Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!stock.cob.ohio-state.edu!muhanna From: muhanna@stock.cob.ohio-state.edu (Waleed A. Muhanna) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems Subject: Re: MBA seminar in Office Information Systems Message-ID: <75557@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 11 Jan 90 19:47:43 GMT References: <90003.133030UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: muhanna@stock.cob.ohio-state.edu (Waleed A. Muhanna) Organization: The Ohio State University, College of Business Lines: 145 In article <90003.133030UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: >I trying to collect a broad array of ideas that cover the topic of >Office Information Systems of the near future. I am interested in current >systems that corporations use, or that can be purchased from vendors, but >I am more interested in ideas which lean toward >the future. I am building a sysllabus for an MBA seminar for non-specialists. Lee, Here is something which, although not quite what you're looking for, might help you. I would be interested in getting a copy of your syllabus when it takes a final shape. Last year I taught a course on OIS which is taken by senior MIS students here at Ohio State. The course can also be taken be MBAs as an elective, although no MBAs did when I tought it. This course was designed to complement other parts of our curriculum, so your mileage may vary. Our MIS program is more technical than average. So, in this course as well as others we tried to balance technical issues with managerial concerns. The rationale is that talking about managerial issues would sometimes be vacuous without adequate technical background knowledge. Despite the increasing number of available books, none of the ones I examined were satisfactory. Most were targeted towards practitioners and written at a level that would insult the intelligence of our senior IS students. Lacking a text book, I prepared a packet of readings consisting of a number of handouts and eighteen papers on a variety of OIS issues. The handouts included among others some background material on Data Management and Decision Support Systems. A listing of the outside papers is shown below in the order in which they were examined. I do plan to revise the list by adding some papers and dropping others while keeping the topics coverage at about the same level. If your audience is going to consist entirely of MBA students, you almost have to do away with the technical papers in the list. OIS: A Framework for Study (1) Galbraith, Jay R., "Organization Design: An Information Processing View," Interfaces 4:3, May 1974. (2) Gorry, G. Anthony, and Michael S. Scott Morton, "A Framework for Management Information Systems," Sloan Management Review, Fall 1971, pp. 55-70. (3) Ellis, Clarence A., and Gary J. Nutt, "Office Informa- tion Systems and Computer Science," Computing Surveys 12:1, March 1980, pp. 27-60. Networking and Cryptosystems (4) Lefkon, Dick, "A LAN Primer," Byte, July 1987, pp. 147-154. (5) Tanenbaum, Andrew S., "Network Protocols," Computing Surveys 13:4, December 1981, pp. 453-489. (6) Rivest, R. L., A. Shamir, and L. Adleman, "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosys- tems," Communications of the ACM 21:2, February 1978, pp. 120-126. OIS Modeling (7) Bailey, A. D., J. H. Gerlach, and A. B. Whinston, "OIS Modeling for Efficiency and Productivity," in Office Systems: Technology and Organization, Reston Publishing Company, Reston, Virginia, 1985. Languages for Office Automation (8) Hammer, M., W. G. Howe, V. J. Kruskal, and I. Wladaw- sky, "A Very High Level Programming Language for Data Processing Applications," Communications of the ACM 20:11, November 1977, pp. 832-840. (9) Shu, N.C., V.Y. Lum, F.C. Tung, C.L. Chang, "Specifica- tion of Forms Processing and Business Procedures for Office Automation," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering SE-8:5, September 1982, pp. 499-512. (10) Whang, K.Y., et. al., "Office-by-Example: An Integrated Office System and Database Manager," ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems 5:4, October 1987, pp. 393-427. Message and Document Processing (11) Tsichritzis, D., "Integrating Data Base and Message Systems," pp. 356-362. (12) Conklin, Jeff, "Hypertext: An Introduction and Survey," IEEE Computer 20:9, September 1987, pp. 17-41. Group Decision Support Systems (13) Kraemer, K. L., and J. L. King, "Computer-Based Systems for Cooperative Work and Group Decision Making," Com- puting Surveys 20:2, June 1988, pp. 115-146. Management of OIS (14) The Rocky Road to Office Automation, in Information Systems Management in Practice, eds. Spargue and McNur- lin. (15) Meyer, N. Dean., The Office Automation Cookbook: Mange- ment Strategies for Getting Office Automation Moving, Sloan Management Review, Winter 1983, pp. 51-60. (16) Keen, Peter G.W., and L. A. Woodman, "What to do with all those micros?" Harvard Business Review, September- October 1984, pp. 142-150. Implications of OIS (17) Irving, R. H., C. A. Higgins, and F. R. Safayeni, "Com- puter Performance Monitoring Systems: Use and Abuse," Communications of the ACM 29:8, August 1986, pp. 794- 801. (18) Hirschheim, R. A., The Effect of A Priori Views on the Social Implications of Computing: The Case of Office Automation, Computing Surveys 18:2, June 1986, pp. 166-195. Drop me a note, if you need more information. > >lee sailer Waleed A. Muhanna --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Waleed Muhanna Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems muhanna@stock.cob.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University phone: (614) 292-3808 1775 College Road fax: (614) 292-1651 Columbus, OH 43210