Ghassan Alkadi

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Course Objectives:

·        The students will understand the need for and appreciate the benefits of information gathering, storage, retrieval and transmission for business and industry.  The students will understand that information is the life-blood of industry and it must be handled accordingly

·        The students will understand the differing types of information transfer (human-human, human-computer, computer-human, computer-computer) and the requirements necessary for effective transmission among each, for both local and at-a-distance communication.  The students will learn about different system and network configurations to satisfy these differing communication needs.

·        The students will understand the need for organizing and storing information and will learn the fundamentals of defining databases and of retrieving data to satisfy (a) immediate inquiries, (b) periodic summaries, (c) forecasting to support future plans, and (d) exploratory inquiries that support investigation or new possibilities.

·        The students will understand the need for and methods for modeling information    flow throughout an enterprise, and modeling processes that generate and consume information.  The students will become proficient with various tools used to model different aspects of an enterprise.  For example, students may be asked to create a model for client questions.  The model would be expected to be integrated into all aspects of the business including human resources, production and planning.