Instructor Supplements: All supplemental material supporting any Baltzan & Phillips book is developed by the author team to ensure accurate, high-quality, and in-depth content. - INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL (IM): The IM includes suggestions for designing the course and presenting the material. Each IM is supported with classroom exercises, videos, activities, and discussion questions.
- INSTRUCTOR POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS: The author team has provided detailed teaching notes in the instructor's version of the PowerPoints. This offers classroom exercises, additional material, questions, videos, Internet resources, etc.
- IMAGE LIBRARY: Text figures and tables, as permission allows, are provided in a format by which they can be imported into PowerPoint for class lectures.
- INSTRUCTOR'S COURSE GUIDE: Choose from over 200 engaging classroom activities, discussion questions, and video clips that challenge students to apply the material they are learning. For example, if you are teaching systems development start off the class with the Skyscraper Activity where the students build a prototype that takes them through each phase of the systems development life cycle. The Post-It Notes on technology articles exercise clearly demonstrates that technology is everywhere in business. Turn any of the classroom activities into additional assignments and use the discussion questions for your online courses.
- COHESION CASE - The Broadway Cafe: The Broadway Café is a semester-long case that helps students tie all of the IT concepts in the text. It will also help them to tie all of the IT concepts together to see how they work to help a business operate. The flexibility of the case allows you to cover any number of topics in any order at any time during the semester. Throughout this course students will own and operate The Broadway Cafe taking advantage of business practices discussed in this text to increase profits, keep the business running, and bring the cafe into the 21st century. Upon completion of the case, students will have performed a vast array of activities including:
- Use technology to gain a competitive advantage
- Build an ebusiness strategy
- Create an online community for collaboration
- Deploy a wireless network for customers
- Use CRM to implement marketing campaigns and sales strategies
- Deal with different ethical and information security dilemmas
- Use Excel to perform business intelligence projects
- Project management activities for implementing solutions
- Use technology to gain competitive advantages
- Understand how technology is used throughout a business by all of the different functional area
This case is developed and operated by Baltzan and Phillips. Instructors may contact the authors directly at pbaltzan@baltzanandphillips.com to obtain the instructor's materials for the cohesion case. 100% Author Written TEST BANK AND EZ TEST ONLINE: Includes Word version of the Test Bank as well as the EZ Test files and software. To help instructors meet the requirements of AACSB, all questions have been tied to the Learning Outcomes in the text. VIDEOS: 20 videos accompany this text and cover topics from entrepreneurship to disaster recovery. Each of the videos that accompany the text is supported by detailed teaching notes on how to turn the videos into classroom exercises where your students can apply the knowledge they are learning after watching the videos. Video titles include: - Archtv2
- Cirque du Soleil
- Digital Domain
- Disney Imagineering
- Greater Chicago Food Depository
- Hot Topic
- Hurricane Katrina
- Lill 1154 Studio
- MTV Urge and MTV University
- Night Agency
- Online Job Search Industry
- Opportunities for Knowledge Workers
- Panera Bread
- Patagonia
- Raven Biotechnologies
- Rocketboom
- SolutionPeople
- Spawn.com
- State Farm Bank
- The Motley Fool
MISOURCE FOR 2007 (0077219953): Save lecture time and office hours by empowering students to refresh their Excel, Access, and PowerPoint skills on their own or learn them for the first time with this powerful tool that provides perfect simulation of the actual Office software. Access to MISource may be purchased through www.mhhe.com/misource. Alternatively, a registration code card (0077219953) may be bundled with the text. TEGRITY: Tegrity Campus allows you to record your lectures, saving you time and serving as a teaching assistant 24/7. There is no special hardware or IT required, and with a simple one click recording in your desktop tray you're ready to record. After selecting the icon, you now deliver your presentation as you always would. Click through your slides, visit websites, explore spreadsheets, show video, etc. and everything on your screen is captured along with the audio recording from your computer microphone or a microphone you may have clipped to the collar of your shirt. After your lecture, there is a simple upload into Tegrity or Connect for quick and easy student access. For more information about Tegrity, simply visit the following website http://tegritycampus.mhhe.com/, or contact your local MHHE book rep. |