FOOD AND AGRI BUSINESS SCHOOL, HYDERABAD

PGDM (Agribusiness) - 2015-17

Year I
Trimester I: Information Technology and
Management Information Systems

Credits: 6 No. of sessions: 30

Course Instructor: Dr. Manoj Kumar Joshi

Course Objectives
The phenomenal growth of information technology usage in almost all types of organizations has created
dramatic change in methods and procedures, in information collection and dissemination techniques, in
management control processes, and in decision making activities.
This introductory course helps students appreciate the basic concepts of computers and their operating
systems, and the capabilities and limitations of computers for managerial decision making.The course
also provides basic concepts of Information Systems (IS), planning for IS, strategies and approaches to IS
implementation, managing security issues and future trends in IS, integrating information systems to
create sustainable competitive advantage.
Pedagogy
Concept building through classroom lectures, readings and in-class exercises and Skill development via
post-class exercises
Evaluation Pattern
Class Participation (Min. 75% attendance) 10%
Assignments 10%
Viva 10%
Mid Term 20%
End Term 50%
Text Book
Management Information Systems, C Laudon and Jane P Laudon, Pearson Education.
Reference Book
Information Technology for Management by Efraim Turban: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Detailed Description
The detailed description of the course is provided below as per the session wise distribution of the course.
Session Plan
Session Sub-topic and reading material
(each of
one hour)
1-5 Information Systems Need for Information Systems, Categories of
for Business Information Systems, Functional Information Systems
6-10 Information Computer Hardware, Computer Software, Computer
Technology Networks, Internet, Intranet
Infrastructure

1
11-15 Information Systems Systems planning, methods for system development,
Planning and Data Base Concepts, Distributed Databases, Emerging
Development Trends in Computing Cloud Computing, Grid
Computing
16-20 Management MIS and Information Resource management, MIS and
Information Systems Decision Support Systems, EDI, EFT, Extranets, E-
An Overview Commerce, M-Commerce, E-Governance
21-25 Computer Security Need For Security, Viruses, Worms, Security
Mechanisms, Firewall, Authentication, Security Policy
26-30 Computer Algorithms, Flow Charts, Machine Level Languages,
Programming High Level Languages, MS Word, MS Excel, MS
PowerPoint