Emergent Technologies and Issues

Catalog description

Organizations must structure themselves to deal with emerging technologies and making the right decisions, at the right time, can be critical to determining whether the organization succeeds or fails. This course provides students with a basic understanding of emerging technologies as they relate to innovation and information systems in organizations, and the management strategies required to understand, leverage, and benefit from these technologies. Students will identify current, real technologies that are emerging or about to emerge into the mainstream, investigate those technologies, and ones from recent history, from a number of perspectives, to look at the impact of technologies on systems, business operations, and corporate and technology strategy. They will study the impact, benefits and downsides of standards as they related to information technology and delve into how those standards, and other factors, might affect the timing for implementation of emerging technologies in organizations.