Information systems management
Mr C F Lau
6 points * 4 hours per week * First 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 Informations 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 Prentice-Hall, 4th edn, 1992
Lucas Jr H C Managing information services Maxwell Macmillan, 1989
Martin E W, Dehayes D W, Hoffer J A and Perkins W C Managing information technology: What managers neeed to know Maxwell Macmillan, 1991
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