Strategic Information Systems

Catalog description

(WI) This course will explore necessary management actions, which will ensure that information is available, correct, manipulatable, protected, and archived in proper forms to allow for a strategic use of information systems in the enterprise. Throughout this course we will review a set of conceptual frameworks of IT management, and by developing a critical view of two levels of IT management -- strategic and tactical. We will address the value/importance of IT from strategic and tactical perspectives, and the IT management challenges of managing people, processes and technology. This course is to be taken concurrently with CIS 4090 for all undergraduate computer information systems and Information Technology majors. Prerequisite(s): Senior Standing or CIS 4350 or Permission of Department Chair. Corequisite: CIS 4090.<br/>