• Offered by Research School of Management
  • ANU College ANU College of Business and Economics
  • Classification Transitional
  • Course subject Information Systems
  • Areas of interest Business Information Systems
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Ruonan Sun
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Offered in First Semester 2019
    Second Semester 2019
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This course covers issues relating to the management of information and communication technology (ICT), important ICT infrastructure and systems, ICT strategic planning and the governance of ICT. Students will critically analyse and present ICT management issues in class.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

  1. Identify how Digital Transformation impacts corporate strategies (Remember & Ask);
  2. Classify different forms of Digital Disruption (Understand & Ask);
  3. Choose appropriate concepts and theories for developing business models (Apply & Acquire);
  4. Gauge the role information technology and the World Wide Web play in transforming business models and recognize its social and ethical implications (Analyse & Appraise);
  5. Compare all types of relevant evidence towards finding an appropriate business model on the Web for a disrupted organisation (Evaluate & Aggregate);
  6. Design an appropriate business model for an organisation that addresses the disrupted environment and design the change process required to arrive at the new business model (Create & Assess).

Other Information

Indicative Assessment

  1. Online Quiz 10% (10) [LO null]
  2. Individual Assignment 20% (20) [LO null]
  3. Group project, including Presentation and a peer review component 25% (25) [LO null]
  4. Final-Exam 45% (45) [LO null]

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Workload

Students taking this course are expected to commit at least 10 hours a week to completling the work. This will include 3 hours per week in class and at least 7 hours a week on average (including non-teaching weeks) on course reading, research, writing and assignment work.

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Preliminary Reading

Gassmann O., Frankenberger K., Csik M.: The Business Model Navigator, Pearson 2014.

Christensen C., Johnson M. W., Rigby D. K.: Foundations for Growth: How to identify and build disruptive New Businesses. MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol 43, No. 3. 2002

Hambrick D.C., Fredrickson J. W.: Are you sure you have a strategy. Academy of Management Executive, Vol 19, No. 4, 2005.

Osterwalder A., Pigneur Y.: Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers. John Wiley and Sons, 2010.

Teece D.J.: Business Models, Business Strategy and Innovation. Long Range Planning 43, 2010.

Assumed Knowledge

None

Specialisations

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
2
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2019 $4320
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2019 $5700
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
2583 25 Feb 2019 04 Mar 2019 31 Mar 2019 31 May 2019 In Person View

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
7554 22 Jul 2019 29 Jul 2019 31 Aug 2019 25 Oct 2019 In Person View

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