Summary of the Course
Text Book and Printed Resources
Prerequisites
Grading
Teaching Method
Weekly Schedule

Weekly deliverable

 

Summary of the course:

This capstone course emphasizes the management of information technology and related resources from a broad strategic perspective. Topics covered include assessment of information technologies and their fit to organizational structure, tracking emerging technologies and trends, managing portfolio resources and matching them to business needs, technology transfer, end-user computing, outsourcing, theoretical models, strategic applications and strategic IT planning. Students are encouraged to take this course toward the end of their study. (PREREQUISITES: Completion of the IS Core Knowledge Phase).
After completing this course students and managers should have:

• A better understanding of the variety of issues facing the various stakeholders involved in IS deployment in organizations.
• A better understanding of the importance of harnessing the power of new technologies to enable them to make better decisions and more effectively manage the firms in which they work or they will work.
• A better understanding of the importance of linking business strategy with IT strategy.
• Understand the strategic use of information technology from an enterprise level.
• Understand the internal management of information systems services from the point of view of the CIO.
•  Apply theoretical frameworks, models and theories to the field of information technology.
• Refine critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills using concepts from action learning

Textbooks and printed resources:

Applegate, L.M., Austin, R.D., and McFarlan, F.W. (2009) Corporate Information Strategy Management: Text and Cases. 8th Edition, Irwin; McGraw;Hill.

Pre-Requisites:

IS Core knowledge

The grading scheme is as follows:

Participation              10%

Assignment 1            20%

Assignment 2            20%

Assignment 3            20%

Group Assignment     30%
Total 100%

 

Grading Scale: 92 - 100 A 90 - 91 A- 88 - 89 B+ 82 - 87 B 80 - 81 B- 78 - 79 C+ 72 - 77 C 70 - 71 C- 68 - 69 D+ 62 - 67 D 60 - 61 D- 0 - 59 F

A combination of teaching methods will be used (team teaching, lecturing, guest speakers, group presentations, etc).