IS STRATEGY, MANAGEMENT AND ACQUISITION

Course Description

This course provides comprehensive treatment of current trends and management issues associated with information systems within organizations. The course is focused on developing an intellectual framework that will allow leaders of organizations to critically assess existing IS infrastructures and emerging technologies as well as how these enabling technologies might affect organizational strategy. After a successful completion of this course, students will be able to understand the importance of information systems in an organization, and the role they play in the various functional areas of a business, identify the importance of aligning the information systems strategy with the overall organizational strategy, and ensuring the information technology assets which support the business activities and objectives.

IS STRATEGY, MANAGEMENT AND ACQUISITION

Evaluation Tools (Active Term)

Course outcomes

1. 01 Apply information to the needs of different industries and areas
2. 02 Analyze how strategic decisions are made con-cerning acquiring IS resources and capabilities including the ability to evaluate the different sourc-ing options
3. 03 Evaluate the issues and challenges associated with successfully and unsuccessfully incorporating IS into a firm.
4. 04 Learn the fundamental concepts associated with high-level IS infrastructure and the systems that support the operational, administrative, and strategic needs of an organization
5. 05 Develop an intellectual framework to critically as-sess IS infrastructures and emerging technologies, and how these enabling technologies might affect organizational strateg

Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 Managing and Using Information SystemsA Strategic Approach, 4th edition(2010) by Keri E. Pearlson and Carol S. Saunsers
2. 02 Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm 12 edition BY Kenneth C. and Jane P. Laudon

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 Describe the strategic role of Information Systems in modern organizations. SOLO 3
2. L02 Explain the Information Systems Strategy Triangle and its managerial implications. SOLO 4
3. L03 Analyze how firms use information resources to gain competitive advantage. SOLO 4
4. L04 Evaluate the organizational impacts of implementing Information Systems. SOLO 5
5. L05 Identify how Information Technology influences work design and structure. SOLO 2
6. L06 Assess changes in business processes driven by Information Systems. SOLO 5
7. L07 Apply strategic frameworks to real-world IS management case studies. SOLO 4
8. L08 Demonstrate effective use of IT for business process innovation. SOLO 4
9. L09 Discuss ethical concerns related to privacy, security, and information use. SOLO 5
10. L10 Report and present IS project findings clearly and professionally. SOLO 3

Program Outcomes

1. P01 Apply data science principles and techniques to challenges in real life situations, and effectively communicate their solutions.
2. P02 Identify and implement data analysis methodologies based on theoretical ideas, ethical code, and in-depth knowledge of the underlying data.
3. P03 Analyze the guiding concepts and assessment procedures for information analysis in real-life applications.
4. P04 Design and apply relevant data analysis models to find obscure solutions to business-related problems.
5. P05 Utilize modern computing techniques to handle real-world problems characterized by massive amounts of data, such as parallel and distributed computing and machine learning.
6. P06 Configure and administer the software tools required to efficiently produce usable information from any size of structured and unstructured datasets.
7. P07 Administer or manage data science tools and techniques to organize and complete projects aimed at gaining useful insight from complex data.
8. P08 Think critically and imaginatively, conceiving real-world issues from several angles, and work well in a variety of teams to solve issues cooperatively.
9. P09 Be able to effectively integrate data‐based solutions into the user environment and help non-technical professionals in exploring, visualizing, and using these solutions
10. P10 Understand their obligations under professional and ethical standards in relation to matters like data ownership and citation, data security and sensitivity and the privacy implications of data analysis.

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