Information Systems for Leaders ((3))

Catalog description

Information and information systems (IS) are vital organizational resources and constitute an integral part of managerial decision making. It is important to understand how managers can effectively utilize IS to achieve organizational goals. The objective of this course is to train students to identify, understand, and resolve managerial issues surrounding the use and management of IS in organizations. The course adopts the perspective that, in a world where the half-life of a particular hardware or software technology is often measured in months, developing intuitions about the core concepts to assess and deploy Information Systems is more valuable to future managers than learning the intricate details of a specific technology. The focus of the course is to develop - through cases, lectures, discussions, examples, application development assignments, and a system analysis and design project - insights into when and how MIS can be used to create and enhance an organization's competitive advantage.