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Course catalog descriptions for courses offered in all currently published terms.
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Business Information Technology |
Department Chairperson: Krishnan, M.S.
Department Website: http://www.bus.umich.edu/Academics/Departments/CIS
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| BIT 512 |
Decision Support with Spreadsheets |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W10(A), W09(A), F09(A), F08(A), S08 |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in BIT 311, 511 |
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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 |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09(B), W09(B), M08, F08(B), W10(B) |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in BIT 511, CIS 511, OMS 564 |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: BIT 311, BIT 512, or permission of instructor |
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Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications --- This course, a continuation of CIS512, 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 515 |
Business Application Development with Visual Basic for Excel |
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2.25 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W10(B) |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: BIT 512 |
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Business Application Development with Visual Basic for Excel --- This course demonstrates how to use VBA in Excel to automate repetitive and time consuming tasks, generate interactive reports, manipulate charts, filter databases, and run solver. Examples of specific decision support applications, such as product mix and portfolio optimization are presented. Students will develop advanced technical skills with Visual Basic for Excel, and learn how to utilize VBA to create efficient and user friendly business applications. Specifically, students will learn how to enhance applications created in Excel with customized dialog boxes, user defined functions, event-handling procedures, customized toolbars, and more. The course also introduces general programming concepts such as the use of Variables, If statements, Loops, and assignment statements. |
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| BIT 601 |
Accounting Information System Design |
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1.5 hours |
Core |
Terms Offered: F09(A), F08(A) |
| | Cross-listed with: ACC 601 |
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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. |
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| BIT 623 |
Information Technology Strategy in Supply Chain and Logistics |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09(B) |
| | Cross-listed with: OMS 623 |
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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. |
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| BIT 630 |
New Age of Innovation |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F08, F09(A) |
| | Cross-listed with: STRATEGY 630 |
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New Age of Innovation --- This course introduces students to the emerging nature of competition and the critical capabilities that firms need to build to thrive in this environment. Based on the contents in a book co-authored by professors C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan, the course presents a different perspective on business innovation focusing on co-creating customer experience and global resource leverage with the social and technical architecture in the firm as the two key enablers. The specific implications for various business functions in this new approach to compete will be discussed. Students interested in functional roles or consulting will find this course useful. |
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| BIT 644 |
Introduction to Microfinance |
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2.25 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09(B), F08(B) |
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Introduction to Microfinance --- This live broadcast of a 7-week seminar speaker series hosted by the Haas School of Business University of California explores why and how microfinance operations have grown to proved financial services to poor and low-income people on a sustainable basis. The class brings together advice and best practices from successful practitioners and institutions around the world as well as new technology startups targeting the industry. This course will provide students with an excellent introduction to microfinance as an important development effort in the war against poverty, and it will also serve as an excellent forum to learn about current challenges and debates in the world of microfinance. This course represents a unique partnering with the Haas School of Business. A 2-hour webcast will be followed by an additional hour of discussion led by Ross faculty. |
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| BIT 646 |
Solving Societal Problems Through Enterprise and Innovation |
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2.25 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09(A), F08(A) |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in BIT 645/STRATEGY 645 |
| | Cross-listed with: STRATEGY 646 |
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Solving Societal Problems Through Enterprise and Innovation --- The world's toughest problems can become opportunities for for-profit companies, non-profits, and other enterprises. These include challenges in the areas of poverty, health, education, the environment, and other social issues, such as treating women and children better. We will pay significant attention to how companies working at the economic base of the pyramid in the developing world and the West can develop successful businesses, though we will focus on other opportunities as well. We will see how many innovations in this area embrace new business approaches that are supported by leapfrog applications of information and communication technology.
We will look at many examples of societal development through enterprise, try to spot trends, and look for frameworks. We will see that part of what makes such solutions work is finding ways to adopt innovative perspectives and devise innovative solutions.
This course is non-technical, highly interactive, and requires no special background. It should be of interest to those wishing to understand where new business opportunities for serving society lie and how organizations can innovate to take advantage. |
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| BIT 648 |
Projects in Solving Societal Problems Through Enterprise and Innovation |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F08(B) |
| | Course Prerequisites: No credit in BIT 645/STRATEGY 645 |
| | Cross-listed with: STRATEGY 648 |
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Projects in Solving Societal Problems Through Enterprise and Innovation --- Students work on real-life projects involving solving societal problems through for-profit and non-profit enterprises. These include challenges in the areas of poverty, health, education, the environment, and other social issues, such as treating women and children better. Projects will address problems and opportunities in either the U.S. or the developing world, though no travel is required. The course will be a practicum involving a combination of individual group meetings and occasional lectures and presentations that promote synthesis and cross-project learning. |
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| BIT 678 |
Service Innovation Management |
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1.5 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: W09(A) |
| | Cross-listed with: MKT 678 |
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Service Innovation Management --- 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. |
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| BIT 750 |
Independent Study Project |
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1 - 3 hours |
Elective |
Terms Offered: F09, S09, W09, M08, M09, F08, W10, S08 |
| | Advisory Prerequisites: Graduate standing |
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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. |
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