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Postgraduate Handbook 2019-2020 (archived)

Module BUSI52915: BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION THROUGH INFORMATION SYSTEMS (FT)

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI52915: BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION THROUGH INFORMATION SYSTEMS (FT)

Type	Level	Credits	Availability	Module Cap	Location
Tied	4	15	Available in 2019/2020		Durham

Tied To

N1K307: Entrepreneurship (full time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)
N1K507: Human Resource Management (full time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)
N1K607: Management (full time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)
N1K807: Marketing (full time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)

Pre-requisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Excluded Combinations

None.

Aims

To provide an introduction to a benefit driven framework for Information Systems strategy to enable business transformation.
To equip business managers to play an effective role in enabling their organisations to succeed in realising the strategic potential of Information Systems.

Content

A framework for IS and business transformation strategy: understanding opportunities for value.
Creating value for stakeholders: using a range of perspectives including business processes to understand the opportunities for value.
Exploring the opportunities created by IT innovation.
Achieving business transformation through portfolio management.
A benefits-driven approach to delivering value from information systems through business transformation.
Realising value in specific business scenarios.
Management frameworks for succeeding with business transformation through IS.
Building the organisational capability to succeed with business transformation.
Becoming leaders of transformation.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge

By the end of the module, students should:
have a critical appreciation of the sources of value provided by IS and illustrate the business opportunities provided by major trends in IS/IT.

Subject-specific Skills

By the end of the module, students should:
be able to articulate a framework for business transformation and IS strategy;
be able to apply a range of specialised techniques for identifying opportunities for IS-enabled business transformation that would contribute value to an organisation;
be able to critically evaluate and set priorities for investments in business transformation and IS;
be able to design a process for developing and implementing a business transformation strategy;
be able to debate a strategic perspective on management of the business transformation and IS investment portfolio;
be able to debate factors in building the business transformation capability of the organisation.

Key Skills

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading. The written work for the assessment will test students' understanding of relevant concepts and their ability to apply and interpret what they have learned to the analysis of a particular issue in depth.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total Hours
Lectures	9	weekly	2 hours	18
Seminars	4	fortnightly	1 hour	4
Preparation and Reading				128
Total				150

Summative Assessment

Component	Component Weighting	Element	Length/Duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Written Assignment	100%	Business report	2,500 words (maximum)	100%

Formative Assessment

Students receive feedback on their seminar contributions.

Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.