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15.568A | Spring 2005 | Undergraduate

# Practical Information Technology Management

SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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Introduction and Overview

1 | Lecture and Discussion: Course Importance, Topics, Logistics |

2 | Case Discussion: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. |

Module I: Project Management: The Realities of Hitting a Moving Target

3 | Case Discussion: Administrative Data Project (A) |

4 | Case Discussion: Administrative Data Project (B and C) | Introduction of course project exercise

5 | Case Discussion: AIRNow Presentation, Visitor: Jane Linder |

6 | Case: PharmaCo Presentation, Visitor: Ben Porter |

Module II: Implementation and Change: “Technology is the Least of Our Problems”

7 | Case Discussion: First National City Bank Operating Group | Short paper due (one of three, chosen from five options)

8 | Continuation of First National City Bank Operating Group Discussion |

9 | Case Discussion: Dow Corning | Project plan due

10 | Implementation Readings Review, and Visitor on ERP Implementation Experience: Mike Shanno, EMC Corporation |

Module III: Management of the IT Function: The Genie Behind the Curtain

11 | RFID, Visitor: Prof. Brian Subirana |

12 | Case Discussion: Care Group | Short paper due (one of three, chosen from five options)

13 | Case Discussion: Lifeline, Visitor: CIO Rich Reich |

14 | Class Discussion of Student Projects |

15 | Visitor: Arup Gupta, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services |

Module IV: IT Support for Business Operations: Doing Things Faster and Better

16 | Special Assignment on Getting Business Value from IT Frameworks |

17 | The MIT Process Handbook, Visitor: Prof. Tom Malone | Short paper due (one of three, chosen from five options)

18 | Web Services and Business Process Management, Visitor: Evan Mamas |

Module V: Strategic Systems and Digital Transformation: IT for New Things

19 | TYCO Readings, Visitor: CIO Dana Deasy | Project status report due

20 | ACE Case, US Customs Transformation | Short paper due (one of three, chosen from five options)

21 | Business Strategy |

22 | Visitor: Omar Baig, IFC / World Bank | Project status report due

Module VI: Team Reports, Course Summary

23 | Team Project Presentations |

24 | Team Project Presentations (cont.) | Short paper due (one of three, chosen from five options)

25 | Discussion / Debate: “Does IT Matter?” |

26 | Closing Lecture and Discussion | Team project papers due

## Course Info

##### Instructors

- Prof. Benjamin Grosof
- Prof. Cyrus Gibson

##### Departments

- Sloan School of Management

##### As Taught In

Spring 2005

##### Level

Undergraduate

##### Topics

- Business
  - Information Technology
  - Management
  - Operations Management

##### Learning Resource Types

notes Lecture Notes
group_work Projects with Examples

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