BCIS
5610
Executive
and Decision Support Systems
Spring, 2008
Office: COBA 338E; Phone: 940-565-3110 or 3113; FAX: 940-565-4935
Email: becker@unt.edu [Preferred communication medium]
URL (for Textbook): http://www.prenhall.com/turban/
Office Hours: Wed.
Grading Summary [Links to website below]
Textbook (another may be assigned at a later
date)
Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems
Efraim Turban, Jay
E. Aronson & Peng-Ting Liang, & Ramesh Sharda 8th Edition,
2007, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Course
Description (from Graduate Catalogue)
An analysis of how computer
systems can assist executive decision-making and improve productivity. Emphasis is placed on the design,
construction, utilization and managerial impacts of executive support system. Prerequisite: BCIS 5120.
Your grade for this course will be
a function of group projects, in-class presentations, an in-class midterm
examination and a final group project.
Each student will be responsible for preparing five (5) Cases during the
semester and a final project. Four (4)
of these cases are team projects and require an oral presentation. In addition the Final Project is also a team
project and includes an oral presentation.
All assignments must be professionally prepared. PowerPoint presentations are recommended. Performance evaluations will
be completed by each team member for every group project (see attached). NEW: Performance evaluations (RTF format)
Generally the term
"Case" refers to a Case Application in the textbook, however, it may
also refer to an Internet Exercise, a Team Project or a Group Exercise,
depending upon the topic. The group size
and number of projects is dependent upon the course enrollment. During each oral presentation, the entire
class is expected to participate, i.e., be prepared to bring up the salient
issues from the materials upon which the Cases are based. In-class presentations will count 100 points
each and their associated written report will count an additional 100 points
(200 points total). Written cases which
are not presented in class, will count 100 points each. The cases/projects during the semester will
count 900 points of your grade (out of 1470 points). All written reports should be 3-5 pages in
length (appendices are not included in this page count). Be sure to answer all case questions in the
order given. All presentations must
include a written report and a hard and softcopy of all presentation
materials. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes. In class presentations will be evaluated
and graded by the instructor and all students.
In essence you will be actively participating in a real decision
support system (DSS) every class period.
The midterm examination (250
points) will be an in-class, open note
and open book examination based upon an actual case study. The examination will be designed to test your
reasoning ability.
The Final Case Project will be
assigned immediately after the midterm examination. As with the other cases, use the questions at
the end of the case to guide your presentation.
The final project counts 250 points of your grade (limit 10 pages;
excluding attachments).
Final Project 1
[TBA]
Final Project 2 [TBA]
Class attendance is mandatory.
There is a 70 point incentive (5%) for perfect attendance. 35 points will be deducted from this
incentive for each unexcused absence.
ONLY 1 excused (prior to class) absence per semester is permitted.
Grading
Summary
PreFinal Grades [Posted as
available]
Attendance INCENTIVE
70 points 70 points
1 Individual written case 100
points 100 points
4 In-class Presentation (includes write up) 200 points each 800 points
Midterm examination 250
points 250 points
Final Project 150
points 250 points
Total Points 1,470
points
Additional BONUS assignments may be assigned at the instructor’s
discretion.
Online Research Resources
at UNT
A vast array of online resources are available to you at the
following UNT Library Link:
http://www.library.unt.edu/research-tools/class-pages/bcis-dr-jack-becker/
Please plan to use these resources
with every project you do for my class.
Leave no “stones unturned”! Be a
good seeker of the truth.
BCIS 5610
Spring 2008 Schedule (Rev:
1/16/2008): Subject to modification
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Week |
Topic |
T/A/L
Reading |
Projects; I.E. = Internet Exercise; Case=End of
Chapter Case |
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1. Jan 16 |
Management Support Systems: An Overview. Class Objectives. |
Chapter 1 |
p. 6: Ques. for Opening Vig.
1.1; p 40: Ex.1 [TUN]; p. 41: Case 1 |
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2. Jan 23 |
Decision Making, Systems, Modeling and Support |
Chapter 2 |
[All; W]p. p. 179: Ex. 6 MBI Case (pp 154-159); AND p. 79: I.E. 2 & 3 [Use Tables!!] |
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3. Jan 30 |
Decision Support Systems (DSS) |
Chapter 3 |
p. 128: Case 3; AND p.
