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IS110

Information Systems and Innovation

1 CreditsBoth

Description

In this course, you will get an overview of fundamental business concepts with an emphasis on the challenges and opportunities that arise from technology and how information systems can be used to create business value and innovations.

Requisites

Prerequisites: None

Co-requisites: None

Anti-requisites: IS110/ SMT110/IS114 - Mutually Exclusive

Attributes

Department: SCIS

Course Level: Undergraduate

Tracks: N/A

Areas: Business Options Econ Major Rel/Econ Options Information Systems Core (Intake 2018 and earlier) Information Systems Core (Intake 2019 to 2023) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Major Electives Smart-City Mgmt & Tech Core (Intake 2019 to 2021) Smart-City Mgmt &Tech Core (Intake 2018 & earlier) Social Sciences/PLE Major-related Technology Studies Cluster

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify IT-enabled business processes in an organization 2. Diagram a business process and the information systems it interacts with, and explain how these systems support the business process 3. Describe the relationship between a company's business processes, information systems and sources of competitive advantage 4. Analyse a case study involving linkages between IT and business value 5. Analyse costs and benefits of proposed process and system changes 6. Propose changes to business processes and information systems to address changes in the industry 7. Identify and evaluate alternative IT solutions for the proposed system changes (including costs and benefits) 8. Discuss implementation of proposed process and system changes 9. Understand how context differences across industry sectors, countries, and cultures affect the design and management of IT-enabled business solutions 10. Develop appropriate techniques for defining and managing the scope of a business-IT case analysis 11. Develop effective techniques for choosing and filtering information to be communicated in a case discussion 12. Effectively participate in class discussions, such as expressing persuasive arguments, asking and answering insightful questions that shed additional light or stimulate discussions on the topic

Competencies

Business Innovation, Business Requirements Mapping, Emerging Technology Synthesis, IT Strategy, Business Process Re-engineering