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Full, free online version of the book Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology v 1.3 (Jan. 2012).  Those wishing print, .pdf, Kindle, iPad, 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 copy request form at http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/2206 (for version 1.3).  Also note that FWK sells the printed version for students at $34.95 (in some cases that’s 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
• Strategy & Technology: Concepts and Frameworks for Understanding What Separates Winners from Losers.

• Zara: Fast Fashion from Savvy Systems

• Netflix in Two Acts: The Making of an E-commerce Giant and the Uncertain Future of Atoms to Bits
• Moore’s Law & More: Fast, Cheap Computing, and What It Means for the Manager
• Understanding Network Effects
• Social Media, Peer Production, and Web 2.0

• Facebook: Building a Business from the Social Graph
• Understanding Software: A Primer for Managers

• Software in Flux: Partly Cloudy and Sometimes Free

• The Data Asset: Databases, Business Intelligence, and Competitive Advantage
• A Manager’s Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications
• Information Security; Barbarians at the Gateway (and just about everywhere else): A Brief Managerial Introduction to Information Security Issues
  

• Google in Three Parts: Search, Online Advertising, and Beyond

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!

• Fall 2011 Computers in Management Podcasts – will be updated during the semester as I post each lecture.
• 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

• Fall 2011 PowerPoint Slides (I teach this course each Fall) – My own slides (as opposed to those offered by my publisher).  Note that I don’t have slides for some chapters, including ‘Software – A Primer’, ‘Software in Flux’, or ‘The Data Asset’, but my publisher does offer some.  And if you make some up, do feel free to share! Also feel free to see the slides below for examples used in prior semesters (each time I update a new deck I’ll post it here).
• Spring 2010 Slide Archive – PowerPoint slides from teh Spring 2010 semester (last I taught prior to my Fall 2010 sabbatical).
• 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.  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 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.  No more than once a week (and usually only about once a month) 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)

Other Social media

• http://twitter.com/gallaugher – I use my account, in part, to share interesting articles related to the book content.
• My Google+ account offers pretty much the same thing.  Like many of you, I’m more active on Twitter than Google+, but Google+ offers the advantage of easier-to-follow threads with longer posting length.
• You can also “Like” Gallaugher.com on Facebook at the top of this page (thanks). I could use a better Facebook presence, but hopefully the Blog, Twitter, Ning and Google+ offerings help keep you connected in useful ways.
• Mobile & Social: Higher Ed. Rocket Fuel (scroll to find) – a talk I gave at Apple’s AcademiX conference in Spring 2011.  Includes thoughts & practices on using social media across teaching, research, alumni engagement, extracurricular activities, placement, advancement, and more.

Promoting Information Systems Study – material used to promote the study of technology at Boston College.  Feel free to download, modify, and use in your own efforts.

Find this useful? Have feedback/comments? Motivate the author!  Please send a note to john.gallaugher@bc.edu!

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