Course overview
This course provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge of the role of information systems to an organisation's operation and explores how this impacts on organisational management and leadership decisions, business strategy, and business conduct. The course assists students to develop skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of information systems of an organisation to its competitive position.
Students completing the course develop an advanced body of knowledge that:
Contributes to a comprehensive and integrated application of the use of information systems to enhance organisational competitiveness to recent developments in the field of senior organisational management and leadership in international business environments.
Provides a pathway for further learning.
Course learning outcomes
- understand the elements of coherent information for management decisions including the interface between information systems and the wider organisation;
- assess how more effective operationscan merge from an active integration of systems;
- create and maintain links both internally and with the external business environment;
- enable an organisation to operate efficiently and effectively;
- measure performance and service.