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INF 230 - Organization Informatics

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech
Examines the various needs, uses and consequences of information in organizational contexts. Topics include organizational types and characteristics, functional areas and business processes, information-based products and services, the use of and redefining the role of information technology, the changing character of work life and organizational practices, sociotechnical structures, and the rise and transformation of global information-based industries.
Prerequisite: INF 110 , INF 130  
Competencies
  1. Discuss how information systems are transofrming business and what their relationship is to globalization.
    1. Explain why information systems so essential for running and managing a business today.
    2. Define what exactly an information sysem is and how it works.
    3. Identify its management, organization, and technology components.
    4. Explain why complementary assets are essential for ensuring that information systems provide genuine value for an organization.
  2. Discuss how systems serve the various levels of management in a business.
    1. Explain how enterprise applications, collaboration and communication systems, intrnets improve organizational performance.
    2. Outline the difference between e-business, e-commerce, and e-government.
  3. Discuss the impact of information systems on organizations.
    1. Explain how Porter’s competitive forces model helps companies develop competitive strategies using information systems.
    2. Analyze how the value chain and value web models help businesses identify opportunities for strategic information system applications.
    3. Explain how information systems help businesses use synergies, core competencies, and network-based strategies to achieve competitive advantage.
  4. Discuss ethical, social, and political issues that are raised by information systems.
    1. Identify specific principles for conduct that can be used to guide ethical decisions.
    2. Explain why contemporary information systems technology and the Internet pose challenges to the protection of individual privacy and intellectural property.
    3. Outline ways information systems affected everyday life.
  5. Discuss IT infrastructure and what makes up its components.
    1. Outline the stages and technology drivers of IT infrastructure evolution.
    2. Identify the current trends in computer hardware platforms.
    3. Identify the current trends in software platforms.
    4. Discuss the challenges of managing IT infrastructure and management solutions.
  6. Discuss major capabilities of database management systems (DBMS) and why a relational DBMS so powerful.
    1. Identify some important principles of database design.
    2. Identify the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases to improve business performance and decision making.
    3. Explain why information policy, data administration, and data quality assurance are essential for managing the firm’s data resources.
  7. Discuss the principal components of telecommunications networks and key networking technologies.
    1. Identify the main telecommunications transmission media and types of networks.
    2. Explain how the Internet and Internet technology work, and how they support communication and e-business.
    3. List the principal technologies and standards for wireless networking, communication, and Internet access.
    4. Explain why radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless sensor networks valuable for business.
  8. Discuss the most important tools and technologies for safeguarding information resources.
    1. Explain why information systems are often vulnerable to destruction, error, and abuse.
    2. Compute the business value of security and cotnrol.
    3. Identify the componets of an organizational framework for security and control.
  9. Explain how enterprise systems help businesses achieve operational excellence.
    1. Outline how supply chain management systems coordinate planning, production, and logistics with suppliers.
    2. Identify how customer relationship management systems help firms achieve customer intimacy.
    3. Analyze the challenges posed by enterprise applications.
  10. Discuss the unique features of e-commerce, digital markets, and digital goods.
    1. Explain how Internet technology changed business models.
    2. Outline various types of e-commerce and how e-commerce has changed consumer retailing and business-to-business transactions.
    3. Identify the role of m-commerce in business and what are the most important m-commerce applications.
    4. List the principal payment systems for electronic commerce.
  11. Discuss the role of knowledge management and knowledge management programs in business.
    1. Discuss the types of systems used for enterprise-wide knowledge management and explain how they provide value for businesses.
    2. Identify the major types of knowledge work systems and explain how they provide value for firms.
    3. Discuss the business benefits of using intelligent techniques for knowledge management.
  12. Discuss the role of information systems in helping people working in a group make decisions more efficiently.
    1. Identify different types of decisions and explain how the decision-making process works.
    2. Outline how information systems support the activities of managers and management decision making.
    3. Explain how decision-support systems (DSS) differ from MIS and how they provide value to the business.
    4. Discuss how executive support systems (ESS) help senior managers make better decisions.
  13. discuss how building new systems produce organizational change.
    1. Identify the core activities in the systems development process.
    2. Identify the principal methodologies for modeling and designing systems.
    3. Discuss alternative methods for building information systems.
    4. Research new approaches for system-building in the digital firm era.
  14. Discuss the objectives of project management and explain why is it so essential in developing information systems.
    1. Identify methods that can be used for selecting and evaluating information systems projects and aligning them with the firm’s business goals.
    2. Outline how firms can assess the business value of information systems projects.
    3. Identify the principal risk factors in information systems projects.
    4. Identify strategies that are useful for managing project risk and system implementation.
  15. Discuss major factors that are driving the internationalization of business.
    1. Outline alternative strategies for developing global businesses.
    2. Explain how informaiton systems can support different global business strategies.
    3. Discuss the challenges posed by global informaiton systems and outline management solutions for these challenges.
    4. Discuss the issues and technical alternatives to be considered when developing international inforamtion systems.



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