Introduction to Management Information Systems and Electronic Commerce

Catalog description

This course introduces the student to the concepts underlying the design, implementation, control and evaluation of a contemporary computer-based information system. Students will understand the role that management information systems play in the development of the Internet worked/e-commerce enterprise. The course strives to show how, through information systems, the manager is able to better understand today’s new business model. The course will emphasize the interrelationship between the three major business resources: information, information technology and people. This course is intended to provide the student with a major overview of the information function within the e-commerce enterprise. At all times, the emphasis will be on the application of technology to the business environment, with the intent of understanding how information technology has transformed how we live and work.