Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Course: Chief Information Officer ( I.T and General Management)

 

1)       e-Governance and Information systems : Strategy and Planning

·          Principles of e-governance

·          Different categories of Information Systems

·          Choice of application for e-governance

·          Cost – benefit analysis of an information system

·          Environmental constraints and strategic choices

·          Performance analysis of Information systems

·          Comprehensive analysis of a variety of e-governance application

1)       Information  Technology : Overview and Emerging Trends

·          Desktop Hardware and Software Technologies

·          Data communication and computer net works

·          LAN and WAN Technologies

·          Internet and Intranet

·          Network Security and fire walls

·          Tools for Web-enabled applications

·          Client –server technology

·          Groupware

·          Technology view  of Electronic Commerce

·          Distributed Computing Technologies

·          Net work Operating Systems

·          Future road map of technology

2)       Systems Analysis and Design

·          Principles of Re-engineering

·          System Design life cycle

·          Requirement specification using structured and object oriented methods

·          Risk analysis

·          Estimation of size and effort of a software project

·          Logical Systems design

·          Case Tools

3)       System Development

·          Quality assurance

·          Configuration management

·          Testing

·          Documentation

·          System Maintenance and house keeping

 

 

4)       Database Management and online transaction processing

·          Introduction to Database Management Systems

·          Introduction to Entity Relationship diagrams

·          Data Modeling for Database applications (Exercise with normalization)

·          Introduction to SQL

·          Physical Database Design

·          Query by Example (QBE)

·          Creating Forms and Reports

·          Issues in large Datbase Management

·          Distributed Databases Client server databases

·          Data warehousing and data mining

·          Examples and comparision of Database Management Systems

 

5)       Decision support systems

·         The Idea of a Decision support system

·         End user computing tools for DSS

·         Design of interfaces in a DSS

·         Heuristics in DSS

·         Case studies of DSS

 

6)       Information Technology Project Management

·         Development of overall project plan

·         Project Time management

·         Project Resources planning

·         Project cost Management

·         Project Human resources Management

·         Project procurement management

·         Project execution and control

 

 

7)       Change Management

·         People related issues in introducing Technology

·         Communication and negotiation skills needed by a change agent

·         Importance of team work

 

Project Deliverables

 

Phase – 1

·          Objectives , activities and information systems needed for the area chosen

·          As-Is model : Description

·          To-Be model : Description of the above process after re-engineering

·          Table of costs and benefits , for the information systems that are needed to support the key activities

·          A prioritized list of information systems for the area

 

Phase – 2

·          Structured analysis and design

·          Object oriented analysis and design

Ø       Context Diagram , Event partitioned logical model, leveled D F Ds, E R Ds

Ø       Normalized relations ,structure chart ,pseudo code , screen and report layouts, use case diagrams, object diagrams, event charts

·          Estimates of size , effort ands time

·          Testing SCHEME

·          Project activity list and Schedule chart

·          System requirement specification

·          Network configuration and software architecture

 

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