1. 1 Terminology General concept of the MIS disciplineMIS discipline Definitions ( p25-27 of paper from EJIS, refer to my website for copy ) of: –IT –IM –IS –MIS (to p2) (to p3)

2. 2 SOCIOLOGY POLITICAL SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTERSCIENCE OPERATIONSRESEARCH MANAGEMENTSCIENCE TECHNICAL APPROACHES MIS Discipline MIS BEHAVIORAL APPROACHES (to p1)

3. 3 Their Relationships? Information Technology IS/MIS IS/MIS * Information Management Figure 3 of handout *IS = MIS (to p4)

4. 4 Question: –Which terminology do you think is a better one when writing a paper labeling an academic program labeling a department in industry (to p5) (to p6) (to p11)

5. 5 writing a paper –it very much depends on the nature of the literature … however, the terms of IS and IT will still be the top list of all! –Now, perhaps the combination of above with Internet or e-trading become a main substitution! (why?!) (to p4)

6. 6 labeling an academic program We examining this question from the prospective of academic programs in HK (to p7)

7. 7 Samples of Relevant academic programs in HK# # Based on a survey conducted in the year of 1991 (to p8)

8. 8 From Academic programs in HK How to differential them? Now, let us examine these programs based on the subject contents of knowledge they designed: –Hardware –Software –Management (to p9)

9. 9 Weighting of computer- application programs in HK (to p10)

10. 10 Academic programs Changing trends? –Most revolution has based on the adoption of Internet approach and alters their titles as: E-commerce/E-business Internet networking E-supply chains (a new dimension of applied IT) (to p4)

11. 11 From Industry jobs Prior to Y2K, the following titles are commonly adopted: EDP, DP, MIS, IT now? Networking, Internet, MIS, IT, Social medial IT Auditing (of course, it is still very much depended on the nature of the firm and their business, for instant –ITSC for our U –IT and Telecomm for the Dow Corning )