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| Course: | INFO205 - Strategic Uses of Information Systems |
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| On Campus Offering: | Summer (eve) |
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| Online Offering: | None |
| | Faculty: | Gasson, Susan
Marion, Linda
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| Extended Course Description: | Catalog Course Description:
Familiarizes students with basic business problems and operations and provides an understanding of how information systems can be used to benefit organizations. Also introduces students to the pitfalls of developing and implementing information systems in organizations and helps students improve critical thinking skills.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites:
INFO 102 Introduction to Information Systems II
Sophomore standing
Curriculum Role:
This course is an elective, aimed at higher-level Undergraduates, in their pre-junior, junior or senior year. It is intended to reinforce and develop their social skills as IT/IS professionals and to develop an awareness of technology use, adaptation, selection, and management issues in professional practice. This course is a writing-intensive course that develops students’ writing skills through a progressive series of assignments.
Course Rationale:
The course builds on the exposure to professional expertise in technology use, adaptation, selection, and management that students have obtained through co-op placements. Students investigate, analyze, and discuss real-world or written cases and participate in simulations of professional practice. The intention is to provide them with vicarious experience of a range of common IT systems management situations and technology decisions, to prepare them with proxy experiential knowledge of how to act in such situations. The emphasis is on examining situations where poor decisions by IT/IS professionals and managers have led to adverse social, political, economic, or technology-management consequences.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:
• Analyze “messy” problems in business organizations and recommend appropriate information system solutions;
• Recognize the needs of a diverse set of users and organizational stakeholders in information systems change;
• Recognize and avoid or solve common problems with applications of information technology in business organizations;
• Develop the skills and organizational awareness to participate knowledgably in planning and managing successful information systems projects;
• Competently prepare a written report on the organizational implications of deploying information systems in a situation with which they are unfamiliar.
Course Content:
Principal topics and the approximate number of weeks devoted to each are:
• The role of information systems and technologies in achieving business objectives (1)
• Process improvement and reengineering for information systems change (1)
• Organizational, business, and user impacts of information systems change (3)
• Selecting and managing information systems development approaches (1)
• Common problems in planning and managing organizational, political, contractual, budgetary, and resourcing aspects of IS development projects (3)
• Evaluating benefits and satisfying stakeholder expectations in the development of information systems for business organizations (1)
Presentation:
Note: Presentation method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Teaching method includes lectures, case study preparation, group exercises, and class discussion.
Assessment:
Note: Assessment method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Grade is based on class participation and written analyses of case studies. As this is a writing-intensive course, the quality of written submissions is actively developed through incremental feedback to students.
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