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Department of Accounting and Finance

ACCG822: Information Systems in Business

Lecturer in charge	Dr Yvette Blount
Availability	D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year E1 - Evening; Offered in the first half-year
Unit Outline	2008 - Semester 2 2008 - Semester 1 2007 - Semester 2 2007 - Semester 1 2006 - Semester 1 2006 - Semester 2
Websites	Handbook Entry MCom + MIB Student Guide Description This unit enables students to gain an understanding the implications and impacts of the Web revolution based on the basic principles of management information systems. The capabilities of information technologies are increasing. This provides organisations with strategic advantage by facilitating problem solving, increasing productivity and quality, increasing speed, improving customer service, enhancing communication and collaboration and enabling business process restructuring. Managing information resources, new technologies and communications has become one of the critical success factors in the success of organisations. One of the most important technological revolutions has been the Web revolution. This has changed the way we work, how we study and how we live our lives. The primary objective of this unit is to understand the concept of the digital economy, the impact business pressures play on the organisation and their responses and adaptations to these pressures and the role that technology plays both inside and outside the organisation in the context of globalisation. The focus is on the creation of business value by enabling business processes through the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs). Achievement of the unit's objectives should enable students to play an effective part in information development, management, and use, and more able to communicate effectively with ICT professionals. The unit should be relevant to students from a variety of business specialisations. The evolution of web technologies and electronic commerce continues to raise more issues, additional applications and further advances in what can be achieved. This unit will deal with some of these issues by using contemporary case studies and real life examples throughout the semester to demonstrate the practical application of the theories and concepts developed. Topics IT Support of Organisational Performance E-Business and E-Commerce Mobile, Wireless and Pervasive Computing Enterprise Systems Interorganisational and Global Information Systems Knowledge Management Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management Management Decision Support and Intelligent Systems IT Strategy and Planning Information Technology Economics Managing Information Resources and Security Impacts on Individuals, Organisations, and Society