Information systems management
C F Lau
6 points
* 4 hours per week
* Second semester
* Gippsland,
Distance
* Prerequisites: GCO2813
* Prohibitions: SYS3070,
SYS3074
Objectives: On completion of this subject students should understand the relationship between IT, organisational management, and resource management strategies; be able to identify the processes and potential problems involved in IS development and IT planning and management; and be able to identify operational management requirements of a system and understand the processes behind IT resourcing, discuss current trends and people issues in IT management.
Synopsis Information systems management - importance of IS management, IS management's leadership role, strategic role of IS, IS planning. Managing essential technologies - distributed systems, building the network system, managing information resources and IS operations. End user computing. Managing software development. New technologies. Acquisition of hardware, software and services. Information systems and people. Managing the human side of IS.
Assessment Examination (3 hours): 50%
* Other assessment modes:
50%
Prescribed texts
Sprague R H and McNurlin B C Information systems management in practice 3rd edn, Prentice-Hall, 1993
Recommended texts
Frenzel C W Management of information technology Boyd and Fraser, 1992
Kanter J Managing with information 4th edn, Prentice-Hall, 1992
Lucas H C Jr Managing information services Maxwell-Macmillan, 1989
Martin E W and others Managing information technology - what managers need to know Maxwell-Macmillan, 1991
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