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Information SystemsLeadership

MIS 4V98, Section 14

Spring 2009, Tuesday’s 3:30-6:30, CB 311

Instructor:

/ Dr. Hope Koch CPA, MBA, PhD (pronounced Cook)

Phone No.:

/ 2547104071

Email:

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Office Hours:

/ Tuesday: 9:45-12:15, Thursday: 8:45-12:15

Office Location:

/ No. 169, Information Systems Suite South

Website:

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Course Objectives

Information systems (IS) is becoming increasingly critical to every organization’s strategy. In fact, in many companies like FaceBook, IS is the company’s strategy. As a result, companies need leaders that understand IS. The purpose of this class is to develop those leaders.

The most pressing issue facing IS leaders is recruiting and retaining the IS workforce[1]. In the next several years much of the IS workforce will retire. At the same time, organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on IS and most new job growth is in the IS area[2].

As such, in this term’s IS leadership class, students will learn IS leadership in the context of attracting and recruiting IS professionals. This class is experientially based. Learning will occur by giving students opportunities to develop their leadership skills in a real-world setting and providing the tools to help student maximize these opportunities. Tools include coaching, mentoring, reading material and opportunity for reflection. The goal of this learning is to develop effective IS leaders that know how to recruit IS professionals.

As part of this learning, students will develop their professional competency skills and technical skills.

We will develop the following professional competency skills: written and oral communication, project management, influence, networking, creativity, research and teamwork.

We will develop technical skills by using collaborative technologies, project management technologies, customer relationship management technologies and databases. SharePoint will be the primary technology used in the class.

Course Material

  • Manning, G. and Curtis, K. (2007), The Art of Leadership, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, New York, NY.
  • Alessandra, T. (2002), Secrets of 10 Great Geniuses, Niles, Illinois, Nightingale-Conant Corporation.
  • Alessandra, T. (2001) The 10 Qualities of Charismatic People. Niles, Illinois, Nightingale-Conant Corporation.
  • Basham, L. (2007), Mental Management.
  • Cialdini, R. (1990), Instant Influence: How to Get What You Want in Any Business Situation, Dartnell.
  • Ferrazzi, K. and Raz, T. (2005), Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success One Relationship at a Time, Doubleday Publishing.
  • Loehr, J. and Schwartz, T. (2003), The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal, Simon and Schuster Adult Publishing Group.
  • Thomson, P. (2002), The Best-Kept Secrets of Great Communicators. Niles, Illinois, Nightingale-Conant Corporation.

Guidelines/Policies

Academic Integrity. Students must follow the University Honor code Baylor established this code to protect the integrity of those pursuing an education in an open and honest manner. Students who violate University rules on scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties. This may include course failure and University dismissal.

Attendance. Attendance is an important part of learning. I expect you to be in class, prepared, everyday all semester. Avoid coming in late or leaving early as this distracts the other students. I will take attendance daily. Being tardy twice constitutes an absence. Leaving early twice constitutes an absence.

The University attendance policy requires a minimum of 75% attendance for successful course completion. Students missing more than 25% of scheduled classes (4 classes) will not receive a passing grade regardless of class performance.

Grade Issues. Direct grading questions to me during office hours.

Evaluation

Grades / Grading Scale
Journal Check, 2/3 / 4% / A / 90 or higher
Journal Check, 3/3 / 4% / B+ / 87-89
Journal Check, 4/7 / 4% / B / 80 86
Journal Check, 5/7 / 4% / C+ / 77-79
Project / 24% / C / 70-76
Mid-semester evaluations / 15% / D / 60-69
Final Exam / 20% / F / Below 60
End of semester evaluations / 25%

Journal. Since the class is organized as a discussion group, the purpose of the journal is for you to record your reflections on the readings, your projects and the course material before class. You can us this to stimulate your thoughts for the discussion. Periodically, I will post questions for you to answer in your journal. Maintain your journal in one Word document entitled last nameLeadership Journal. For example, Follis Leadership Journal. I expect an average of 2 single-spaced typed pages each week. Date each entry.

