This course gives students a thorough grounding in the management of technology in an organisational context, placing particular emphasis on the Chief Information Officer perspective. The unit material complements applied student knowledge with a theoretical technology management foundation. Topics are presented from a textbook and, where appropriate, relevant readings from the contemporary literature are used to present competing points of view. Topics include the information system in the organisation, information system planning, enterprise systems in context, systems to support operations and management, policy development and directive management, and technology economics. Students are introduced to the practical aspects of this area through a series of organisational case studies.

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

• Operationally manage and coordinate IT systems within small, medium and large corporate enterprises
• Develop, implement and coordinate IT systems strategies and plans within small, medium and large corporate enterprises
• Resource, finance, plan and control corporate IT systems

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

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.

INFS2024 Information Systems Analysis or COMP2400 Relational Databases.

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