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| Course: | INFO631 - Information Technology Integration |
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| On Campus Offering: | Winter (eve) |
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| Online Offering: | Summer |
| | Faculty: | Grillo, Peter
Leitner, Lee
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| Extended Course Description: | Catalog Course Description:
Focuses on integration of information technologies from an organizational perspective. Coverage includes IT product and service selection and evaluation, impact of emerging technologies, standards, and vendor strategies. Emphasizes financial considerations including return on investment, time cost of money, depreciation, and system life.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites:
IS Foundations Requirement
Curriculum Role:
INFO 631 is a core course in the MSIS program.
Course Rationale:
Integration of information technology is not just a technical concern. It is also fundamentally an economic concern to the organization considering new information technologies. This course centers on these fundamental financial integration considerations.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:
• Articulate the issues of technology integration and economic value to an organization
• Examine costs and benefits of technology adoption over time
• Apply techniques to analyze cost considerations in selecting IT products and services
• Evaluate multiple information technology proposals from an economic perspective
• Calculate return on investment for technology proposals
• Evaluate the effects of different funding sources for technology acquisition
• Determine planning horizons and economic life of technology assets
Course Content:
Principal topics and the approximate number of weeks devoted to each are:
• Overview of IT integration issues (1)
• Technical evaluation of IT products and services (4)
• Cost considerations in IT decision analysis (3)
• Planning horizons, economic life, replacement decisions for IT (1)
• Estimation and uncertainty in IT decisions (1)
Presentation:
Note: Presentation method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Lectures, class discussion, and homework assignments.
Assessment:
Note: Assessment method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Evaluation is based on individual homework assignments, tests, and class participation.
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