15.566:
Information Systems:
From Technology Infrastructure to the Networked Corporation

SPRING 1998

Lecture Notes and Handouts Page 

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Class #1: Introduction and Overview
Class #2: Smaller World: Digital Convergence, Global Networking and the Internet
Class #3: Faster World: Computer Technology
Class #4: IT in Manufacturing and Process Management: Using SAP at Bay Networks
Class #5: Database Technology: Relational and Multidimensional Databases, Data Warehouses and Data Mining
Class #6: Information Technology in Marketing
Class #7: Information Technology in Logistics and Operations
Class #8: Information Technology in the Financial Markets
Class #9: Transforming the Markets: Electronic Marketplaces
Class #10: Transforming the Value-Added Chain
Class #11: Transforming the Organization: Business Process Reengineering and Organizational Change
Class #12: Evolving IT Architectures: From Mainframes to Client-Server to Network Computers
Class #13: The Internet and Electronic Commerce #1
Class #14: The Internet and Electronic Commerce #2
Class #15: Technologies for Electronic Commerce: Encryption and Privacy
Class #16: Business Models for the Internet
Class #17: New Organizational Forms and the Networked Organization
Class #18: Final Exam