This course builds on the material introduced in INFS7040 Electronic Commerce for Managers by covering the strategic architecting, development and use of Business IT systems and processes in organisations and business enterprises. Topical issues such as the organizational enterprise architecture and business process management implications raised by e-commerce/e-business/e-government, trust in the enterprise environment, supply chain and customer relationship management systems, legacy information systems integration, data and content management, business analysis, requirements engineering and systems realisation and managerial implementation (including executive judgement) are also covered in the course. An in-depth course project is required as part of the assessment.

Upon completion of this course you should be able to:

• the interactions of organizations with their external business partners, especially the flows of
• resources between the organizations and their partners
• transaction cycles in organizations, and the resource flows that connect the transaction cycles to
• form a value chain
• conceptual modeling constructs in general and the constructs of the ResourcesEventsAgents
• Enterprise Ontology in particular
• procedures for converting conceptual models into logical relational models and then into physical
• relational databases using Microsoft Access
• information retrieval/querying a relational database, particularly Microsoft Access
• risks and controls associated with business processes and enterprise software systems

• Reflective Learning Journal 1  25%
• Reflective Learning Journal 2  25%
• Course Project  50%

      Total: 100%

All components of the above assessment are compulsory and must be submitted. You must achieve at least 50% for the final examination component to be eligible for an automatic pass grade in this course.

3 hours per week plus at least 7 hours private study time.

At least an average of 65% (or equivalent) in the final two years of an Australian undergraduate degree

For further information please refer to the Course Website