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COMP8750 – Information Systems Design and Management

2022 – Session 2, In person-scheduled-weekday, North Ryde

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff Convenor
Stephen Smith
stephen.smith@mq.edu.au
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Lecturer
Matthew Mansour
matthew.mansour@mq.edu.au
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Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
ITEC602 or COMP6770
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

This unit focuses on enterprise management information systems and the technologies used in their design, implementation and maintenance. The alignment of information systems with business strategy and the socio-technical aspects of systems development are explored. Systems discussed include ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence and Groupware. The nexus between social media, cloud computing, mobile devices and big data is considered. A case study analysing the business rationale for an enterprise systems project is conducted.

Important Academic Dates

Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Analyse the business value of information systems to assist in the justification of an IT investment based on the delivery of specific business benefits.
  • ULO2: Analyse the functionality and business context for major enterprise systems including ERP, BI, CRM and Enterprise 2.0, and recommend appropriate investments based on the specific business context.
  • ULO3: Use your understanding of the nexus of mobile, cloud, social and big data trends to an enterprise IT strategic plan to generate opportunities from these developing technologies
  • ULO4: Critically evaluate contemporary and emerging enterprise IT technologies to establish a watching brief for an IT department within a major enterprise.

General Assessment Information

Late Assessment Submission Penalty 

From 1 July 2022, Students enrolled in Session based units with written assessments will have the following university standard late penalty applied. Please see https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/assessments for more information.

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of '0' will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern.

For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration.

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted

In this unit, late submissions will accepted as follows:

• Assignment  "Case for IT Capital Project" - YES, Standard Late Penalty applies

• Assignment "ERP Analysis" - YES, Standard Late Penalty applies

• Assignment "Strategic IT Initiatives - YES, Standard Late Penalty applies

 

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Weeky Quiz 10% No Weeks 3-12
Case for IT Capital Project 10% No Week 5
ERP Analysis 10% No Week 8
Strategic IT Initiatives 20% No Week 12
Final Examination 50% No TBA

Weeky Quiz

Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 0 hours
Due: Weeks 3-12
Weighting: 10%

 

Student will complete a weekly quiz - solutions submitted online.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse the business value of information systems to assist in the justification of an IT investment based on the delivery of specific business benefits.
  • Analyse the functionality and business context for major enterprise systems including ERP, BI, CRM and Enterprise 2.0, and recommend appropriate investments based on the specific business context.
  • Use your understanding of the nexus of mobile, cloud, social and big data trends to an enterprise IT strategic plan to generate opportunities from these developing technologies
  • Critically evaluate contemporary and emerging enterprise IT technologies to establish a watching brief for an IT department within a major enterprise.

Case for IT Capital Project

Assessment Type 1: Project
Indicative Time on Task 2: 22 hours
Due: Week 5
Weighting: 10%

 

Justification for IT Capital Projects - This is an individual assignment which considers a series of IT capital projects and uses non-financial models to prioritise these projects for the given business context. Eight contemporary IT capital projects are suggested. Each project has good financial returns and is useful to the business, but only 3 to 4 projects can be funded. Nonfinancial models are used to prioritise the projects.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse the business value of information systems to assist in the justification of an IT investment based on the delivery of specific business benefits.
  • Analyse the functionality and business context for major enterprise systems including ERP, BI, CRM and Enterprise 2.0, and recommend appropriate investments based on the specific business context.
  • Use your understanding of the nexus of mobile, cloud, social and big data trends to an enterprise IT strategic plan to generate opportunities from these developing technologies
  • Critically evaluate contemporary and emerging enterprise IT technologies to establish a watching brief for an IT department within a major enterprise.

ERP Analysis

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: Week 8
Weighting: 10%

 

An Individual assignment which considers a detailed real world case study about a failed ERP implementation and provides guidance based on course material on how this company should now proceed. This real company in Taiwan failed with their first wave ERP upgrade. Students are to identify the reasons for this failure and consider a series of different go forward strategies based on the latest available technology.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse the business value of information systems to assist in the justification of an IT investment based on the delivery of specific business benefits.
  • Analyse the functionality and business context for major enterprise systems including ERP, BI, CRM and Enterprise 2.0, and recommend appropriate investments based on the specific business context.
  • Critically evaluate contemporary and emerging enterprise IT technologies to establish a watching brief for an IT department within a major enterprise.