Evaluations. Because each student will be involved in many projects with the professor and the other students in the class, most of the student’s grade will come from the professor’s and the classmates assessments of their performance in the class. The grading criteria for the assessment are below. 46% of the grade will be the professor’s assessment, 54% will be the classmates’ assessment. We will have mid-semester and end-of semester evaluations.

CRITERIA / Needs Improvement / Adequate / Good / Exceptional / COMMENTS
(Justify the score with comments)
Peer group points / .5 / 1 / 1.5 / 2
Instructor points / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10
Attendance: The team member attends all class meetings and extra meetings, on time for the entire time.
Initiative: The team member takes initiative on projects, rather than waiting on tasks to be assigned.
Meets deadlines: The team member completes assigned tasks done on time.
Engagement: The team member is engaged in the class and is willing to go the extra mile to help the group accomplish its mission.
Quality: The team member’s work and presentations are high quality, it only needs minor tweaks.

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SCHEDULE[3],[4]

Date / Material Covered and Required Readings / Deliverables
Part 1. Welcoming Students to the IS Major
Tuesday, 1/13 / Leadership class: Overview, purpose and expectations
Team Assignments
Review syllabus, reflect on your goals and contributions for the class and complete student information (name, cell phone, class schedule, work schedule, availability and biography—type and email to Sprague)
IS Orientation planning
Tuesday,
1/20 / 3:40 meet at Mayborn Center to go over flow of the orientation and technology (Griffin, Potter and Sprague)
4:10 rest of the class meets at Mayborn center to practice speeches
Assessment of the current IS job market (Potter and Sprague): This will be a 20 minute informal presentation where you discuss the current IS job market for students and the projections. Look in trade journals and find articles preferably from 10/2008 to present. Bring the article to class. Also, review the career services website for the career fair and talk with career service about how they see the market.
Prototypes of posters (Nelson) and IS Summit website (Follis) / Consolidate and upload information sheets –Sprague
AITP Website update-Potter
Thursday, 1/29 / IS Orientations 5:30-7:30
4:00 pm set-up for Orientation- Griffin
5:00 The rest of the leadership class arrives
Leadership class leaves last
Saturday, 1/31 / Winter Premiere Presentation-Kate Petusky and Hope Koch
Part 2. Developing Our Team, Creating Our Vision and Managing Our Project
Tuesday,
2/3 / Discuss IS Orientation: what you did at the orientation, recap of everyone’s contributions to the orientation, what went well and what to improve, thank you notes to Sungard
How we’re going to manage our projects: Share Point Presentation: David Cook
Presentation on Mental Management-Jessica Potter
Poster unveiling-Sunny Nelson
IS Summit Website-Steven Follis
Read
  • The IS Department’s website
  • Articles about 2007 and 2008’s IS Summit on the IS department’s website news archive 3/07, 4/07, 3/08, 4/08
  • The IS Department recruiting presentation-on Blackboard
  • MIS 1305 IS Summit assignment-on Blackboard
/ Journals due
Tuesday,
2/10 / 3:30-4:30 Presentations to Baylor’s Career Counselors, Kate Petusky with David Cook
IS Summit Website, Steven Follis
Discussion leader: Chasidy Griffin
Read and discuss these articles:
  • Manning, Ch. 5, The Importance of Vision
  • Manning, Ch. 6, The Motive to Lead
/ Journals dueupload these to SharePoint
Give Jonathan Sprague IS Summit Challenge teams
IS orientation photo album on AITP website-Potter
Tuesday,
2/17 / Potential Leadership Dinner with Mr. Bill Baker, Strategic Recruiting Manager Conoco Phillips
Attend Hire-A-Bear Career Fair on Wednesday, 2/18, 12:30-4:30
Student Leader:______Student Leader:______
Student Leader:______Student Leader:______
This involves going to the career fair and meeting the businesses recruiting IS students. If you already have a job, it would be good to take another major to the fair and show them the ropes. Be sure and visit the companies sponsoring the IS Summit.
IS Summit Companies in the MIS 1305 classrooms from 2/10-2/19.
Attend a presentation for the company you are in charge of
Anadarko / Protiviti-Steven Follis
ConocoPhillips-Kate Petusky or Chasidy Griffin / USAA
McLane Advanced Technologies
/ Email MIS 1305 students link to their folder by 2/19, Jonathan Sprague
Part 3. Recruiting
Tuesday,
2/24 / Student presentation: David Cook on the 10 Qualities of Highly Charismatic People
Learn to work as a team
  • Cover Alessandra, Tony. “Personality Profiles” in the 10 Qualities of Highly Charismatic People, David Cook will bring the material to class
Discussion Leader: Sunny Nelson
  • Manning, Ch. 16, The Team Concept
  • Manning, Ch. 22, The Role of Personality

