for my four highly-trustworthy teaching assistants. They will verify all participants are, in fact, University faculty, before grading access. For information on requesting access (and I really encourage you to do so), please see Request Access to Faculty Community.
Blog
- The Week in Geek has been regularly published since 1997. Every week or so I post a digest of interesting news at the intersection of business and technology. Many of the articles I highlight & summarize offer coverage of cases and course topics. Please feel free to subscribe (there’s an e-mail sign up and RSS link at the top of the blog’s main page)
- http://twitter.com/gallaugher – I use my account, in part, to share interesting articles related to the book content
Promoting the Information Systems Concentration – flyers used to promote the study of technology at Boston College. Feel free to download, modify, and use in your own efforts.
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