Strategic IT Initiatives

Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 20%

 

This is a group assignment. Students start with a contemporary IT major initiative e.g. ERP upgrade, BI, CRM, AI, Cloud, KM, Mobile and IoT. Then, a suitable company is selected and a high level business plan is submitted for the proposal identifying the business context,expected business benefits, a possible technical solution and major risks. Each student is allocated a segment of the report. One deliverable is the group report and the second deliverable is an individual presentation on the component that the student was allocated. Each of these two deliverables counts towards 10% of the final grade.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse the business value of information systems to assist in the justification of an IT investment based on the delivery of specific business benefits.
  • Use your understanding of the nexus of mobile, cloud, social and big data trends to an enterprise IT strategic plan to generate opportunities from these developing technologies

Final Examination

Assessment Type 1: Examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 13 hours
Due: TBA
Weighting: 50%

 

This is an exam with short and long answer questions based on the lecture and reference material presented throughout the course.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse the business value of information systems to assist in the justification of an IT investment based on the delivery of specific business benefits.
  • Analyse the functionality and business context for major enterprise systems including ERP, BI, CRM and Enterprise 2.0, and recommend appropriate investments based on the specific business context.
  • Use your understanding of the nexus of mobile, cloud, social and big data trends to an enterprise IT strategic plan to generate opportunities from these developing technologies

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

Classes

Mode of delivery is a Hybrid mode. COMP7750/8750 is taught via lectures (via Zoom live and recorded for revision purposes) and the tutorial session component is expected to be online via Zoom.

There is one class per week that will consist of three (3) hours (Lecture 2 hours + Tutorial 1 hour). The timetables portal is available here: http://timetables.mq.edu.au

Recommended Texts:

he following text is recommended, especially for students without an extensive IT background: K. C. Laudon and J. P. Laudon “Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm” 16th Edition, Pearson, 2019.

This book is available from Pearson as an eBook https://www.pearson.com.au/9781292296562 . If unsure about the value of this text, I will be referencing the 16th and most up to date edition, however, earlier editions are quite similar.

The following books are suggested as recommended reading. Copies of these books are available from the library.

Sumner, M, “Enterprise Resource Planning” Prentice Hall, 2005

Magal, S.R. and Word, J., “Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems”, Wiley, 2012.

Turban, E., Sharda, R, Delen, D and King, D, ”Business Intelligence: A Managerial Approach” 3rd Edition, Pearson, New International Edition, 2014

Lectures will list appropriate Web based references and further reading for some of the rapidly evolving technologies discussed in this course. These additional references will be available for download through the class website.

Unit Material

A student folder with all the lecture notes and electronic references will be available for download through the class web site on iLearn at: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/

All assignments are accessed from iLearn and submitted through iLearn.

Supplementary Final Exam

If you receive special consideration for the final exam, a supplementary exam will be scheduled in December 2022. By making a special consideration application for the final exam you are declaring yourself available for a re-sit during the supplementary examination period and will not be eligible for a second special consideration approval based on pre-existing commitments. Please ensure you are familiar with the policy prior to submitting an application. Approved applicants will receive an individual notification one week prior to the exam with the exact date and time of their supplementary examination.

Unit Schedule

Week

Topic

Reference

1 Steve

Course Introduction

Information Systems in Global Business Today

Strategic Alignment

Gartner

Laudon & Laudon Chapter 1

Henderson and Venkatraman

2 Matt

Global E-Business and Collaboration

Hand out Assignment 1 

 Laudon & Laudon Chapter 2

3 Matt

Information Systems, Organisations and Strategy

 Laudon & Laudon Chapter 3

4 Matt

Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems

IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies

 

Hand out Assignment 2 

 Laudon & Laudon Chapters 4 & 5

5 Steve

Assignment 1 - Due

Big Data Analytics Analytics for Marketing

Foundations of Business Intelligence

IBM, Gartner

Laudon & Laudon Chapter 6

6 Steve

AI/Fuzzy Logic

Hand out Group Assignment 3 

Research Articles

 

7 Steve

Managing Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence

Enhancing Decision Making

 

 Laudon & Laudon Chapters 11 & 12
  Mid semester break 12-23rd September  

8 Matt

Achieving Operational Excellence:

E-Commerce: Digital Markets

Assignment 2 Due

 Laudon & Laudon Chapters 9 & 10

9 Matt

 Knowledge Management

 

Gartner

10 Steve

Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology, Security 

Laudon & Laudon Chapter 7 & 8

11 Steve

Group Assignment Tutorial

  

12 Matt

Building Information Systems

Making The Business Case for (Global) IS

 Assignment 3 Due

 Laudon & Laudon Chapters 13,14  & 15

13 Steve, Matt

Group Presentations

Examination Revision

  

14 Steve

Examination Revision (if required)

  

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Results

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Academic Integrity

At Macquarie, we believe academic integrity – honesty, respect, trust, responsibility, fairness and courage – is at the core of learning, teaching and research. We recognise that meeting the expectations required to complete your assessments can be challenging. So, we offer you a range of resources and services to help you reach your potential, including free online writing and maths support, academic skills development and wellbeing consultations.

Student Support

Macquarie University provides a range of support services for students. For details, visit http://students.mq.edu.au/support/

The Writing Centre

The Writing Centre provides resources to develop your English language proficiency, academic writing, and communication skills.

The Library provides online and face to face support to help you find and use relevant information resources. 

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IT Help

For help with University computer systems and technology, visit http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/offices_and_units/information_technology/help/. 

When using the University's IT, you must adhere to the Acceptable Use of IT Resources Policy. The policy applies to all who connect to the MQ network including students.

Changes from Previous Offering

Lectures have been re-structured to more cloesly align with the prescribed "textbook"

 

Unit information based on version 2022.02 of the Handbook