Plan IS Summit: Flow, dinner, training for IS majors
Read Koch, H. and Kayworth, T. (2008) “A Social Perspective for Increasing IS Enrollment” / Mid-semester evaluations due
Tuesday,
3/3 / Student Presentation: Chasidy Griffin, Secrets of 10 Great Geniuses
Student Presentation: Jonathan Sprague, The Best-Kept Secrets of Great Communicators
Learn how to effectively meet with prospective students
  • Student presentation: Sunny Nelson, Never Eat Alone: and Other Secrets to Success One Relationship at a Time
  • Discussion Leader: Steven Follis
  • Read Manning, Ch. 18, The Art of Persuasion
/ Journals due
MIS brochure revamp ideas-David Cook
Sunny Nelson will have large propylene poster to advertise the MIS Summit
SPRING BREAK
Tuesday,
3/17 / Student Presentation: Steven Follis, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Judge MIS 1305 PowerPoint Presentations—we need to go through each team’s presentations and chose 5 finalists for each of the 6 $1000 awards
Jonathan Sprague: Teach students how to access bearspace and divide students into groups to do the judging. If possible, assign judges based on the class presentations that the student attended.
Tuesday,
3/24 / IS Summit Planning / Posters promoting the IS Summit need to be up
Thursday, 3/26 / IS Summit, 6:00-7:30 pm, 5th floor
5:30: All student leaders need to be at the Summit
Technology-Jonathan Sprague
Table Arrangements-Chasidy Griffin
Tuesday,
3/31
Tuesday,
4/7 / IS Summit recap: What went well at the Summit, what do we need to improve, writing thank you notes to people participating in the Summit
Using SharePoint to Manage AITP- Cook
Unveil AITP website-Potter / Journals due
Posters advertising end of semester party-Sunny Nelson
EASTER BREAK
Thursday,
4/16 / 1:30-4:30 Business Career Expo, 5th Floor
1:30-3:00 Shift, Student Leader:______Student Leader:______
3:00-4:30 Shift, Student Leader:______Student Leader:______
This involves working the IS booth at this expo with Dr. Tim Kayworth the department chairman and myself. BUS 1305 students will attend the expo to learn about the different majors in the business school. / Booth Design-Sunny Nelson
AITP Officer Elections-Griffin
Saturday, 4/18 / Spring Premiere Presentation, Hope Koch and Kate Petusky
Part 4. Reflecting
Tuesday,
4/21 / Read Manning, Ch. 25, Burnout Prevention
Student Presentation: Kate Petusky on “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time is Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
End of semester party plans-Chasidy Griffin
4/23 DIADELOSA
Tuesday,
4/28
Thursday, 5/7 / Final Exam, 3:30-6:30 / Journals due
Peer evaluations due
To schedule: end of semester party, leadership retreat

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[1] Luftman, J. (2007), SIM 2007 Survey Findings. Chicago, IL, Society for Information Management.

[2]United_States (2006-2007), Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 Edition, Bulletin 2600, Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[3] Because of the dynamic nature of the class, we may have to rearrange some parts of the syllabus.

[4] Italics dates denotesdifferent class meeting times. .