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In article <90003.133030UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>I trying to collect a broad array of ideas that cover the topic of
>Office Information Systems of the near future.  I am interested in current
>systems that corporations use, or that can be purchased from vendors, but
>I am more interested in ideas which lean toward
>the future.  I am building a sysllabus for an MBA seminar for non-specialists.

Lee, 

	Here is something which, although not quite what you're looking for,
might help you.  I would be interested in getting a copy of your syllabus 
when it takes a final shape.

	Last year I taught a course on OIS which is taken by senior MIS 
students here at Ohio State.   The course can also be taken be MBAs as an 
elective, although no MBAs did when I tought it.   This course was designed 
to complement other parts of our curriculum, so your mileage may vary.  
Our MIS program is more technical than average.  So, in this course as well as 
others we tried to balance technical issues with managerial concerns.   The 
rationale is that talking about managerial issues would sometimes be 
vacuous without adequate technical background knowledge.

	Despite the increasing number of available books, none of the ones
I examined were satisfactory.  Most were targeted towards practitioners and
written at a level that would insult the intelligence of our senior IS 
students.  Lacking a text book, I prepared a packet of readings consisting
of a number of handouts and eighteen papers on a variety of OIS issues.   

	The handouts included among others some background material on Data 
Management and Decision Support Systems.  A listing of the outside
papers is shown below in the order in which they were examined.   I do plan
to revise the list by adding some papers and dropping others while keeping
the topics coverage at about the same level.   If your audience is going
to consist entirely of MBA students, you almost have to do away with the
technical papers in the list.

OIS: A Framework for Study

(1)  Galbraith, Jay R., "Organization Design: An Information
     Processing View," Interfaces 4:3, May 1974.

(2)  Gorry, G. Anthony, and  Michael  S.  Scott  Morton,  "A
     Framework  for  Management  Information Systems," Sloan
     Management Review, Fall 1971, pp. 55-70.

(3)  Ellis, Clarence A., and Gary J. Nutt, "Office  Informa-
     tion  Systems  and Computer Science," Computing Surveys
     12:1, March 1980, pp. 27-60.


Networking and Cryptosystems

(4)  Lefkon, Dick, "A LAN  Primer,"  Byte,  July  1987,  pp.
     147-154.

(5)  Tanenbaum, Andrew S.,  "Network  Protocols,"  Computing
     Surveys 13:4, December 1981, pp. 453-489.

(6)  Rivest, R. L., A. Shamir, and L. Adleman, "A Method for
     Obtaining  Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosys-
     tems," Communications of the ACM 21:2,  February  1978,
     pp. 120-126.


OIS Modeling

(7)  Bailey, A. D., J. H. Gerlach, and A. B. Whinston,  "OIS
     Modeling  for  Efficiency  and Productivity," in Office
     Systems: Technology and Organization, Reston Publishing
     Company, Reston, Virginia, 1985.


Languages for Office Automation

(8)  Hammer, M., W. G. Howe, V. J. Kruskal, and  I.  Wladaw-
     sky,  "A  Very High Level Programming Language for Data
     Processing Applications,"  Communications  of  the  ACM
     20:11, November 1977, pp. 832-840.

(9)  Shu, N.C., V.Y. Lum, F.C. Tung, C.L. Chang, "Specifica-
     tion  of  Forms  Processing and Business Procedures for
     Office  Automation,"  IEEE  Transactions  on   Software
     Engineering SE-8:5, September 1982, pp. 499-512.

(10) Whang, K.Y., et. al., "Office-by-Example: An Integrated
     Office  System  and Database Manager," ACM Transactions
     on Office Information Systems 5:4,  October  1987,  pp.
     393-427.


Message and Document Processing

(11) Tsichritzis, D., "Integrating  Data  Base  and  Message
     Systems," pp. 356-362.

(12) Conklin, Jeff, "Hypertext: An Introduction and Survey,"
     IEEE Computer 20:9, September 1987, pp. 17-41.


Group Decision Support Systems

(13) Kraemer, K. L., and J. L. King, "Computer-Based Systems
     for  Cooperative  Work and Group Decision Making," Com-
     puting Surveys 20:2, June 1988, pp. 115-146.

Management of OIS

(14) The Rocky Road to  Office  Automation,  in  Information
     Systems Management in Practice, eds. Spargue and McNur-
     lin.

(15) Meyer, N. Dean., The Office Automation Cookbook: Mange-
     ment  Strategies  for Getting Office Automation Moving,
     Sloan Management Review, Winter 1983, pp. 51-60.

(16) Keen, Peter G.W., and L. A. Woodman, "What to  do  with
     all  those micros?" Harvard Business Review, September-
     October 1984, pp. 142-150.


Implications of OIS

(17) Irving, R. H., C. A. Higgins, and F. R. Safayeni, "Com-
     puter  Performance  Monitoring Systems: Use and Abuse,"
     Communications of the ACM 29:8, August 1986,  pp.  794-
     801.

(18) Hirschheim, R. A., The Effect of A Priori Views on  the
     Social  Implications  of  Computing: The Case of Office
     Automation, Computing  Surveys  18:2,  June  1986,  pp.
     166-195.


Drop me a note, if you need more information.

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>lee sailer

Waleed A. Muhanna

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