Information Systems Management

Course Structure

1. [\'IT strategy: We explore the theoretical and practical aspects of IS/IT strategy in the context of a global business environment. A robust IS/IT strategy is constructed as part of the strategic business planning cycle; we will consider the drivers, critical success factors and barriers to project management. You\\x92ll be introduced to the tools and techniques associated with constructing and implementing an IS/IT strategy and for evaluative decision-making.\', \'Innovation and knowledge management: Innovation is a key enabler for the success and growth of companies, whether this is through technological innovation or business model innovation. Therefore, you will be encouraged to explore the broad context of innovation and its impact on businesses, but with focus on areas relevant to technology businesses. We will examine different models of change management and their relevancy and efficacy within organisations.\', \'Enterprise Systems:\\xa0Examines the organisational, strategic and implementation issues surrounding the introduction of an enterprise wide system into an organisation. You will learn how to develop a customised Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) based system based on specific organisational requirements.\', "Big Data Leverage:\\xa0Big data normally grows beyond the capabilities of a Data Warehouse (DW), although some of the techniques of a DW can be applied to it. Analysing big data can reveal new insights for a business and its key decision makers that can have a significant impact on its performance. We provide an overview of big data, as well as the state and practice of big data analytics. Cutting-edge techniques will be taught which will enable business to sift through large quantities of data to discover patterns, relationships, associations, factors and clusters. We will focus on \'web-intelligence\' applications which can exploit big data sources arising from social media, mobile devices and sensors, using new big-data platform.", \'Decision Support Systems:\\xa0Develops skills and knowledge about the core capabilities and components of modern decision support systems (DSS) and their application to management decisions. Extensions into intelligent DSS, group DSS and organisational DSS will also be explored.\', "Business Simulation:\\xa0You will learn to model the logic of business processes using visual modelling languages, how to fit statistical distribution to probabilistic business inputs and develop stochastic simulation models. We incorporate specialist simulation software, such as ARENA, focusing on computer-based simulation, where the model is implemented as part of a computer program, which can then be executed to compute and record the data which describes the simulated system\'s behaviour.", \'Future Informatics:\\xa0New and novel developments in computer science are having an increased significance and impact on service and manufacturing organisations. We will consider the emerging Information systems, informatics and computer science that are and being applied in modern technology solution\']