Web Services and Information Technology Management

Mar  - Jul  2004 

Professor:   K.Srinivasan

 

 

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala

Technopark, Trivandrum Kerala, India

Phone:0471-2527567(Ext.109) K.Srinivasan

            0471-2558047(Home)

E-mail: K.Srinivasan  [email protected] 

 

This course outline will be posted and updated on my website:  http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/~courses/itm304/2004-spring/index.htm

 

 

 

The Break up of the course and Schedule

 

The Mailing List

 

To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Itm304-spring-2004 Archives.

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Office: 

K.Srinivasan: All days available at the Park Centre building in his cabin. 

Information Technology Management examines IT from a variety of viewpoints:  organisational, social, economical, product design and planning perspectives.  You can’t “do IT” from one kind of academic perspective it must be a multidisciplinary.  

 

Web Services  and Security

Topics to be covered under IT Management are as follows:

 

 

Goals and Objectives

 

Information Technology Management is a scientific field that deals with the basic fundamentals of Information such as the Information Theory, Information Economics and Information Sciences and Management. It touches on all basic and applied fields in information science and is closely tied to modern information technologies, notably in the areas of computing and communication.

Information Management is a discipline gives orientation for understanding the rapid development in Information and Communication Technology. The recent developments in Information Technology are unmanageable by traditional methods and to growing conviction that the process of informed decision making is as important to modern times.

Vision

Orienting the students with the understanding the Information Sciences and Technology.

Mission

Making the students to get an exposure in the management dimension of Information Technology.

Objectives

1. To achieve a basic and applied work in Information Management.

2. Establishing a school on Information System and Management 

3. To improve the understanding of Information Systems and the ways in which new knowledge will be derived from information on various applications.

The four areas you will receive grades in are as follows:

 

(1)     CLASS PARTICIPATION

Since the course is designed as a seminar, it is expected that students come prepared to discuss the assigned readings of the week and if possible introduce relevant current events into class discussion. The first part of class will generally be in a lecture format, followed by a class discussion during the second half of class.  We want you to come to all classes.  All classes are interesting, important and thought provoking.  

 

(2)     MIDTERM

You will have a Mid Term Evaluation based on your performance in a test and practical. You will also expected

to do a project on one of the topics. 

 

(3)   FINAL

You will have a Mid Term Evaluation based on your performance in a test and practical. You will also expected

to do a project on one of the topics. The final exam will be due July 2004.

 

(4)   PROJECT—This requirement must relate to the issues discussed in this class.  The project can be a paper, a slide show,  design of one applications or any creative endeavor one could think of utilizing. The project may either be an individual or two-student effort.  Students must turn in a one-page proposal to the instructors by and have my approval in writing by last week of April   2004.  Since you worked so hard on this project, a class presentation will also be expected on the last day of class on July 2004.    

 

 

 

The following books and reports are required reading:

 

 

 

Course Outline:

 

Session One 

Introduction to the course; and outline of who we are. Feedback is asked from students in terms of course content, requirements, times and dates, and so on. 

Session Two 

Topic: Computerised Management Information System

Reading:  BRESNAHAN, TIMOTHY F.,  ERIK, BRYNJOLFSSON AND   HITT, LORIN M. "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, WORKPLACE ORGANIZATION, AND THE DEMAND FOR SKILLED LABOR: FIRM-LEVEL EVIDENCE",  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2002

 

 Sessions Three  

Topic: Human Computer Interface

Reading:  

1. E. John,Bonni and Newell, Allen "Cumulating the Science of HCI: From S-R Compatibility to Transcription Typing" CH1'89 PROCEEDINGS, MAY 1989, ACM

 2.  HOLLAN, JAMES, HUTCHINS,EDWIN  and KIRSH, DAVID, " Distributed Cognition: Toward a New Foundation for Human-Computer Interaction Research", ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2000, Pages 174–196.

 

Session Four  

Topic: HCI Case Studies

Reading: Customer Portal Research and Design

 Session Five  Community Centered Computing

Topic: 

Reading: "Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research"

Session Six  Distributed Cognition

Topic: 

Reading: "Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research"

 

Session Seven Distributed Cognition

Topic: 

Reading: "Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research"

 

Session Eight and  Nine  

Topic: Cybernetics

Reading: Cybernetic Consulting (PANGARO Incorporated)

Cambridge Cybernetic Society (US)

Video Footage on Cybernetics

Session Ten 

Topic: Information Economy

Reading: Information Rules by Carl Shapiro and Hal R.Varian, 1999.

Session Eleven 

Topic: Pricing Information

Reading:

 

Session  Twelve, Thirteen 

Topic: Pricing Information

Reading:

 

Session Fourteen

Topic: Versioning, Indifference Curves

Reading: Versioning Carl Shapiro Hal R. Varian

Indifference Curves

Indifference Curve Analysis

 

Session Fifteen, Sixteen 

Topic: Indifference Curve Analysis

Reading Indifference Curve Analysis

 CAPM

NON-LINEAR PRICING

Monopoly Pricing