Course Descriptions
Course catalog descriptions for courses offered in all currently published terms.
 

Business Information Technology
Department Chairperson: Moore, Scott
Department Website: http://www.bus.umich.edu/Academics/Departments/BIT
 
 
BIT 512 Decision Support with Spreadsheets
  1.5 hours Elective Terms Offered: F12(A), W12(A)
  Course Prerequisites: No credit in TO 311, 511 
   
  Decision Support with Spreadsheets --- Spreadsheets have advanced to the point of providing powerful, general-purpose functionality and are among the most widely used decision-support tools in business today. This course deals with decision support using spreadsheets, including: what if analysis; financial, statistical and time/date functions; graphical presentation of data; organizing, sorting, querying and extracting information from spreadsheet and external databases and the World Wide Web; cross-tabulation of data; data tables; creation and management of scenarios; use of a solver to find optimal solutions to problems; the design to macros to support spreadsheet applications; and data maps. An expert level of spreadsheet use is achieved. Lecture-demonstrations illustrate relevant features of spreadsheet software. Students do assigned cases on a computer to reinforce and extend conceptual and operational aspects of the material. Windows-based spreadsheet software (such as Excel) is used.
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BIT 513 Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications
  1.5 hours Elective Terms Offered: W12(B), F12(B)
  Course Prerequisites: No credit in CIS 511, TO 511 or TO 564 
  Advisory Prerequisites: BIT 311, BIT 512, or permission of instructor 
   
  Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications --- This course, a continuation of BIT512, emphasizes problem solving using spreadsheet software. Extensive use is made of a spreadsheet solver (such as Solver in Excel) to formulate and solve practical optimization problems from such mathematical programming areas as linear, integer, and nonlinear programming, and multiple-objective decision making. Probabilistic modeling to support risk analysis in the context of spreadsheets is also studied, using native spreadsheet capabilities alone and then supplementing these capabilities with spreadsheet problem analysis, model formulation, implementation, execution and interpretation. Students do assigned computer word to reinforce and extend conceptual and operational aspects of the material.
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BIT 601 Accounting Information System Design
  1.5 hours Elective Terms Offered: F12(A)
  Cross-listed with: ACC 601 
   
  Accounting Information System Design --- This course will provide students with a thorough understanding of the design of information systems that support the accounting function of a firm. Topics to be covered will include business transaction cycles and processes, technology used for AIS, management of the system development life cycle, computer control and audit, IT governance, Sarbanes-Oxley and AIS, and COBIT. The course will be taught using lecture/discussion, cases, and hands-on exercises. The course will meet the accounting systems requirements for the CPA exam in all states.
 
 
BIT 623 Information Technology Strategy in Supply Chain and Logistics
  1.5 hours Elective Terms Offered: F12(B)
  Cross-listed with: OMS 623 
   
  Information Technology Strategy in Supply Chain and Logistics --- Digital technologies have permeated every aspect of modern business. The capacity to execute any business model rests heavily on the approach taken by firms in organizing their information architecture. This course will explore the role of information architecture on Supply Chain and Logistics functions. We will discuss the dominant technologies traditionally used in planning, forecasting, scheduling and managing supply chains. We will then explore the emerging new technologies such as SOA ( Service Oriented Architecture) that enable firms to innovate in their business models through dynamic engagement with their supply partners in an evolving global supply networks. Class discussions and case studies will include technology and business process choices in new product development, design, MRP, ERP, distribution and logistics.
 
 
BIT 678 Service Innovation Management: Developing Valuable e-Services
  1.5 hours Elective Terms Offered: F12(B)
   
  Service Innovation Management: Developing Valuable e-Services that Boost the Bottom Line --- Service Innovation Management focuses on the process of designing innovative new information-based services, including problem definition, research, design, development, and execution. Concepts include blueprinting, ideation, blue ocean strategy, branding, observation and interview, personas, storyboards, customer journey, stage-gate process and project portfolio management. Skills developed and tools gained in the class will be enduring and valuable for consultants, financial managers, marketers, and anyone else charged with leading a group in developing valuable new information-based services.
 
 
BIT 750 Independent Study Project
  1 - 3 hours Elective Terms Offered: F12, P12, W12, M12, S12
  Advisory Prerequisites: Graduate standing 
   
  Independent Study Project --- Independent study projects, supervised by faculty, are available to graduate business students in good academic standing. To select a project, students should consult the appropriate professor about the nature of the project and the number of credit hours the work would earn. Students earn one to three credit hours per project and may elect only one study project in a term. Graduate business students should consult their program bulletins for information
regarding total number of projects and credits that can be applied to their degree. To register for a project students must submit an approved Independent Study Project application, available online.