WMBA 6080

WebMBA 6080  Management Information Systems

(Check the WebMBA program at https://www.webmbaonline.org/)

Instructor: ChongWoo Park

Course Title: Management Information Systems  

Semester: Spring 2025

Office hours: By appointment

E-Mail: chopark@augusta.edu

Please contact me using my AU email. NOTE: Please use the subject line WMBA 6080 in the email.

Course Description

The Management Information Systems course is designed to provide a framework for understanding how technology can support (or hinder) organizational success, impacting decision making from operational activities to strategic decisions. Course lectures, discussions, application-oriented activities, team-based activities, and individual essays are used to develop the ability to incorporate academic theories into business practice. Business cases, current events, and personal experiences are discussed to help students learn to find points of success or failure based on the theories presented in class. Each student team investigates and records videos to present current research from top journals to find any new research trends that have not made it into textbooks yet. The final project is an interview with the CIO (or equivalent) that allows you to apply these skills in a personal way to develop a framework for IT decisions.

Course Objectives

Students should be able to:

· Evaluate how information systems planning, management, and strategy influence the organization.

· Assess how governmental, industry, and technology trends in information systems from the domestic and global environment affect the organization.

· Discuss the management of software applications and their best practices.

· Determine factors for controlling and securing information resources.

· Identify ethical issues relating to information resource management and information systems.

· Demonstrate an understanding of the proper action of the organization in dealing with identified ethical issues.

Required Text (new textbook from Fall 2024)

Information Technology for Management – Driving Digital Transformation to Increase Local and Global Performance, Growth and Sustainability by Efraim Turman, Carol Pollard, and Gregory Wood. (2021). 12th Edition. Wiley. ISBN 978-1-119-70290-0.