127: Ex 2 (provide .ppt tour Power’s site) |
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4. Feb
6 |
Modeling and Analysis |
Chapter 4 |
p. 179: I.E. 7 (SAS EM and
2 others); OR p. 180: Case 4 MLB |
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5. Feb 13 |
Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing (also visit, Data
Warehousing Institute website) |
Chapters S & 5 |
P 203: Survey &
compare at least 5 of the Resource Links; OR p, 247: Ex. 1 (Coke); OR p. 249:
Case 5 (Overstock.com) |
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6. Feb 20 |
Business Analytics & Data Visualization; Data, Text,
Web Mining |
Chapter 6 & 7
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p. 298 : Case 6 (GIS);
OR p. 340 : Case 7 (HP) |
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7. Feb 28 |
Systems Development & Acquisition |
Chapter 15 |
P 705: I.E. 6 & 8; OR
p. 705: Case 15 (Sterngold) |
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8. Mar
5 |
Midterm Examination |
Ch. 1-7; 15 |
In-class
CASE |
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9. Mar 12 |
Business Performance Mgt; and Balanced Scorecard |
Chapter 9 |
p. 427: I.E. 4 & 5; OR
I.E. 6 & 7; OR p. 429:Case 9 (Western
Dig) |
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Mar 15-23 |
SPRING BREAK |
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10. Mar 26 |
Collaborative Computing Support Technologies |
Chapter 10 |
p. 475: I.E. 2 & 3; OR
I.E. 4; OR p. 475:Case 10 (DKW Wiki) |
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11. Apr 2 |
Knowledge Management; |
Chapter 11 |
p. 524: I.E. 4 & 5; OR
p. 524: Case 11(DaimlerChrysler EBOK) |
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12. Apr 9 |
AI and Expert Systems |
Chapter 12 |
p. 573: I.E. 1, 2 & 4;
OR; p. 573: Case 12 (FBFS) |
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13. Apr 16 |
Intelligent Software Agents over the Internet |
Chapter 14 |
p. 658: Ex 4 & 5; OR
p. 658: I.E. 5 (include a description of the Semantic Web); OR p. 659 Case 14
(Spartan) |
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14. Apr 25 |
Advanced Intelligent Systems: e.g., Neural Computing |
Chaps 13 & 8 |
p. 611: I.E. 2 & 5; OR
p. 611: I.E. 8,9 & 11; OR p. 611
Case 13 (Barclays) |
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15. Apr 30 |
Advanced Intelligent Systems: e.g., Neural Computing CLASS Evaluations |
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p. 379 I.E. 1 & 2; OR
p. 380: Case 8 (Sovereign) |
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16. May 7 |
Final
Projects in lieu of Exam |
TBA |
Final project 1; 30 min
each team |
Americans
with Disabilities Act Information
The College of Business Administration complies with
the Americans with Disabilities Act in making reasonable accommodations for
qualified students with disabilities. If
you have an established disability as defined in the Americans with
Disabilities Act and would like to request accommodations please see me
immediately. Usually the ADA office in
the Student Union is the students’ initial point of contact and it is that
office that would inform me of what is the norm in accommodations. This notification must be done well before
the scheduled event.
The BCIS
Department expects its students to behave at all times in an ethical and legal
manner. There are at least two reasons
for this. First, ethical behavior
affirms the personal value and worth of the individual. Second, both IT and Decision Science
professionals frequently handle confidential information on behalf of their
employers and clients. Thus employers of
BCIS and DSCI graduates expect ethical conduct from their employees because
that behavior is crucial to the success of the organization.
Academic
dishonesty is a major violation of ethical and legal behavior. The BCIS Department defines academic
dishonesty as claiming the work of others as your own, or using illegal or
unapproved means to raise your grade in a class. Examples include: copying answers from another
person’s paper; using unapproved notes during an exam; copying computer code
from another person’s work; having someone else complete your assignments or
take tests on your behalf; stealing code printouts, software, or exams;
recycling assignments submitted by others in prior or current semesters as your
own; and copying the words or ideas of others from books, articles, reports,
presentations, etc. for use as your own thoughts without proper attribution
(i.e., plagiarism). It does not matter
whether you received permission from the owner of the copied work; claiming the
material as your own is still academic dishonesty.
The
student’s grade for academic dishonesty in BCIS classes is an immediate “F” for
the course involved and referral of the case to the COBA Academic Advising
Office.
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ethically in this class, and will encourage my classmates to behave ethically.
I also understand that I have a moral responsibility to report to my instructor
any suspected case of academic dishonesty in this class.
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