Management Information Systems (ITEC421)
This course demonstrates how information technology (IT) continually enhances our capabilities to observe, to relate, and to decide at various managerial positions in an enterprise and how it provides us with new models to organise economic activity within and across firms. In this respect, students are taught to observe how IT has been shaping the way we do business over the past decades and extrapolate such trends into the future in order to critically discuss the strengths and shortcomings of contemporary information systems so that as future managers they become more discerning about how they deploy IT in their enterprise. The main topics include strategic use of information systems, enterprise (ERP) systems (including various intranet and extranet applications regarding employees, suppliers, and customers), electronic commerce, knowledge management systems, and decision support systems. Issues regarding systems development, outsourcing, global IS systems, and financial evaluation of IS investments are also discussed in relation to the main topics.