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Diploma in Business Management - Management Information Systems Module

Lecturer - Joe Houghton

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Session 1 - April 8th 2005 - IT Fundamentals and Hardware (3.4Mb)
Session 2 - April 18th 2005 - Software & Databases (4.2Mb)
Session 3 - April 20th 2005 - MIS and eBusiness (2.4Mb)

Management Information Systems 1

Lecturer - Joe Houghton

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Course Outline (67k - MS Word)
Lecture 1 - Introduction to MIS (2.2Mb)
Lecture 2 - Competing with IT (3.2Mb)
- Virtual Company reading - Monorail Inc (57K)
Lecture 3 - Hardware (2.8Mb)
Lecture 4 - Software Fundamentals (2.7Mb)
- CRM in Ireland Feb 2005 article (1.4Mb)
Lecture 5 - Databases (3.8Mb)
Lecture 6 - Databases - second half of last week's slides
Lecture 7 - Systems Development & Implementation (1.1Mb)
Lecture 8 - second half of last week's slides
Lecture 9 - Systems Implementation (347k)
Lecture 10 - Course Review - 1 of 2 (2.9 Mb)
Lecture 11 - Course Review - 2 of 2 (3 Mb)

Management Information Systems 2

Lecturer - Joe Houghton

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Lecture 1 - Foundations of IS in Business
Lecture 2 - Competing with Information Technology (411K)
Lecture 3 - eBusiness Systems Fundamentals
Lecture 4 - eCommerce Fundamentals
Lecture 5 - Enterprise eBusiness Systems
Lecture 6 - eBusiness and You
Lecture 7 - Decision Support Systems slides
- Executive Dashboards document
Lecture 8 - AI and Knowledge Management (340k)
Lecture 9 - Systems Development & Implementation (1,302K)
Lecture 10 - IT Ethics and Security (650K)
Lecture 11 - Global IT Management (246K)
Lecture 12 - Course Review (2,086k)
MIS 2 Exam Paper - Dec 2004 (72k)

Management Information Systems 3 - IT Systems Analysis & Development

Lecturer - Joe Houghton

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Course Outline (77K - MS Word)
Lecture 1 - The Systems Development Context (1.8Mb)
Lecture 2 - Introduction to Project Management (265K)
Lecture 3 - PM Organisation and Feasibility Framework (142K)
Lecture 4 - Project Control, Budgets and Closure (2.5Mb)
- Reading (PDF file) - Managing Project Scope (83k)
Lecture 5 - Systems Analysis (1.9Mb)
Lecture 6 - Systems Analysis - 2nd half of last week's slides.
Lecture 7 - Systems Design (1.7Mb)
Lecture 9 - Systems Implementation (423k)
Lecture 10 - Managing Change (417k)
Lecture 11 - Course Review - 1 of 2 (1.1Mb)
Lecture 12 - Course Review - 2 of 2 - SDLC & Change Management (451k)

Computer Applications - Year 1

Lecturer - Joe Houghton

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Course Outline & Assessment - Word doc (72k)
Lecture 1 - IT Basics (308k)
Lectures 2 & 3 - Using a PC and Managing Files (44k)
Lecture 4 - Wordprocessing - Your First Letter (171k)
Lecture 5 - Long documents, Tables, Tabs & Graphics (216k)
Lecture 6 - Using Graphics in Word (178k)
Lecture 7 - Excel - Introduction (184k)
Lecture 8 - More Excel (42K)
Lecture 9 - Internet Basics (864k)
Lecture 10 - Internet Searching (37K)
Lecture 11 - Powerpoint (455k)