MBADM830

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Schedule

Spring and Fall Semesters: 16 weeks
Summer Semester: 12 weeks

All assignments are due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on the last day of each lesson, except where noted.

Lesson 1: Introduction: Managing in the Digital Economy
Readings	Required Syllabus Lesson 1 commentary Recommended Core Curriculum: Technology Strategy, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Series Editor, available via Harvard Business Publishing coursepack. For a fascinating history of the early MIS field, please read the classic article: Haigh, T. 2001. Inventing information systems: The systems men and the computer, 1950–1968, Business History Review, 75: 1–60 Learn more about interpreting Gartner’s Hype Cycle (Recorded Webinar – approximately 15 minutes) - See Lesson 1 Summary page Ellet (2018). The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition: A Student's Guide. Harvard Business Review. Optional If you are interested in learning the foundations of networking (and the Internet), please check out Welcome to the Network (linkedin.com) (1 hour 48 minutes)
Activities	Course Overview Zoom Session: Course Overview Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

Lesson 2: Digitization
Readings	*Required* Lesson 2 commentary *Recommended* Review Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2023. (See Lesson 2 Summary page)
Activities	Case Discussion: Digital Transformation in Vocento (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday) Group Contract Assignment (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday)

Lesson 3: Industrial Internet of Things
Readings	*Required* Lesson 3 commentary Recommended Learn more about Industry 4.0. (Recorded Webinar – approximately 10 minutes) - See Lesson 3 Summary page Learn more about Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence. (Recorded Webinar – approximately 12 minutes) - See Lesson 3 Summary page *Optional* Watch IoT Foundations: Fundamentals with Bruce Sinclair. (37 minutes) for a broad overview of IoT and its main components.
Activities	Group Case Memo 1 Zoom Session Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Case Discussion: Digital Transformation in GE: What went wrong? (Due 11:59 p.m. Sunday)

Lesson 4: Social Applications of Digitization
Readings	*Required* Lesson 4 commentary
Activities	Group Case Memo 1: The ITC e-Choupal Initiative Memo (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday)

Lesson 5: Artificial Intelligence
Readings	*Required* Lesson 5 commentary *Recommended* Review Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence. (See Lesson 5 Summary page) Learn more about Neural Networks. (Recorded Webinar – approximately 16 minutes) - See Lesson 5 Summary page Learn more about Large Language Models. (Recorded Webinar – approximately 10 minutes)- See Lesson 5 Summary page
Activities	Group Case Memo 1 Resubmission Zoom Session Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Case Discussion: Open AI and Large Language Models (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday)

Lesson 4: Social Applications of Digitization Revisited
Readings	None
Activities	Group Case Memo 1: The ITC e-Choupal Initiative Memo Resubmission (Optional) (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday)

Lesson 5: Artificial Intelligence Revisited
Readings	none
Activities	Zoom Session Tuesday, October 8 Case Discussion: IBM Watson Challenges (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday) Group Case Peer Evaluation 1 (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday) Group Case Memo 2: Honeywell Evaluating the Cognitive Analytics Frontier Memo (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday)

Lesson 6: Data Analytics
Readings	*Required* Lesson 6 commentary *Recommended* Review Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Analytics and Business Intelligence, 2023. - See Lesson 6 Summary page Learn more about Data warehouses, Data lakes, Data lakehouses, etc.(Recorded Webinar – approximately 16 minutes) - See Lesson 6 Summary page
Activities	Case Discussion: Dow Chemical Company: Big Data (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday)

Lesson 7: Cloud Computing
Readings	*Required* Lesson 7 commentary *Recommended* Review Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2023. (See Lesson 7 Summary page) Optional Watch Future of Cloud: From Technology to Business Innovation, Gartner Video, (28 minutes) If you wish to learn more about *Containers and Kubernetes, please read, Gartner, 2022, CTO’s Guide to Containers and Kubernetes – Answering the Top 10 FAQs (17-minute read) If you wish to learn more about Virtualization, please read Introduction to Virtualization: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners. (20-minute read*) For associations active in this area, see the following links. Cloud Computing Association Cloud Security Alliance Legal Cloud Computing Association
Activities	CloudStrat Simulation Zoom Session Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Case Discussion: In the Cloud (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday) Group Simulation: CloudStrat Performance (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday) Group Simulation: CloudStrat Report (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday)

Lesson 8: Blockchain
Readings	Required Lesson 8 commentary *Recommended* Review Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Blockchain and Web3, 2023. (See Lesson 8 Summary page) Learn more about Darkweb (Recorded Webinar – approximately 16 minutes) - See Lesson 8 Summary page Optional For associations active in this area, see the following links. Blockchain Association Global Blockchain Business Council Global Blockchain Organization
Activities	Case Discussion: Ripple: The Business of Crypto (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday) Case Discussion: Trade IX:Blockchain-Enabled Trade Finance (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday)

Lesson 9: Cybersecurity
Readings	Required Lesson 9 commentary Recommended Review Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Cyber Risk Management, 2023. (See Lesson 9 Summary page) Review Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Data Security, 2023. (See Lesson 9 Summary page) *Optional* If you are interested in Cyber insurance, please refer to: Tsohou, A., Diamantopoulou, V. Gritzalis, S., Lambrinoudakis, C. 2023. Cyber insurance: State of the art, trends and future directions, International Journal of Information Systems, 22:737-748. For some exciting websites, click on the following links. Bleeping Computer Wired Cybersecurity Associations and Centers
Activities	Case Discussion: Micron Technologies: Ransomware Attack (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday) Group Case Peer Evaluation 2 (Due 11:59 p.m., Sunday) Individual Simulation: Cybersecurity (Due 11:59 p.m., Wednesday)