1. 1.1 © 2007 by Dr. Minder Chen Special Topics in Information Management Minder Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management School of Management, George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 Email: mchen@gmu.edu Web site: http://mason.gmu.edu/~mchen/mchen@gmu.eduhttp://mason.gmu.edu/~mchen/

2. 1.2 © 2007 by Dr. Minder Chen IT-Enabled Business Process Reengineering and Change Management  BPR Definition  BPR Case Studies  BPR Lifecycle  Using IDEF0 for Process Modeling  Change Management Special Topics in Information Management Day 1

3. 1.3 © 2007 by Dr. Minder Chen Group Decision Support Systems and Virtual Teams  Challenges to Virtual Teamwork  GDSS Technologies and Evolution  Design of a Web-based GDSS: TeamSpirits  Demonstration of TeamSpirits  Empirical Studies Special Topics in Information Management Day 2

4. 1.4 © 2007 by Dr. Minder Chen UML: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design  Object-oriented concepts  UML 2.0 Diagrams  A Case Study  Adoption and Adaptation of UML Special Topics in Information Management Day 3

5. 1.5 © 2007 by Dr. Minder Chen Evolution of Web Technologies and ASP.NET 2.0  Evolution of Web technologies  What's news in ASP.NET 1.x  What's news in ASP.NET 2.0  Building 3-tier Web Applications  AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Special Topics in Information Management Day 4

6. 1.6 © 2007 by Dr. Minder Chen Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures  Web Services introduction  Web services implementation using.NET  Web services standards stacks  Adoption of Web services  Service-Oriented Architecture Special Topics in Information Management Day 5

7. 1.7 © 2007 by Dr. Minder Chen Electronic Commerce Trends and Web 2.0  Electronic commerce evolution  Electronic commerce business models  Web 2.0 sample Web sites  Web 2.0 related technologies and business models Special Topics in Information Management Day 6