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.

After successful completion of this course students are expected to be able to:

• 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, characterize targeted customers, distinguish functionalities, plan realisation and implementation of IS
• Design and realize a simple e-commerce application as a showcase of the above
• Evaluate risk, ethical, privacy and security issues related to IS
• Collaborate in all aspects of the above and perform peer evaluation

Assumed Knowledge:
Basic PC and Windows skills. BMO24306 is suggested.

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