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Unit Summary
Unit type
PG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
School/College
Anti-requisites
Unit aim
Provides a managerial approach to the use of information and information systems in organisations. Students are introduced to the use of information and information systems as a means of achieving competitive advantage and for improving efficiency and effectiveness in business processes and managerial decision-making. Students learn to manage information as one of the key resources of an organisation by planning, developing, implementing and evaluating information systems from a managerial perspective, taking into account social, ethical and global factors.
Unit content
- Overview and foundation: Information and information systems in organisations
- Information systems for competitive advantages
- Information systems planning (including information systems project selection and evaluation)
- Developing and implementing information systems
- Information systems infrastructure management: hardware, software and networks (covering cloud computing and other latest developments)
- Data resource management
- Information systems for business operations (internal and external relations)
- Information systems for decision support (including business intelligence), collaboration and knowledge management
- Security, ethical and global implications of information systems
- Challenges/issues, trends and future directions
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain the alignment between information strategies and business strategies of their organisations to achieve sustainable competitive advantage | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
| 2 | understand the role of information systems in supporting operations and decision making in the organisation | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
| 3 | analyse trends, developments and critical issues of information systems | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
| 4 | discuss security, ethical and global implications of information systems | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Cultural competence | ||||
| 5 | plan, develop, and implement information systems from a managerial perspective to improve the performance of their organisations. | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- explain the alignment between information strategies and business strategies of
their organisations to achieve sustainable competitive advantage
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- understand the role of information systems in supporting operations and decision making
in the organisation
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- analyse trends, developments and critical issues of information systems
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- discuss security, ethical and global implications of information systems
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA7: Cultural competence
- plan, develop, and implement information systems from a managerial perspective to
improve the performance of their organisations.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
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