New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Computer and Information Science Department (CIS)
CIS677:
Information System Principles, Fall 2000
Professors: Michael
Bieber, Catherine
Campbell and Doug Riecken
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Synthesis means analyzing a particular concept by comparing and contrasting it with other, perhaps unrelated ideas. Synthesis will often help you understand concepts more deeply, see things that are missing, think about concepts in a new light, or see that an article indeed covers a topic thoroughly. As part of synthesis, it is interesting to contrast the ideas each text chapter and article we read with:
Here is a selection of the models and frameworks we encounter in CIS677. Of course, there are many other important concepts you should understand, which are not listed here. The list here is simply to aid in synthesis, and is *not* a comprehensive list of all important class materials.
- The IS Pyramid (Zwass page 8, 64, 424), which describes the various levels of IS support in organizations.
- Model of a System, with feedback loops - Zwass figures 2.3 - 2.5
- Business Context of Information Systems - Alter Figure I.1, page 2
- Work-Centered Analysis Framework - Alter Figure I.2, page 4
- Framework for Decision Making -Discussed in Lecture 2, with a handout (From Gorry & Scott Morton, "Framework for Management Information Systems," Sloan Management Review, Fall 1991.)
- Information Requirements by Management Level - Discussed in Lecture 2, with a handout (From Gorry & Scott Morton, "Framework for Management Information Systems," Sloan Management Review, Fall 1991.)
- Organizational MIS - Discussed in Lecture 2, with a handout (From Davis & Olson, Management Information Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1985.)
- Intelligence-Design-Choice-Implementation Model of Decision Making - Herb Simon (see Zwass Figure 10.5, Sprague '80 Figure 1.5)
- Decision Process Life Cycle: lecture notes
- Rational/Normative Decision Maker vs. Administrative Model of a Decision Maker: lecture notes (From H. Simon, The New Science of Management Decision, Harper & Row,NY, 1960.)
- DSS Subsystems/Components - Sprague '90 Figure 1.6, Zwass Figure 10.6
- 3 Levels of DSS Technology - Sprague '80 Figure 1.3
- Silver: Decisional Guidance vs. System Restrictiveness (e.g., Silver Figure 5)
- Legal Issues vs. Ethical Issues vs. Discretionary Domain - Zwass Figure 17.1
- PAPA: Privacy, Accuracy, Property & Access - Zwass Figure 17.3 (From Richard Mason, Four Ethical Issues of the Information Age, MISQ 10(1), March 1986, 5-12.)
- Normative Theories of Business Ethics: Stockholder, Stakeholder & Social Contract Theory - see Smith & Hasnas article (From J. Hasnas, "The Normative Theories of Business Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed," Business Ethics Quarterly 8(1), 1998, 19-42)
- Competitive Strategies related to Competive Advantage and Scope - Zwass Figure 3.11 (From Michael Porter, Competitve Advantage of Nations, The Free Press, NY, 1990)
- Combatting Competitive Forces in the Marketplace- Zwass Figure 3.12 (Adapted from Michael Porter, Competitve Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, The Free Press, NY, 1980)
- Strategic Cube - Zwass Figure 3.13
- Value Chain - handout (see also Zwass 3.14, adapted from Michael Porter and Victor Millar, How Information Gives You Competitive Admantage, Harvard Business Review, July-August 1985, 151.)
- Extended Value Chain - handout (From Steven Alter, Information Systems: A Management Perspective (First Edition), Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1992, Figure 14.1, Page 551)
- General Model of a Communication System - Davis & Olson Figure 7-3
- Uncertainty vs. Equivocality (Daft, R. L., and Lengel, R. H., "Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design," Management Science 32(5), 1986, 554-571.)
- Media Richness (Daft, R. L., and Lengel, R. H., "Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design," Management Science 32(5), 1986, 554-571.)
- 5 Information Politics Models (Davenport, Thomas, Eccles, Robert and Prusak, Laurence, Information Politics, Sloan Management Review 34(1), 1992, 53-65.)
- General Model of a human as an information processor - Davis & Olson Figure 8-1
- The human information processing system - Davis & Olson Ch. 8
- Newell-Simon Task Environment & Problem Space - Davis & Olson Ch. 8
- Churchman's Model of an Inquiry System - described in the lecture
- Basic model of a System - e.g., from text reading
- Web of System Properties - Whitworth, Lecture 9 (From: Whitworth, B., 1998, The web of system properties: A general view of systems. December, ACM SIG CSE)
- Hierarchies vs. Markets - Malone, Yates & Benjamin 1987
- Zwass' Framework of Electronic Commerce - Zwass, table 7.5
- Framework for the architecture of a distributed system - Zwass Figure 7.17
- Generic Framework for Electronic Commerce - Lecture Handout (From: Kalakota, Ravi and Whinston, Andrew, Electronic Commerce: A Manager's Guide, Chapter 1, Addison-Wesley, 1996, page 12, Figure 1.4.)
- Electronic Commerce Areas (Virtual products, players and processes) - Lecture Handout (From: Choi, Soon-Yong, Dale Stahl and Andrew B. Whinston, The Economics of Electronic Commerce, Macmillan, 1997, page 18, Figure 1.3)
- Bloch et al.'s Electronic Commerce Model - Figure 1 in Bloch et al. 1996
- Functional vs. Product vs. Project vs. Matrix Organizational Structure - Class Handouts/Lecture/Zwass Ch. 10 1992
- Mechanistic vs. Organic Organization - Zwass Ch. 10 1992, Figure 12.5
- Stages in Technology Assimilation - Zwass Ch. 10 1992, Figures 12.7, 12.8
- Virtual Organization Conceptual Framework - Class Handout/Lecture
- Hitt & Brynjolfsson's Ladder of Observability of Incentives for the effective use and dissemination of information (From: Hitt, Lorin and Brynjolfsson, Erik, Information Technology and Internal Firm Organization: An Exploratory Analysis, Journal of Management Information Systems 14(2), Fall 1997, 81-101.)
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