MN22157: Digital business transformation
[Page last updated: 15 April 2024]
Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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Assessment Summary: | CWRI 30%, EXCB 70% |
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Learning Outcomes: |
�Gain an understanding of how information technologies influence communication patterns, community, and connections between people.
�Develop skills to build teams and collaborations with people in dispersed locations.
�Assess new communication technologies and when and how to use them, and to make informed choices regarding the design and use of these technologies.
�Gain an understanding of the drivers that facilitate and constrain the application and growth of e-business technologies.
�Evaluate the ways in which e-business technologies can be applied within firms.
�Reflect upon the likely nature of future challenges and opportunities from e-business technologies. |
Synopsis: | Explore the key features of virtual groups and communities, the theories that underpin how they work and interact, and the ways in which design can influence online, virtual groups; and develop a coherent insight into e-business from a management perspective. By means of lectures and group discussions, analyse online environments with an eye toward design, including how virtual groups can be managed from within, and how managers can design groups to achieve organizational goals. |
Content: | Likely topics for this unit include:
Theories of communication and community in virtual environments
Virtual teams and e-leadership
Virtual community and social network analysis
Social action, social media, and ICTs
Persuasive design and technology
Innovating Potentials of Information Technologies
Disrupting Business Models
Emerging Value Creation Models in the Digital Era
IT-enabled inter-organisational partnership
Emergent forms of work and organisation
Knowledge sharing and creation in Electronic Networks of Practice
Managing Distributed teams and Organisations. |
Course availability: |
MN22157 is Optional on the following courses:School of Management
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