Undergraduate - UnitFIT1003 - IT in organisations

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A theoretical and conceptual understanding of:

• basic concepts of information, including organisational and social issues relating to the ownership and control of information;
• basic concepts of information systems, including their role and importance in organisations and society;
• basic concepts of organisations, including organisational structures, the roles of individuals and groups in organisations, the role of communication in achieving organisational objectives, and the nature of communication in organisations;
• basic concepts of IT as it is used in organisations and society, including the evolution of the role of IT in organisations and society;
• information technologies and information technology infrastructures employed by organisations;
• the business and information management processes and functions for which IT is used in organisations, and in which IT professionals are involved;
• opportunities, risks and liabilities arising from the usage and application of IT in organisations;
• processes of acquiring, developing and managing IT in organisations;
• techniques and tools for describing and analysing information management processes in organisations;
• the roles of IT workers in organisations and the range of ethical and professional rights and responsibilities associated with them; and
• organisational and social issues arising from the use of IT in organisations, including privacy and civil liberties issues.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• recognise the importance of information to organisational processes and functions;
• recognise the opportunities and limitations of the role which IT can play in managing information in organisations; and
• appreciate the importance of the IT practitioners role in organisations and society, and the responsibilities it entails.

The skills to:

• document organisational information-related functions and processes;
• assess the potential scope for using IT as part of the solution to an organisational information problem;
• identify and discuss issues, problems and opportunities in using IT in organisations;
• identify and discuss the organisational and social impacts of IT, and the ethical dimensions of IT-related decisions;
• recognise the team skills necessary for successful development and implementation of IT solutions to information problems in organisations; and
• appreciate the importance of the inter-relationships between IT professionals and the stakeholders in IT-based systems in organisations.