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November 10, 2005
Goal Learning and the MIS class
I'm teaching 'IS within organizations' this week. While very important, I find this topic hard to teach. It tends to become one acronym after another -- here's an MRP, here's an MRP II, here's a CRM, here's an ERP, and here's an EAI. So, I decided to try my new-found knowledge about goal oriented learning. I started class with the assignment of several goals. Here's one of them:
Use the concept of value chains to compare and contrast functional versus cross-functional information systems.
To do this, the students first must understand Porter's value chain model and which functional systems relate to each value activity. Then they need to understand how cross functional systems like ERP and EAI support value chain linkages, and finally, how the nature of such cross functional systems makes them hard to implement. If they can do all of that, then I think they will have learned what I would have hoped they'd learn by reading the chapter. But, their reading will be directed to that goal. We'll see...
Posted by DavidK at November 10, 2005 07:25 PM | Permalink