REMINDERS: Ongoing

(Part of Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM)

The Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India)

Designed & Presented by

Bhuvan Unhelkar, PhD, FACS

bhuvan@MethodScience.com
Mobile: 0413-821-454;
MethodScience 2001-2013

Mutual Protocols
Pleeease

Please: Let us remain courteous in all our

discussions
Please: Keep Phones on Silent & Laptops off
Please: Ask most questions in Class so that
others will benefit by the Q&A
Please: Avoid walking in and out of the lecture
during the presentation
Please: Try not to leave first rows empty
Please: Avoid browsing/screens (social media)
during the lecture
Please: Mention your first name when you talk
with me (at least initially so that I can remember you)
Please browse through next weeks material
Feel free to address
me by
mySystem
first
Course: Management
Information
(MIS)name
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Sub-Module

Mid-Term Quiz
20%; Week 7;

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Mid-Term Quiz
22 Aug, Friday, 2:30pm
Worth 20% of the course evaluation; 1 Hour
CLOSED-BOOK;
30 MCQ (to help consolidate) and
2 Descriptive (with examples required from
Case study)
Feedback within these sessions (face to face)

Sample Descriptive Questions in

the mid-term test
"Business Process Re-engineering is all about
ensuring that the business is organized in a
customer-centric manner". Explain the concept
of BPR. Your answer MUST contain examples
from your case study (Project work). (15 marks)
Data forms the fundamental basis for a
Management Information System. For a typical
MIS data strategy would typically involved slowmoving and fast-moving data. Describe the
different characteristics of Data in a MIS. Your
description needs to have examples from your
case study (project work). (15 marks).
Course: Big Data Mgmt & Buss Informatics
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Sub-Module

Group Project Work

Based on Case Studies

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Group Project Work

5th Sep 2014
Worth 30% of the course evaluation;
Work Has to be carried out in GROUPS
Each Group will receive ONE common Evaluation (Mark)
Individual Marks may vary based on Intra-group student
feedback

Two Deliverables: Report and Presentation

Group Presentation on 27th Aug; 15 mins
including Q&A
Report, in WORD, and PPTx to be submitted
Electronically

Logistics - Protocols
All groups & group members to be present
please arrive 10 minutes before time
Presentation must be submitted BEFORE the
class
Please occupy first rows first; No walk-in/out,
No mobiles, No laptops, No talk etc.
One group from each domain will be invited to
present: 12 mins + Q&A
So, total of 5 presentations + my conclusions

Based on discussions, you update your project

report and submit your presentation / report
online.

Great Lakes Institute, Chennai, India; MethodScience

Presentation: 27th Aug, 2014

Introduction
Client (Context)
EA

Stakeholders +
Needs,
Opportunities

Business
Processes
(Models,
Management)

Enterprise
Architecture
(Zachman)

Data types,
strategy

SMAC in your
ERP

Lifecycle
(Composite
Agile)

Quality
Approach /
Social Issues

External
Systems

Great Lakes Institute, Chennai, India; MethodScience

Conclusion &
Recommendation

Sub-Module

Final Exam
3 hours; Closed book

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Final Exam 6th Sep

Worth 50% of the course evaluation;
CLOSED-book
2 hours (120 mins)
MCQ in two parts: Easy (20 marks, 40
questions), Challenging (10 marks, 10
questions)
Descriptive : (20 marks) ANY 4 out of 6
Questions with examples required from the
Project Work

Health Agriculture
Education Banking Production
Lets review together the Project Template
with its descriptions
Learning will happen through investigations,
(explorations, research), team discussions, disagreements, documentation, report creation
and presentation
Each Group will present 15 minutes on their
MIS deployment strategy in the given domain in
the last of these sessions