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 | Introduction | 
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 | 1 |  |  |  | Course Introduction |  |  |  |  | 
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 | Role of the Organization in IT | 
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 | 2 |  |  |  | Should the General Manager Care to Learn IT? |  |  |  |  | 
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 | Positioning and IT | 
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 | 3 |  |  |  | Re-Positioning the Value Proposition Through IT |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 4 |  |  |  | Aligning Programs and Processes The MIT View of the Firm |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 5 |  |  |  | Electronic Markets and Supply Change Management |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 6 |  |  |  | Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture (I): "Under the Hood" of a Commercial Website |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 7 |  |  |  | Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture (II): Transaction Streams |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 8 |  |  |  | A View Into the Future: Web Technologies Basics and the Semantic Web |  |  |  | Hand out Tech Assignment | 
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 | IT-Enabled Operational Effectiveness | 
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 | 9 |  |  |  | SAP in Manufacturing What Should the CEO Know About ERPs? |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 10 |  |  |  | Aligning IT and the Organization: Role of Artificial Intelligence and Other Forecasting Technologies |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 11 |  |  |  | The Central Nervous System of Automated Virtual Manufacturing Plants
  Guest Speaker: Jim Miller, VP Supply Chain & Logistics, Cisco Systems, Inc.
  http://www.cisco.com |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 12 |  |  |  | Linking Process Modeling Architecture with ERP The Case of American Meter Company, ARIS and SAP
  Guest Lecture: Ed Brady, IT Director, American Meter Company
  http://www.americanmeter.com |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 13 |  |  |  | The Little-man Computer |  |  |  | Hand out SQL/LMC Assignment | 
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 | 14 |  |  |  | IT and Productivity Cost Reduction of IT Automation Within Intel Manufacturing Plants
  Guest Speaker: Stanley Stanzyk, Automation Manager in Charge of Computing Cost Reduction. Intel Corp.
  http://www.intel.com |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 15 |  |  |  | Embedded Intelligence, RFIDs and the Auto-ID Initiative
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Sanjay E. Sarma, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Co-Founder and Research Director of the Auto-ID Center at MIT |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 16 |  |  |  | Introduction to Databases, Data Modeling and XML |  |  |  |  | 
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 | IT Implementation and Delivery | 
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 | 17 |  |  |  | Role of Senior Management in the Implementation Process The Case of Handheld Devices |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 18 |  |  |  | Designing an Industry-wide Information Architecture (III): Computer Security/Cryptography |  |  |  | SQL/LMC Assignment Due | 
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 | 19 |  |  |  | Implementing Computer Vision Solutions in Manufacturing
  Guest Speaker: Pam Lipson, Founder / CEO, Imagen Inc. |  |  |  | Technology Assignment Due | 
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 | 20 |  |  |  | Steel Manufacturing and Cross-Company Processes Delivering an Industry-wide IT Solution
  Guest Speaker: Richard Rowe, Founder of RoweCom |  |  |  |  | 
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 | Conclusion: The Future of IT, Manufacturing, and You | 
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 | 21 |  |  |  | Artificial Intelligence and the Robots of the Future
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Rodney Brooks Director, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  http://www.ai.mit.edu/ |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 22 |  |  |  | Strategic Framing: Broadband Technologies and the Information Value-chain |  |  |  | Take Home Final Given out with Agenda | 
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 | 23 |  |  |  | What Should the CEO Know About Manufacturing? Wireless Technologies and 3G
  Guest Speaker: Lars-Göran Hansson, Manufacturing Processes, Ericsson
  http://www.ericsson.com |  |  |  |  | 
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 | 24 |  |  |  | Course Closure |  |  |  | Take Home Final Due | 
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