Applied Information Technology

Information and communication systems nowadays play a vital role in our society. The course elaborates on designing and managing these information systems, a major challenge for the managers of an organization. The course also includes the consumer perspective.

• Create a new business model that relies on the application of smart information technology, use of data, business processes and business cases

• Interpret, analyse and adapt data models and process models

• Understand the process of business intelligence analysis

• Apply information system architecture, characterise targeted customers, distinguish functionalities, plan realisation and implementation of information systems

• Design and realise a simple e-commerce application as a showcase of the above

• Evaluate risk, ethical, privacy and security issues related to information systems

• Collaborate in all aspects of the above and perform peer evaluation

• Written test with closed questions (50%)
• Assignment report (25%)
• Performance (25%) Practical assignment: webshop. (Group n = 2).
• Performance (%) Peer review: submission of 5 peer reviews. For a pass, at most one peer review can be missed. Submission must be reviewed as submission by peers.

Basic PC and Windows skills. BMO24306 is suggested.

• See http://www.wur.eu/inf