6 ECTS credits
159 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4018126ENW voor werkstudenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend master niveau.

Semester
1e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Inschrijvingsvereisten
To be able to enroll for 'Informatics for Management' it is necessary to have succesfully passed for 'Introduction to Informatics and Supply Chain Management' or at least you need to be enrolled for 'Introduction to Informatics and Supply Chain Management'.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Business Technology and Operations
Onderwijsteam
Peter Jan De Bruyn (titularis)
Onderdelen en contacturen
0 contacturen Exam
20 contacturen Lecture
12 contacturen Practical exercises
127 contacturen Self study
Inhoud

This course covers a broad overview on how Information Technology (IT) can be or is typically used in the context of organizations.  
After briefly summarizing the strategic importance of information systems for contemporary organizations, the different types of information systems or enterprise applications (ERP, CRM, SCM, etcetera) as well as their most important building blocks are introduced.  
Next, a profound overview of IT project management (i.e., the system development lifecycle) is given during which special attention is devoted to the responsibilities of managers in a typical IT project.  
Afterwards, it is studied how the resulting information systems can impact or enable an organization's business model.  A set of current organizational IT trends are discussed and analyzed in terms of their potential business value.  
The course is ended with an introduction to data modelling, data querying, and process modelling.

Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Slides and supporting material available, Canvas
Handboek (Aanbevolen) : Management Information Systems, Managing the Digital Firm, Jane P. Laudon & Kenneth C. Laudon, 17de, Pearson, 9781292403281, 2021
Bijkomende info

The following handbooks provide additional background and can optionally be studied:

  • Silver (2011), BPMN Methods and Style, Cody-Cassidy Press, 2nd edition.
  • Fowler (2003), UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Addison-Wesley Professional (3rd edition).

Optionally, inspiring guest lecturers are invited to complement the theoretical knowledge that is acquired in the course with enriching practical testimonials.  Attendance to these guest lectures is (as far as the time schedule allows for it) obligatory.

Teaching Methods

  • Lecture: collective contact-dependent moments during which the lecturer engages with learning materials
  • Seminar, Exercises or Practicals (Practical): collective or individual contact-dependent moments during which the students are guided to actively engage with learning materials
  • Independent or External Form of Study (Self): independent study

This description of the teaching methods is indicative, in order to assess the expected study load.

Lecture: 20 hours

Practical: 12 hours (3 x 4 hours)

Self: 127 hours

  • keeping up with the course material during the semester, amouting to 2 hours per hour lecture: 40 hours
  • preparing exercises, amounting to 1,5 hours per hour practical: 18 hours
  • reading of papers before coming to class: 16 hours
  • individual preparation of actuality, amounting 1 hour per week: 13 hours (13 x 1 hour)
  • preparation exam: 40 hours (5 days of 8 hours)
Leerresultaten

General Competencies

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the competences to:

  • List, characterize and recognize the most important types of information systems and their primary building blocks within a realistic organizational setting

  • Identify and distinguish the different phases within IT project management (i.e., the software development life cycle), as well as the most crucial challenges and management responsibilities involved in each of them

  • Independently assess the impact of information systems on the business models of organizations (including phenomena such as digital transformation), and the business value of information systems in general

  • Explain the most important contemporary IT hypes, trends and technologies in terms of management terminology and critically reflect on their business potential

  • Formulate and validate elementary functional requirements of information systems by drafting and interpreting basic ERD diagrams, BPMN processes and SQL queries

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Written Exam met een wegingsfactor 100 en aldus 100% van het totale eindcijfer.

    Toelichting: The written exam may consist out of a combination of multiple choice questions, open-ended questions and exercises. The exam is a closed book exam.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

Not applicable.

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master of Management: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science: Multimedia (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science: Software Languages and Software Engineering (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master in de bewegings- en sportwetenschappen: Afstudeerrichting sportbeleid en sportmanagement - profiel sportbeleid en sportmanagement