Project Management - Detailed Syllabus

Project Management is one of the subjects for semester 6 of bscit and following is the detailed syllabus for the subject :

i) Project & Project management. The project, Project Management, Types of project, Contractual Arrangements.
(1) Readings :
Basic Project Management. There are Four Types. & Making Project Management Work.

ii) The Nature of Project Management, Management principle, Some Factors in Project Management, The Project Manager. Factors for Project Success and Failure.
(1) Readings :
The New Managerial work & Where does Project Cost Really Go Wrong? What it takes to be A Good Project Manager

iii) Organizational Strucctures, The Project Organization, The Functional Organization, The Matrix organization, Designing an Organization, Building the Team, Leadership.
(1) Readings :
Selection of the Team. & Matrix management : Contradiction and Insights.

iv) Project Administration : Project Authority & Project Control, Principles of Project Administration., TQM.
(1) Readings :
Skunk Works - Management Style - It's No Secret. & Executive Focus on Quality

v) Defining and Financing the Project. How Project Evolve - the Client Brief., Financing the Project. Sources of Finance and Cash Flow
(1) Readings :
(a) Structural Scale Models : Beyond The Computer. Clear Project Definition is Crucial. Construction Cost estimating in the Design Process. Meeting the Infrastructure Challenge.
(b) Three Perceptions of Project Cost - Cost Is More than A Four-Letter World.

vi) Feasibility Studies and Approvals, Conducting a feasibility Study, the regulations controlling projects, decision making, economic analysis.
(1) Readings :
(a) Project management and enviornmental issues.
(b) Obstacles encountered by a new industrial development.
(c) enviornmental planning and engineering decisions.
(d) intellectual sources of the ideas of "acceptable risk" in public policy.
(e) Speaking of risk. Humble decision making. Finding a way to measure technology's benefits. Justification Techniques for advanced manufacturing Technologies.

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Strategic IT Management - Detailed Syllabus

Strategic IT Management is one of the elective subjects for semester 6 of bscit and following is the detailed syllabus for the subject :

i) Changing Paradigm and Strategic Leaning

ii) Changing face of Strategic Thinking : Strategic Management Paradigm, Emergent strategy, Strategic flexibility.
(1) Readings : Getting off the Treadmill. & Exploring Framework of Strategic Flexibility & Managing for Strategic Flexibility.
Cases : The Global Computer Industry and APPLE.

iii) Changing Strategic Situation : paradoxes, complexity , chaos, turbulence, and uncertainty.
(1) Readings : Crafting Strategy in New Environment. & In search of New Strategy Paradigms- A Survey of Emerging Thoughts.
With Case study.

iv)Special models and tools of strategic management. Strategy making as a journey.
(1)Readings :Meta-strategy : The new s Strategic Management. & The challenge : Turning Turmoil into Customer Centered Growth.& The Journey of Strategy
Making. With Case study

v) Building Core Competence and Strategic Capability, Culture and stake-holder expectation.
(1) Readings : Competence based Strategic Management. Cases : Indian Cases on Core Competence.

vi) Globalization Strategy, Strategy of Transnational Corporations.
(1) Readings : Do you really have a global strategy? & Globol Strategy in a World of Nations.
(2) Presentations : Global Strategy of Select Corporations Industries.

vii) Strategy Evolution and Alliances.

viii) Strategic Intent and Architecture. With Case study
ix) Strategic, Alliances and Joint Ventures. Readings : The Global Logic of Strategic Alliances & Collaborate with Your Competitors and win Presentations :
Analysis of Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures.

x) Mergers and Acquisitions. Presentations : Analysis on mergers and Acquisitions.

xi) Screening Strategic Options. Cases : Swiss Air Alliances With Case study

xii) Comparative Strategies and Strategic profile of Indian Business Houses.
(1) Readings : Are Private Basic Telecom Projects Viable in India? Presentations : Entry in market from various Regions : US/Europe/Japan/SE ASIA.

xiii) Strategy Implementation and Change Management. Corporate Restructuring.
(1) Cases : ABB Operationalizing Strategy : Policies, Budgets, Support Systems, and Rewards.
(2) Cases : ALIP : Entering Indian Market. Issues of culture and leadership in strategy implementation, Corporate Governance. With Case study

xiv) Managing Strategic Change and Transformation.

xv) Functional Strategies/Tactics : Marketing, Finance, HR, R&D.

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Internet Technologies - Detailed Syllabus

Internet Technologies is one of the subjects for semester 6 of bscit and following is the detailed syllabus for the subject :

1) Basic Networking :
i) Network Protocols :
a) TCP / IP (Transmission Control / Internet protocol)
b) ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
c) RARP (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol)
d) RIP (Roulting Information Protocol)
e) OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) Protocol
f) BGP (Brodre Gateway Prptocol)

2) Introduction to Network Programming
i) Socket Programming (using TCP and UDP socket)
ii) RMI
a) Introduction to Distributed Computing with RMI
b) RMI Architecture
c) Naming remote Object
d) Using RMI : Interfaces, Implementations, Stub, Skeleton, host Server Client, Running RMI Systems
e) Parameters in RMI : Primitive, Object, Remote Object
f) RMI Client-side Callbacks
g) Distributing & Installing RMI Software

iii) Introduction to CORBA
a) What is CORBA?
b) CORBA Architecture
c) Comparison between RMI and CORBA

3) Introduction to Wireless LAN
i) How does WLAN work?
ii) WLAN setups (Ad-hoc, infracture LAN)
iii) Use of WLAN
iv) Benefits of WLAN
v) Restrictions and Problem with WLAN

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Customer Relations Management (CRM) - Detailed Syllabus

Customer Relations Management (CRM) is one of the subjects for semester 6 of bscit and following is the detailed syllabus for the subject :

1) Introduction to CRM : what is a customer? How do we define CRM? CRM technology, CRM technology components, customer life style, customer interaction.

2) Introduction to eCRM : difference between CRM & eCRM, features of eCRM.

3) Sales Force Automation(SFA) : definition & need of SFA, barriers to successful SFA, SFA:funtionality, technological aspect of SFA: data synchronization, flexibility & performance, reporting tools.

4) Enterprise Marketing automation (EMA) : components of EMA, marketing camping, camping, planning & management, business analytic tools. ,EMA components ( promotions ,events , loyalty & retention programs), response management.

5) Call Centers Mean Customer Interaction : the functionality, technological implementation, what is ACD (automatic call distribution), IVR (interactive voice response), CTI (computer telephony integration), web enabling the call center, automated intelligent call routing, logging
& monitoring.

6) Implementing CRM : pre implemention, kick off meeting, requirements gathering, prototyping & detailed proposal generation, development of customization, Power User Beta Test & Data import, training, roll out & system hand off, ongoing support. system optimization, follow up.

7) Introduction to ASP (application service provider);who are ASP's?, their role & fuction, advantage & disadvantage of implementing ASP.

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