This module makes a contribution to the following:
Business Environment and Processes
- The difference between product/service and project based companies,
- Supply chain, inventory and capacity issues.
- The management of quality in the organisation - satisfying customer requirements
- The management of people - identifying theories of management and motivation and their implication for job design.
- The role of strategic and business planning and the marketing function together with an understanding of financial essentials - budgeting, cash flows and financial accounts
The relationship between business strategy and information systems (IS) strategy
- Knowledge management, business intelligence and analytics
- The web-enabled enterprise
- Customer Relationship Management systems
- Strategic tools for analysis (e.g. SWOT, STEEP, Porter¿s five forces)
- IS as a business resource
- IT strategy development (using e.g. Earl's Strategic Grid, Earl's three pronged approach)
Implementing, managing and controlling IT systems.
- Sourcing and outsourcing
- Collaborative systems
Management Information Systems
- Information theory, decision making,
- Organisation theory, systems theory,
- Planning and control within business,
- Different types of information systems (Executive Information Systems, Expert Systems, Geographical Information Systems, Decision Support Systems).

Prior Study of either CESCOM10090-4 Professional and Academic Skills for ICT I or CESCOM10088-4 Professional and Academic Skills for Applied IT I.

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Management Information Systems, Lucey, T., 2004, Thompson, ISBN-10: 1844801268, ISBN-13: 978-1844801268 (Edition: 9th Revised edition)
Information Systems: A Management Approach, Gordon, S., Gordon, J. 2004, Wiley, ISBN-10: 0471702528, ISBN-13: 978-0471702528 (Edition: 3)
Management Information Systems, O'Brien, J., 2011, McGraw Hill, ISBN-10: 0071221093, ISBN-13: 978-0071221092 (Edition: 10)

72 hours classroom teaching including presentations and seminar sessions which will include individual and group activities, discussions and case study analysis.
The classroom teaching will include a broad overview of the indicative content.
Independent study will involve directed reading in order to gain and extend knowledge in areas of the indicative content not covered in depth by the classroom teaching.
The classroom based learning component of this module provides an opportunity for students to seek and for tutors to provide formative feedback. Outside the classroom, students will be encouraged to discuss aspects of the module within discussion forums that are part of the VLE. These forums will allow discussion with a student's peer group as well as the module tutor.

A CLASS TEST Weighted at 50%. A SECOND COURSEWORK Weighted at 50%
Coursework 1 addressing learning outcomes 1 and 4
- A class test 1 hour
Coursework 2 addressing all learning outcomes 2 and 3)
- A report (circa 3,000 words) evaluating a given case study scenario with recommendations for an IS strategy to underpin the business strategy.