This course prepares students for future managerial level appointments by introducing the important management and socio-technical concepts related to the strategic development, investment and use of Business IT systems in organizations and business enterprises. The course actively builds on the material introduced in INFS1001 Business Information Systems and INFS3024 IS Management, by focusing on integrated business systems thinking, particularly in the areas of organizational enterprise architecture and business process management. The course also covers enterprise systems design principles; the human dimension of enterprise systems; trust, security and ethics in the enterprise; enterprise resource, supply chain and customer relationship management systems; and, the importance of handling heterogeneous information systems in business environments. A practically oriented research and consulting report targeted at a contemporary real-world business problem is required as part of the assessment.

Upon successful completion of the requirements for this course, students will be able to:

• analyse, design and architect IT systems within small, medium and large corporate enterprises
• analyse, redesign and manage business processes within small, medium and large corporate enterprises
• manage, resource, finance and control corporate enterprise IT systems

• Student learning journal 1 20%
• Student learning journal 2 20%
• Final course Assessment 60%

Students taking this course are expected to commit at least 10 hours per week to completing the work. This will include 3 hours per week in class and at least 7 hours a week on average (including non-teaching weeks) on course reading, research, writing and assignment work.

To the level of INFS1001 Business Information Systems.

Assumed Knowledge: to the level of INFS1001 Business Information Systems.

Reynolds, G.W. (2010) IT for Managers, Cengage

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