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)

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).

To be in related employment

None

This is a work-based learning module. The assessment will be designed to meet the learning outcomes of the module in the context of your workplace environment. The precise details will be drawn up on a learning contract. The contract will detail the form of the assessment and the assessment criteria to be used for marking.

"It is expected that the minimum academic contact time for this module will be 52 hours but the precise delivery mechanism is left flexible for each centre to choose a strategy suitable for the students involved. The precise learning strategies will be drawn up on the learning contract. The following is a guideline: - You will have a named academic module tutor. - You will complete a work-based learning agreement to ensure that arrangements are in place at your workplace to facilitate your work-based learning. - It is anticipated that broad coverage of the indicative content will be achieved through seminar sessions (which will include individual and group activities, discussions and case study analysis) and directed reading in order to gain and extend knowledge in areas of the indicative content not covered in depth by the classroom teaching. - You 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. Where group work is required you will be expected to utilise the VLE and other means of electronic communication to facilitate this. - In addition to completing the assessment, work based learning will usually include working through preparatory exercises and tasks in a module work-book guided by a work-based Mentor. - Employer Feedback Forms will be completed by the work-based mentor to provide formative feedback. - This feedback will be discussed at regular reviews (usually at least two per learning block) with your academic module tutor."