Business Information Systems

It would be fantastic, if you could contribute other resources to this course that you found yourself! Write a comment on this page including the necessary information (see below).

This list of references and resources is also how you should reference the material that you used to create own content on your blogs. With a minor alteration (namely, not to quote complete URIs, but instead only the home page), this is the Harvard Citation Style – I recommend this also for your dissertation!

All books on blog are part of the reference library for this course and you can borrow them from me. Selected articles marked (R) are also part of the printed course reader every student will receive in week 2.

Articles
Birkenkrahe M (2002) How Large Multi-Nationals Manage Their Knowledge, in: University of Auckland Business Review, Vol 4 No 2, pp. 11-15. R

Birkenkrahe M and Mundt M (2009) From crisis to creativity: undergraduates craft their own online learning modules, to appear in: Int. J. of Innovation in Education, Inderscience publishers. This recent article describes two courses like this one where students had to use the ILIAS system instead of being allowed to create their own blogs. You’ll be grateful!) R

Davenport, T. H. (2005) The coming commoditization of process, in: Harvard Business Review, vol 83 no 6. (A classic of BPM literature, in this article Davenport, who is also a household name for knowledge management, explains how process standardization is something to look out for. Developments over the past few years seem to validate his guesses. Contains a number of useful references, too.) R

Prensky M (2001) Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, in: One the Horizon, Vol 9 No 5 – this might be interesting for you Gen Y people, because you’re the natives in this world of ours, while your friendly lecturer is just an old immigrant…

Books
Beaulieu A (2005) Learning SQL, Cambridge, MA: O’Reilly.

Beighley L (2007) HeadFirst SQL, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly. (This is “a learning experience and not a book” from HeadFirst Labs – highly recommended! I own this book and you are welcome to take a look.)

Beighley L and Morrison M (2008) HeadFirst PHP & MySQL, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly. (This is “a learning experience and not a book” from HeadFirst Labs – highly recommended! I own this book and you are welcome to take a look.)

Birkerts S (2009) Resisting the Kindle, Atlantic Monthly, online at: theAtlantic.com 02/03/2009 [access 01/05/2009]

Grabot B, Mayère A and Bazet I (eds.) (2008) ERP Systems and Organisational Change, in: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing, New York: Springer.

Laudon K C and Laudon J P (2007) Essentials of Business Information Systems, New York: Prentice Hall.

McNulty S (2009) Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read, Berkely: Peachpit.

Miles R and Hamilton K (2006) Learning UML 2.0, Cambridge, MA: O’Reilly.

Morville, P. and Rosenfeld, L. (2006) Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Cambridge, MA: O’Reilly.

Mostafa J (2008) MySQL Tutorial, online at: youtube.com [access: 09/04/2009]

Richardson W (2009) Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Robson E and Freeman E (2005) Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, Sebastopol: O’Reilly. - This is “a learning experience and not a book” from HeadFirst Labs – highly recommended! I own this book and you are welcome to take a look.

Russell A and Echchaibi N (eds.) (2009) International Blogging, New York: Peter Lang.

Sabin-Wilson L (2009) WordPress for Dummies, Indianapolis: Wiley.

Silver T B (2008) WordPress Theme Design, Birmingham: Packt.

Online
Birkenkrahe M (2009) Using ILIAS in class, online at: ilias.hwr-berlin.de, 13/02/2009 [access 21/03/2009]

Braun D, Sivils J, Shapiro A and Verstegh J (2000) Unified Modeling Language (UML) Tutorial, online at: atlas.kennesaw.edu [access 09/04/2009]

Brogan C (2009) 23 Elements of Shareable Blog Posts, online at: www.chrisbrogan.com [access 05/10/2009] - a very useful overview on blogs that most people – including your likely readers, and your colleagues – would like to read. Most of these provide a useful checklist for your content. R

Charlie Rose Show, Interview with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on the Kindle, online at: www.charlierose.com, 19/11/2007 [access 17/03/2009]

Charlie Rose Show, Interview w/CEO Reid Hoffmann, online at: www.charlierose.com, 09/03/2009 [access 17/03/2009]

Commoncraft.com (2007) Blogs in plain English, online at: www.youtube.com, 29/11/2007 [access 17/03/2009]

Cragsystems (2004) A UML Tutorial Introduction, online at: cragsystems.co.uk [access: 09/04/2009]

Davenport (2005) The Benefits of Business Process Standards, online at: hbswk.hbs.edu, 07/11/2005 [access: 14/05/2009] - the HBR article of the same year by this author is a seminal description of the importance of business process standards. R

Doodle: Online appointments and quick polls, online at: doodle.com [access: 21/05/2009]

Drakos N (2009) Enterprise 2.0: Next Generation Portals and Content Management, online at: itbriefingcenter.com [access: 09/04/2009]

Future @ Training Blog, “How to use WordPress.com to Create a Simple Blog“, online at: trainingweekend2009.wordpress.com [access: 05/10/2009]

Google Docs: Online collaboration, online at: docs.google.com [access: 21/05/2009]

Green IT: Green IT news, reviews, blogs and resources on virtualisation, recycling, greenpeace, charities, carbon footprint, waste, environmental awareness, online at: techworld.com/green-it/ [access 28/04/2009]

Hersman E (2009) How texting and GoogleMaps helped Kenyans survive crisis, online at: ted.com, 02/2009 [access 29/04/2009] – TED talk about how a mash-up application of texting and google maps helped prevent violence in Kenya and the next big thing – controlling the information overflow.

