Course Outline

Linking Systems to Strategy and the Organisation

Brief overview of business strategy frameworks

Brief overview of organisational strategies

Social business lens: building a social business strategy

Brief overview of information systems strategy

Information Systems Strategy: Architecture and Infrastructure

From vision to implementation

Architectural principles

Enterprise architecture

Virtualisation and cloud computing

Social business lens: building social-mobile applications

Cost Recovery of Information Systems

Organising to respond to business demand: a maturity model

What a manager can expect from the IT organisation

Chief Information Officer

Social business lens: community management

Building a business case

IT portfolio management

Valuing IT investments

Monitoring IT investments

Governance of the Information Systems Organisation

IT governance

IT governance and security

Social business lens: the consumerisation of technology

Decision-making mechanisms

Governance frameworks for control decisions

Business Analytics and Knowledge Management

Knowledge management processes

Business intelligence

Components of business analytics

Big data

Social analytics

Social business lens: social graphs

Target audience

Managers who wish to participate in information systems (IS) decisions.

Current and future managers who wish to be introduced to the broader implications of the impact of IS.

Contemporary managers who need to know about their organisation’s capabilities and uses of information.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:

The Information Systems Strategy Triangle framework for alignment of IS and the business.

A framework for understanding the four components of IS architecture: hardware, software, networks, and data.

The business of IT.

IS organisation, funding models, portfolios, and monitoring options.

The governance of IS resources.

Business intelligence, knowledge management, and analytics and an overview of how companies manage knowledge using business analytics.

Also see

To explore our full range of Information Systems course, click the link below:

IT Management courses.