This course is the fifth of seven in the Information Systems curriculum. The purpose of the course is to build on skills acquired in the earlier courses. It reviews the importance of information to management and the organization and information systems concepts within an office. These components are provided for each task area: behavioral objective, suggested teaching strategies, content, and summary. Topics covered include principles related to the importance of information, information resources management, and change; recognition, discussion, and research of proposed solutions and/or compromises for given problems in office automation; development and application of problem-solving techniques; information gathering to write and present oral and written reports for a variety of information systems problems and recognition of the value of teamwork; and application of problem-solving and project planning techniques. Appendixes include visuals (transparencies and other teacher materials), student materials (student handouts, work sheets, and exercise materials), evaluation (end-of-task and end-of-unit questions, test items, etc.), and references (including articles and an eight-page bibliography). (YLB)