Hourihan M (2002) “What we are doing when we blog”, online at: oreillynet.com, 06/2009 [access 05/10/2009] – short article from the early blogging days that does a good job dissecting the different parts (and meanings) of a blog. R

Hutcheon S (2009) Teaching Twitter could become a Class Act, online at: www.smh.com.au (Sydney Morning Herald), 26/03/2009 [access 26/03/09] – it will be interesting to compare this enthusiastic article to the social media reality one year later…

Knowledge@Wharton: Social Media for Social Causes: Alex Brown’s Passion for the Welfare of Horses, online at: knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu, 29/04/2009 [access 30/04/2009] - interview with an entrepreneur who uses a number of social media/web 2.0 tools for the welfare of horses.

Laudon K and Laudon J (2009) Essentials of Management Information Systems, 8/E, Prentice-Hall, Companion Website online at: www.pearsonhighered.com/laudon/ [access 22/02/2009] - We will use a number of texts and tests from this textbook’s companion website. R

Marquis H (2009) The Business of IT (IT from the CFO’s point of view), online at: globalknowledge.com [access 24/02/2009]

Marriott B (2008) How Do I Blog, online at: blogs.marriott.com, 24/07/2008 [access 21/03/2009]

McDermott, B. and Chaudhuri, S. (2008) SAP’s Bill McDermott: The Future of Enterprise Software, online at: knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu, 11/06/2008 [access: 17/03/2009]

Katharine Mieszkowski K (2006) I make $1.45 a week and I love it, online at: salon.com 24/07/2006 [access 29/04/2009]

Neffe, Jürgen (2009) Kulturwandel: Es war einmal, online at: zeit.de, 23/04/2009 [access 28/04/2009]

Ochman B L (2009) Debunking Six Social Media Myths, online at: businessweek.com, 29/02/2009 [access: 09/04/2009]

OpenID: A single digital identity across the internet, online at: openid.net [access: 21/05/2009]

Open Office: Office tool, online at: openoffice.org [access: 21/05/2009]

O’Reilly T (2005) What is Web 2.0?, online at: oreillynet.com, 30/09/2005 [access 18/03/2009] – seminal article by publisher O’Reilly who coined the term “Web 2.0″. R

Oryx BPMN: Oryx BPMN modeling tool, Uni Potsdam and Hasso-Plattner-Institut, online at: bpt.hpi.uni-potsdam.de [access; 09/04/2009]

Osterwalder, Alex (2005) What is a business model?, online at: business-model-design.blogspot.com, 05/11/2005 [access 28/04/2009]

Rappa M (2009) Managing the Digital Enterprise, online at: digitalenterprise.org [access 18/03/2009]

Rappa M (2009) Business Models on the Web, online at: digitalenterprise.org [access 28/04/2009]

RTM: Remember the Milk, online task manager, online at: rememberthemilk.com [access 21/05/2009]

Second Life: Virtual Second Life, online at: secondlife.com [access: 21/05/2009]

Sierra K (2007): Creating passionate users, online at: headrush.typepad.com/ [access: 18/06/2009]

Skype: Online conferencing, online at: skype.com/intl/de/ [access: 21/05/2009]

Spear B (2008) Why blog and how?, online at: brucespear.com, 07/12/2008 [access 21/02/2009]

Spear B (2009) Deep Blogging, online at: brucespear.com, 21/01/2009 [access 21/02/2009]

Suarez L (2009) The Business Value of Social Software, online at: it.toolbox.com, 17/03/2009 [access 10/03/2009]

Trunk P (2009) Blogs without topic are a waste of time, online at: Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist, http://blog.penelopetrunk.com [access 19/10/2009]

TinyUrl: Converts long URLs into short ones (permanently), online at: tinyurl.com/ [access: 21/05/2009]

Web Projects: Web Project Rubric, online at: literacytech.org, [access 15/04/2009]

Wesch Mike (2007) The machine is Us/Ing us, online at: youtube.com [access: 21/05/2009]

White S A (2006) Introduction to BPMN, online at: bpmn.org, 16/10/2006 [access 23/03/2009]

Wikiproject (2007-2008) Course material from previous terms, online at: wiki.birkenkrahe.com [access 21/03/2009]

Wizig: Tele-lecturing, online at: wiziq.com [access: 21/05/2009]

Worldmapper: A collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest, online at: worldmapper.org/ [access 28/04/2009]

W3schools – free web building tutorials including PHP, HTML, SQP, Java etc., at: w3schools.com [access 21/03/2009]

Photographs
Photographs taken from Arthur B. Barach (1962) 1975: And the Changes to Come, New York: Harper and Row. Scanned by bostworld. Found on greenchamaleon. When you click on an image, the original image opens which comes with text from the book by Barach – how he imagined the year 1975 in the year 1962. It’s a hoot.

Quotes
The subtitle of the blog (main page) was taken from a talk by Sir Ken Robinson “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” – great talk (20 min.) – something to watch!