LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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Introduction | ||
1 |
Course Introduction |
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Role of the Organization in IT | ||
2 | Should the General Manager Care to Learn IT? | |
Positioning and IT | ||
3 | Re-Positioning the Value Proposition Through IT | |
4 | Aligning Programs and Processes
The MIT View of the Firm |
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5 | Electronic Markets and Supply Change Management | |
6 | Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture (I): "Under the Hood" of a Commercial Website | |
7 | Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture (II): Transaction Streams | |
8 | A View Into the Future: Web Technologies Basics and the Semantic Web | Hand out Tech Assignment |
IT-Enabled Operational Effectiveness | ||
9 | SAP in Manufacturing
What Should the CEO Know About ERPs? |
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10 | Aligning IT and the Organization: Role of Artificial Intelligence and Other Forecasting Technologies | |
11 |
The Central Nervous System of Automated Virtual Manufacturing Plants Guest Speaker: Jim Miller, VP Supply Chain & Logistics, Cisco Systems, Inc. |
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12 | Linking Process Modeling Architecture with ERP The Case of American Meter Company, ARIS and SAP Guest Lecture: Ed Brady, IT Director, American Meter Company |
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13 | The Little-man Computer | Hand out SQL/LMC Assignment |
14 | IT and Productivity Cost Reduction of IT Automation Within Intel Manufacturing Plants Guest Speaker: Stanley Stanzyk, Automation Manager in Charge of Computing Cost Reduction. Intel Corp. |
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15 |
Embedded Intelligence, RFIDs and the Auto-ID Initiative Guest Speaker: Prof. Sanjay E. Sarma, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Co-Founder and Research Director of the Auto-ID Center at MIT |
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16 | Introduction to Databases, Data Modeling and XML | |
IT Implementation and Delivery | ||
17 |
Role of Senior Management in the Implementation Process The Case of Handheld Devices |
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18 | Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture (III): Computer Security/Cryptography | SQL/LMC Assignment Due |
19 | Implementing Computer Vision Solutions in Manufacturing Guest Speaker: Pam Lipson, Founder / CEO, Imagen Inc. Technology Assignment Due |
Technology Assignment Due |
20 |
Steel Manufacturing and Cross-Company Processes Delivering an Industry-wide IT Solution Guest Speaker: Richard Rowe, Founder of RoweCom |
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Conclusion: The Future of IT, Manufacturing, and You | ||
21 | Artificial Intelligence and the Robots of the Future Guest Speaker: Prof. Rodney Brooks Director, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
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22 | Strategic Framing: Broadband Technologies and the Information Value-chain | Take Home Final Given out with Agenda |
23 | What Should the CEO Know About Manufacturing? Wireless Technologies and 3G Guest Speaker: Lars-G?ran Hansson, Manufacturing Processes, Ericsson |
Take Home Final Due |
24 | Course Closure |