Aims: The aim of this unit is to expose students to a range of issues that information systems and business management professionals will encounter when implementing and using information systems. Each topic will frame the major issues and controversies and points to other relevant literature. The unit reflects on significant information systems issues reported in the literature.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the unit the students should have developed an understanding of critical management issues with respect to the development and use of information technology in organizations; key criteria and frameworks for understanding of organizational aspects of information systems.
Skills:
This unit will contribute to skills development in the areas of intellectual, professional and transferable skills, including: critical thinking, an awareness of issues in the analysis and understanding of the use of information systems in work settings, capability of applying academic ideas to real-world problems.
Content:
The content of the academic sessions will be updated each year to reflect then current issues in information systems, but the following is indicative of the content: IT Outsourcing; Information and knowledge management; IT infrastructure management; Ethical issues in IS; IT and SMEs; Virtual teamworking; IT and Globalization.
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