Management Information Systems: Case Study

Instructor: Y.T. Wang (王耀德 )

Office: 二研 105

Phone: (04)26328001#18114

Email: ytwang@pu.edu.tw

Office hour: Thu 12:00-16:00

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Technology and its management are becoming increasingly important and pervasive in businesses, the community, and even the individual life. Managers of the future will need to be globally oriented in every respect, and hence need to understand technology and all other aspects of management and leadership in an international context.

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This course focuses on using the technical understanding that students may have obtained in an Introduction to Management Information Systems class. By using real business cases and descriptions of actual situations, this course will help students apply their skills to business decision making.

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Case 2. EKATO Ruhrwerke.

Case 3. Peters and Brownes Group (Western Australia): Review of Best Practice in the Adoption and Management of Technology.

Case 4. Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate GmbH: Working for the Environment from Design to disposal.

Case 5. Guy Birkin ‑the Development and Implementation of Textronic Lace.

Case 6. Telstra’s National Telemarketing Centre.

Case 7. Samyeong Cable Company.

Case 8. A Case Study of the Implementation and Management of Surface Mount Technology at Hewlett Packard’s Medical Products Group: Andover Surface Mount Centre.

Case 9. New Product Development at HPM.

Case 10. The Boeing Commercial Airplane Group: Design Process Evaluation.

Case 11. CIG Gas Cylinders: A Case Study of a Manufacturing Company’s Experience with Self-Managed Work Teams (SMWT).

Case 12. Iva Manufacturing: A Case of Implementing and Exploiting Advanced Technology for Strategic Advantage.

Case 13. A Case Study of Manufacturing Organization Reconfiguration for Organisational Development at Alan Group, U.K.

Case 14. A Case Study of the Implementation and Management of Supply Chain Management at Becton Dickinson.

Case 15. The Duck Manufacturing Centre (A): Embarking on Reengineering.

Case 16. The Duck Manufacturing Centre (B & C): TMQ and the New Layout for Hard Mental Processes (B) and the Implementation of a New Pull System (C).

Case 17. TOKAI-RIKA: Adoption of Just-in-Time Systems.

Case 18. Restructuring at Mayekawa.

Case 19. Samwon Precision Machines Company.

Case 20. International Decorative Glass.

Case 21. Advanced Book Exchange, Inc.: The Barnesandnoble.com Partnership.

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Textbook:

N. Harrison and D. Samson, Technology Management: Text and International Cases, McGraw-Hill (2002).

D. L. Anderson, Management Information Systems: Using Cases within an Industry Context to Solve Business Problems with Information Technology, Prentice Hall (2000).

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GRADE:

Regular Presentation 40%

Case Study 40%

Participation 20%