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LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
Introduction
1Course Introduction
Role of the Organization in IT
2Should the General Manager Care to Learn IT?
Positioning and IT
3Re-Positioning the Value Proposition Through IT
4Aligning Programs and Processes
The MIT View of the Firm
5Electronic Markets and Supply Change Management
6Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture (I): "Under the Hood" of a Commercial Website
7Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture (II): Transaction Streams
8A View Into the Future: Web Technologies Basics and the Semantic WebHand out Tech Assignment
IT-Enabled Operational Effectiveness
9SAP in Manufacturing
What Should the CEO Know About ERPs?
10Aligning IT and the Organization: Role of Artificial Intelligence and Other Forecasting Technologies
11The Central Nervous System of Automated Virtual Manufacturing Plants

Guest Speaker: Jim Miller, VP Supply Chain & Logistics, Cisco Systems, Inc.

http://www.cisco.com
12Linking Process Modeling Architecture with ERP
The Case of American Meter Company, ARIS and SAP

Guest Lecture: Ed Brady, IT Director, American Meter Company

http://www.americanmeter.com
13The Little-man ComputerHand out SQL/LMC Assignment
14IT 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.

http://www.intel.com
15Embedded 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
16Introduction to Databases, Data Modeling and XML
IT Implementation and Delivery
17Role of Senior Management in the Implementation Process
The Case of Handheld Devices
18Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture (III): Computer Security/CryptographySQL/LMC Assignment Due
19Implementing Computer Vision Solutions in Manufacturing

Guest Speaker: Pam Lipson, Founder / CEO, Imagen Inc.
Technology Assignment Due
20Steel Manufacturing and Cross-Company Processes
Delivering an Industry-wide IT Solution

Guest Speaker: Richard Rowe, Founder of RoweCom
Conclusion: The Future of IT, Manufacturing, and You
21Artificial Intelligence and the Robots of the Future

Guest Speaker: Prof. Rodney Brooks Director, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

http://www.ai.mit.edu/
22Strategic Framing: Broadband Technologies and the Information Value-chainTake Home Final Given out with Agenda
23What Should the CEO Know About Manufacturing?
Wireless Technologies and 3G

Guest Speaker: Lars-Göran Hansson, Manufacturing Processes, Ericsson

http://www.ericsson.com
24Course ClosureTake Home Final Due
 


 



 








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