IS Strategy, Management and Acquisition (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the key strategic issues facing managers seeking to deploy and exploit enterprise information technology and systems and issues behind the “”IT productivity paradox””; Explain the impact of the external environment context on the strategic use of IT in organization; Explain about the role enterprise information systems as enablers of organizational transformation; Explain about the importance of managerial IT competence in managing the design, implementation, and exploitation of IT systems; Explain about the key IS/IT resources that must be assembled and deployed in order to derive IT performance benefits; Explain about the actions that managers should take to build organizational IS/IT capability

Topics:

1. The Information Systems Strategy Triangle
2. Strategic Use of Information Resources
3. Organizational Strategy and Information System
4. Information System and the Design of Work
5. Information System for Managing Business Processes
6. Architecture and Infrastructure
7. Information Systems Sourcing
8. The Business of IT
9. Governance of The Information System Organization
10. Knowledge Management