Chapter 4 Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems (2 hours)
In this chapter, students will learn about the moral and social problems brought about by information
systems. With the rapid development of information technology, personal privacy has gradually been
violated. Therefore, it is necessary to know when technology should be vigorously improved and when it
should be cautious to move forward.
Chapter 5 IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies (2 hours)
In this chapter, students will learn about the changing trends of software and hardware platforms and the
components of IT facilities. Generally speaking, the software platform will further develop towards browsers
and software systems. And the hardware platform will take cloud computing as the main trend in the future.
Chapter 6 Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management (2 hours)
In this chapter, students will learn some practical operations to understand the functions of the database.
We'll show you how to use databases to organize data and use them to improve business performance and
business decisions.
Chapter 7 Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology (2 hours)
In this chapter, students will learn about the development history and future direction of the
telecommunications industry. The telecommunication industry will closely integrate wired and wireless
networks to provide more efficient services for human beings.
Chapter 8 Securing Information Systems (2 hours)
In this chapter, students will learn about many potential threats to databases and the serious consequences
of data disclosure. To this end, we need to develop security measures for information systems in a timely
manner.
Chapter 9 Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications (2
hours)
In this chapter, students will have a deep understanding of how information systems can help enterprises
gain competitive advantage through several cases. Information system plays two main functions. The first is
the supply chain of management system. The second is to facilitate the communication between enterprises
and customers and maintain customer stickiness.
Chapter 10 E-Commerce: Digital Markets, Digital Goods (2 hours)
In this chapter, students will learn about new e-commerce and how to build attractive e-commerce
websites. At the same time, we believe that e-commerce is bound to show great promise on mobile phones
in the future, so this chapter focuses on the introduction of mobile phone digital platform and mobile phone
e-commerce.
Chapter 11 Managing Knowledge (2 hours)
In this chapter, students will learn not only that business information needs system management, but also
that knowledge is an important part of information system management in the future. Firstly, this chapter will
introduce the tremendous role that knowledge content will play in the future, and then it will describe how to
use intelligent technology to manage knowledge content.
Chapter 12 Enhancing Decision Making (2 hours)
In this chapter, students will be re-exposed to business decision-making related knowledge, but students
will learn business wisdom in different groups, and how to create appropriate information systems to use
these business wisdom.
Chapter 13 Building Information Systems (2 hours)
This chapter will introduce the overall overview of the development of information systems, and provide
several ways to build information systems. After that, we will propose several practical projects of
management information systems for students to experience. At the end of this chapter, we will introduce the
application development trend of digital company for students' reference.
Chapter 14 Software Process Model (2 hours)
This chapter introduces several common software process models: waterfall model, rapid prototype model,
incremental model, spiral model, and agile process model (extreme programming).
Chapter 15 Structured Analysis (2 hours)