MIS RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

 

• Quality of Sources
• List of IT Concepts
• Locate Definitions
• Search for Journal Articles
• Citing Sources
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• Lists of Companies & Organizations
  You may wish to investigate how information technology is used in a specific company. These lists will help you identify the best companies to work for.
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Quality of Sources:

Business Source Premier includes academic and scholarly journal articles, trade journals, magazines, newspaper articles, SWOT Analyses, company profiles, and Datamonitor reports. These sources have been approved by editors prior to publication and can be trusted as reliable sources.

LexisNexis Academic includes business and financial newspaper articles, US and international company financial information from government and private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. These sources have also been approved by editors prior to publication and can be trusted as reliable sources.

Yahoo!Search & Google retrieve sources which must be evaluated for authority of the authors; presence of strong cultural, ethnic, or other types of biases; and currency of information. Refer to the Search Engine Features Chart to find secrets from major search engines. Use the guidelines on Evaluating Sources: It's as Easy as A-B-C to validate the reliability of sources.

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IT Concepts:

Key IT concepts include business intelligence, knowledge management, predictive analysis, data mining, decision support systems, electronic commerce, mobile commerce, location commerce, location based services, project management, Gantt Chart, critical path analysis, intelligent agents, campus alert systems, customer relationship management, and security (data, property, employees/customers)

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Locate Definitions of IT Key Concepts

 

Locate definitions in Google

Locate definitions in Yahoo!Search

Enter the any of the searches listed below in Google: define:"business intelligence” define "business intelligence" define: "knowledge management" define "knowledge management” define:"critical path analysis" define datamining or define “data mining” define "predictive analysis" define:"mobile commerce" define "mobile commerce" define "location commerce" define "location based services" define:"project management" define "project management" define:"gantt chart" define "gantt chart" define:"critical path analysis" define "critical path analysis" define:"intelligent agents" define "intelligent agents" define "campus alert systems" define "security alert systems" define:"customer relationship management" define "customer relationship management" define: "data security" define "data security"

Enter any of the searches listed below in Yahoo!Search: define "business intelligence" define "knowledge management” define datamining or define “data mining” define "predictive analysis" define "mobile commerce" define "location commerce" define "location based services" define "project management" define "critical path analysis" define "intelligent agents" define "campus alert systems" define "security alert systems" define "customer relationship management" define "data security"

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Search for the following terms in Gale Virtual Reference Library: Instead of business intelligence, search for competitive intelligence knowledge management data mining data warehousing decision support systems electronic commerce project management intelligent agents customer relationship management data security

 

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Search for Journal Articles about IT Concepts

 

Business Source Premier	LexisNexis Academic News
Many of the articles you find will discuss companies or organizations that use the IT concepts you are researching. If you want to search for articles about specific companies, see the Lists of Companies for ideas.
Subject Searches Business Intelligence Knowledge Management Data Mining Decision Support Systems Mobile Commerce or Electronic Commerce Project Management or Critical Path Analysis or Gantt Charts Intelligent Agents (Computer Software)" or Neural Computers Emergency Communication Systems or Crisis Communication Customer Relationship Management Data Security Keyword Searches "Predictive Analysis" "Location Based Services" "Emergency Communication Systems" and (campus or education) "data security" and employees "data security" and customer* security and property and "information system*"	Keyword Searches Search in either General or News. You can adjust the date of your search with the "Specify date" option at the bottom of the search screen.  When the search results display, click Magazines & Journals in the left column under Sources by Category. Your search terms will be highlighted in red in the articles your retrieve. "business intelligence" "knowledge management" "data mining" "decision support systems" "mobile commerce" "electronic commerce" "project management" "location based services" "critical path analysis" "intelligent agents" "emergency communication systems" "crisis communication" "customer relationship management" data security property security "data security" AND employee! "data security" AND customer!
Education Resource Complete & ERIC	Education Full-Text
"Emergency Communication Systems" and (education or campus)	Crisis Management

 

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Use Lists to Identify Companies and Organizations:

If you don't already know the names of the companies you want to discuss in your paper, you may wish to use lists to find names of companies:

100 Best Companies to Work For
View Fortune's list of the top 100 best companies to work for.

2008 100 Best Companies
Browse Working Mother's list of the 100 Best Companies that accommodate the needs of mothers.

2008 Best Places to Launch a Career
This list of best places for college graduates to launch a careet outlines benefits, salaries, work environment, dress code, tranining programs, and criteria for raisies and evaluatiuons.

America's 200 Largest Charities
This is Forbes' "annual list of the country's 200 largest nonprofits."

Fortune 500 2008: Our Annual Ranking of America’s Largest Corporations
Users can sort this list by companies, employers, states, cities, losers (companies that are losing money), industries, companies with Women CEOs, and climbers (companies that are rapidly climbing in status on the list).

Inc. 5000: The Fastest Growing Private Companies in America
This site provides lists of private companies by revenue, those run by women, those intending to go public, those run by minorities, by metro region, and by industry.

Nonprofit Organizations - Rankings
These articles from the Academic OneFile database discuss rankings of nonprofit organizations.

 

 

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