FIT9123 · Fundamentals of business information systems

Overview

The unit aims to introduce you to various technologies and contexts within which the technologies operate, are created and managed, as well as the purposes and aims that guide them.

Areas of study: Business information systems IT for business

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Determine key considerations of strategic business contexts relevant to managing IT resources in an organisation;
2. Analyse common business processes and the role IT can play in managing these processes;
3. Discuss appropriate sourcing strategy for provisioning information systems;
4. Identify the requirements for ongoing management of IT infrastructure in an organisation;
5. Explain key considerations in strategically planning for technological innovation to meet the short and long-term business objectives of an organisation;
6. Discuss ethical issues relevant to members of the IT profession, and to the management and use of IT in organisations.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled online and face to face learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated reading and preparation for scheduled teaching activities.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.