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ISM 50 - Business Information Systems

Lecture 2 Guest Instructor: Yi Zhang Class Instructor: John Musacchio UC Santa Cruz September 26, 2006

Reminder: Business Analysis Paper

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Due Thursday!

„ As a group, turn in 3 things:

List of your proposed group members.

List of companies you would like to study.

Suggested person to do the 5 minutepresentation on your group’s project. ‰ If you don’t have someone in mind towork with, turn in the above 3 things asan individual.

Review: Business Analysis Paper „

Go to class web page and click on businesspaper in the announcements for detailedguidelines. „ Paper Should Have: ‰ Industry Profile ‰ Company Profile ‰ Information Technology ‰ Leadership ‰ Market and Financial Performance ‰ Trajectory

Review: Citing Sources „

Plagiarism is illegal and cheating and willnot be tolerated!!! „ More than thirty words verbatim must becited. „ Any facts or figures that are not your ownmust be cited. ‰ Ebay’s revenues in the US in 2002 were $1.39billion [1]. [1] Ebay 2005 Annual Report.

Review: Citing Sources „

The easiest way to lose points on yourpaper is to not cite sources! „ Guide on the class website will help youcite your sources correctly. „ Talk to the TA or Instructor if you havequestions.

Review: Suggested sources of Information „ Company website „ 10K report ‰ (This is the annual report public companies file with Security andExchange Commission.) „ Article Databases ‰ A database of articles from magazines like “Business Week” andeconomics journals. ‰ Find it at: http://library.ucsc.edu ‰ Click on “article database” on left margin. ‰ Click on “LexisNexis Academic ” or try “Business Source Premier from Ebsco Host” ‰ Try this tonight! And let us know if you have problems on Thursday „ Industry specific publications „ Books „ Good Magazines ( The Economist) „ Consulting groups: Forrester, Gartner, …

Where are we, and how did we gethere? „ Let’s survey the history of IT over thepast few decades!^ The History of IT from 1960-

IT Mgmt from 1960-2000 „

The author (Nolan) breaks down historyinto 3 eras ‰ Data Processing Era ‰ Micro Era ‰ Network Era „ A logical division, but not universal ‰ Messerschmitt divides into 4 phases „ Centralized, Time shared, de-centralized, networked

The Data Processing (DP) Era (1960-1980) „

Needed to keep track of massive amountsof data for ‰ Payroll ‰ Payments to customers and suppliers, ‰ etc.

The Data Processing (DP) Era (1960-1980) „

Meanwhile computers were developed forscientific and defense purposes

DP Era (1960-1980) „

Commercial computing evolved… „ 1954 -- IBM 650 dominates commercialmarket ‰ Leased for $3,250 per month (over $22,000per month in today’s dollars!)

IBM 360 1964 – IBM 360,

‰ Interoperable peripheral and computer family ‰ Great improvement over previous generation ‰ A massive development effort by IBM ‰ Ensured IBMs dominance in the 60s and 70s

DP Era (1960-1980) „ Technology Evolution ‰ First - Stand Alone Mainframes ‰ Next – Dumb terminals attached to mainframe ‰ (“Time-Shared” Phase in Messerschmitt’sterminology)

Data Processing Era (1960-1980) „ The information resource manager wasknown as the Data Processing (DP) manager. ‰ Charged with supporting the business ‰ Not with changing how the business was run