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Business Systems Analysis and Decision Making

Business Systems Analysis and Decision Making. ISQS 5340, Summer II, 2006 Instructor: Zhangxi Lin Office: BA 708 Phone: 742-1926 E-mail: zhangxi.lin@ttu.edu Homepage: http://zlin.ba.ttu.edu Class meetings: M-F 1-2:50p, LH008 Office hours: M-R 3-4p. About me. PhD, IS, UT Austin, 1999

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Business Systems Analysis and Decision Making

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  1. Business Systems Analysis and Decision Making ISQS 5340,Summer II, 2006 Instructor: Zhangxi Lin Office: BA 708 Phone: 742-1926 E-mail: zhangxi.lin@ttu.eduHomepage: http://zlin.ba.ttu.edu Class meetings: M-F 1-2:50p, LH008 Office hours: M-R 3-4p

  2. About me • PhD, IS, UT Austin, 1999 • MS, Economics, UT Austin, 1996 • MEng, CS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1982 • EE, Tongji University, Shanghai, 1978-1979 • Hometown: Fuzhou, China

  3. My hometown Fuzhou

  4. Prerequisite • ISQS 5137 and MKT 5360

  5. Course Description • The use of • information, • management information systems, • decision theory, and • knowledge management • to improve business processes and decisions for sustainable competitive advantage.

  6. Learning objectives • Explain the process of decision making • Identify opportunities for using information technology to improve decision making. • Identify situations where decision making can fall prey to biases, and explain how the biases could occur. • Identify pitfalls, and make suggestions for improvement, in negotiations. • Recognize situations that affect the ethics of decisions. • Understand the use of databases and data warehousing techniques. • Understand basic approaches of business intelligence. • Recommend approaches to improve decision making.

  7. Course structure • Behavioral decision making topics, 50% • Biases, Preferences, Motivational influences, Fairness, Ethicality, Negotiation, Bounded rationality • Normative decision making topics, 25% • Modeling decision making, uncertainty, preferences • Business intelligence and IT topics, 25% • Regression, classification, web mining, database, data ware housing.

  8. Textbooks • Required Text Book: • Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, 6th Ed, by Max Bazerman (2006), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 0-471-68430-9. • References: • Making Hard Decisions, by R. T. Clemen and T. Reilly (2001), Duxbury, ISBN: 0-534-42199-7 • Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide, by David Loshin, Morgan Kaufmann (June 2003), ISBN: 1558609164

  9. Grading Policy • 10 quizzes out of 12 (100 points) • In-class exercises (80 points) • Homework (40 points) • Presentation (40 points) The total is 260 points. Plus Extra points up to 20 for class activity involvement

  10. Make-up Test • No make-up test for the quizzes

  11. Contact • Before or after class in the classroom. • Drop by during office hours. • Email me at zhangxi.lin@ttu.edu. • Call 742-1926 • All important announcements will be made via e-mail. You are responsible for checking your e-mail everyday for any communication from the instructor.

  12. After this class • Sign up to the class website • http://zlin.ba.ttu.edu/5340/signup.html • Project group sign up • http://129.118.51.86/cgi-bin/zlin/class/group_input.pl?class=5340&old=sum06

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