CPIS 486
E-Business Strategies
Fall Semester 2011
COURSE PERSONNEL:
Instructor: / Dr. Arwa A. JamjoomOffice: / 1-68
Phone: / 63356
Email: /
Office Hours: / Sun & Tue (12:30 pm – 2pm)or by appointment
Lab Instructor: / I.Thoria Al-Ghamdi
Office: / 0-78
Phone: / 63173
Email: /
Office Hours: / Wednesday 11-12:30, Tuesday 9:30-11& 12:30-2:30
PREREQUISITE:
BUS-232 CPIS-483
COURSE MATERIALS:
Course Homepage:
Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CPIS468
Group email address:
Required textbook:
· E-Business Strategies for Virtual Organizations, by Janice Burn, Martin Barnett and Peter Marshalle, 2001, Elsevier First Edition
Reference/optional books:
· A practical guide to planning for e-business success: how to enable your enterprise, by Aita Cassidy 2001, CRC, ISBN 1574443046
Other resources:
· On-line resources. Will be posted on the course group
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This course helps students to understand how to develop and apply e-business strategies for Information Systems and what infrastructure is required for the modern web-based business models. It introduces the concepts and strategic issues related to the information warfare, management of organizational knowledge, information economics of virtual organizations. It also covers the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in supporting virtual organizations. In addition to presenting a comprehensive collection of e-business models.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
· To understand the various e-business models.
· To understand the key elements required for the success of e-business.
· To understand the various items of strategic plans.
· To know the requirements of designing strategic virtual organizations.
· To be able to design organization strategies to adopt partial or full e-business.
· To be able to design plans to convert to e-business.
COURSE OUTLINES
· E-business and Virtual organizations.
· Characteristics of Virtual Organizations.
· E-business models.
· IS Planning and Strategies for emerging business models.
· Moving from e-business to i-business strategies in virtual market.
· Globalization and e-business strategies for SMEs.
· Developing knowledge-based strategies for Virtual Organizations.
· Evaluating strategies for e-business change.
· E-business strategies in the virtual organization.
· Creating virtual cultures for global online communities.
ON-CAMPUS STUDENTS:
Activity / Day / Time / LocationLectures / Sunday – Tuesday / 11 am – 12:30 pm / 2131 (7)
Lab / Tuesday / 8 am – 9:30 am / L04B
COURSE POLICIES:
Readings. when a chapter from the book assigned, you are responsible for reading it and completing any assigned exercises.
GRADING/EVALUATION:
The overall grade is a calculation of the percentage of points from participation, homework, short reports, presentations, short research projects, and exams. The group project will have both a project grade and individual grade based upon the quality and participation of each student in the project. You will be graded on your individual work. Even though these projects will be combined into a single piece of work it is important that you not rely on others to bring your grade up in an overall project. You each will be assigned a specific task to perform and will graded on the quality of that task.
Homework. You will periodically receive homework assignments that are to be turned in and will be graded. Assignments and their due dates will be announced in the class.
Late Homework. Check below
Quizzes. You will be given a few short quizzes at the beginning of class throughout the semester. The quizzes will typically be announced and it will be on topics in previous couple of lectures and assigned reading materials.
Project.
· Problem solving techniques and skills needed in Software Engineering can only be acquired through practice. Therefore, the significant term project constitutes a very important integral part of the course.
· The details of the project will be handed out in class. Students will be expected to work in teams of three or four to complete the project. However, 15% of the project mark will be assigned depending on the individual contribution of each student.
· There will be numerous project deliverables deadlines. No extensions will normally be granted for any deadline. If an extension were to be granted for one deliverable then it will be harder for you to achieve the next one. Before long things will snowball and you’ll find it hard to achieve the course objectives.
· Everyone on each team must participate in the work required for each presentation in order to get credit for that presentation. “Participation” includes help in the preparation of the technical information, developing the presentation slides, or review/critique the work before it is published/presented.
· Each person on a team must present at least part of one of the presentations—it will be up to the team to determine who presents which parts.
· For each review, each person on a team shall also provide an assessment of all of the team members’ participation in the preparation for the review. Each person should include an assessment of their own participation as well as the other members on the team. This assessment should list all of the team members and indicate the % each contributed to the development/review of the presentation materials. The team member contributions might include the technical work, preparing the slides for presentation, or reviewing/critiquing the work before publication/presentation. For example, if there are 5 members on the team and all contributed equally, then the assessment report would indicate 20% participation for each member.
· Time spent on class project shall be tracked using the project timesheet, The Microsoft Project software (for developing and maintaining project schedules).
· Cheating and plagiarism WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. If a student is found cheating or plagiarizing material written by someone else (including information posted on websites), that student will fail this course.
· Project tasks can be very time consuming. Start early and budget sufficient time for completion.
· If you are having problems with the assignments or tests, contact the instructor as soon as possible. It will NOT be possible to earn extra credit to improve a poor grade at the end of the semester.
The following early/late submission policy will be applied:
· Deliverable submitted more than 24 hours earlier – the mark earned is increased by 10%.
· Deliverable submitted up to 24 hours later – the mark earned is decreased by 20%.
· Deliverable submitted up to 48 hours later – the mark earned is decreased by 50%.
· Submissions more than 48 hours late will receive the score of zero (0). However, all assignments must be turned in to obtain full credit for the course.
Exams:
The midterms and final examinations will be written in class. Dates of the exams will be announced.
The examinations will focus on understanding and applying the concepts taught in class and practiced in lab/tutorial exercises and the course project. They will mainly include solving small practical problems, but some multiple-choice and short-answer questions may also be qiven.
Exam Makeup Policy:
An exam missed without an acceptable excuse will be recorded as a grade of zero (0).
Missed exams with acceptable excuse will be made up or assigned the average grade of all other exams, at the option of the course instructor.
Missed, and acceptably excused, final exams will result in the course grade of 'I' and must be made up in the first two weeks of the following semester.
Grading:
Final (30%)
Midterm exam 1 (15%)
Midterm exam 2 (15%)
Project (20%)
Quizzes, homework, discussion (20%)
SYLLABUS CHANGE POLICY:
This syllabus is a guide for the course and is subject to change with advanced notice. Such notice will be in the form of an announcement to the Blackboard course web site.