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STRATEGIC ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Byte size learning skills course of 1 comprehensive
session
The idea that information is a
resource may not be new, but its significance is often
misunderstood. Other resources, such as people, machines and
money, are considered together but information is considered
separately. Perhaps information is not like these other resources.
Perhaps it cannot be used as a substitute for them, in an economic
sense. For example, we can substitute people for machines in an
economy where labour is cheap and plentiful. Can we do the same
with information? Can information, that intangible and ethereal
thing, replace heavy machinery, for example? Quite possibly, as it
happens.
After completing this course, you
should be able to:
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define the purpose of information
systems in business
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list the components of modern
information systems
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identify the pressures driving
change and corporate responses to change
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classify different types of
information systems
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identify the impact of IT in a
competitive industrial environment
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analyse the potential effects of
IT in your industry
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map the relationships between key
concepts.
For this course, you will need to either
purchase or borrow the textbook:
Information
Technology for Management: Making Connections for Strategic Advantage
(1999) Efraim Turban, Ephraim McLean, and James Wetherbe, second edition,
New York: John Wiley.
Course Content
Introduction
Objectives
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Managing in the Information
Age
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Managerial involvement with IT
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Information SYSTEMS in Organisations
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Classifying information systems
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Information systems integration
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Information infrastructure integration
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Business
process integration
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Examining
the five forces
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Analysing
strategic IT effects
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Analysing
IT potential in your industry
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Strategic
applications of IT
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Identifying strategic applications of IT
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Analysing
further strategic applications
Tutor-marked Question Paper
Qualification: Certificate of Completion in
Strategic Role of Information Technology |
