• Offered by Research School of Management
  • ANU College ANU College of Business and Economics
  • Course subject Information Systems
  • Areas of interest Business Information Systems
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Prof Israr Qureshi
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Offered in Second Semester 2020
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All required activities in this course can be completed remotely, but some can be taken remotely or on-campus. Details on Wattle at start of Week 1

This course prepares students for future managerial level appointments by introducing the important management and socio-technical concepts related to the strategic development, investment and use of Business IT systems in organizations and business enterprises. The course actively builds on prior Business Information Systems fundamental and management studies, by focusing on integrated business systems thinking, particularly in the areas of organizational enterprise architecture and business process management. The course also covers enterprise systems design principles; the human dimension of enterprise systems; trust, security and ethics in the enterprise; enterprise resource, supply chain and customer relationship management systems; and, the importance of handling heterogeneous information systems in business environments. A practically oriented research and consulting report targeted at a contemporary real-world business problem is required as part of the assessment.

Learning Outcomes

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

  1. analyse, design and architect IT systems within small, medium and large enterprises
  2. analyse, redesign and manage business processes within small, medium and large enterprises
  3. manage the resourcing and control of enterprise IT systems.

Indicative Assessment

  1. Typical assessment may include, but is not restricted to: exams, assignments, quizzes, presentations and other assessment as appropriate. Further details will be made available via the Class Summary. (100) [LO 1,2,3]

In response to COVID-19: Please note that Semester 2 Class Summary information (available under the classes tab) is as up to date as possible. Changes to Class Summaries not captured by this publication will be available to enrolled students via Wattle. 

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Workload

Students taking this course are expected to commit 130 hours to completing the work. For semester length offerings this will typically include 3 hours per week in class and at least 7 hours a week on average (excluding non-teaching weeks) on course reading, research, writing and assignment work.

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Requisite and Incompatibility

You are not able to enrol in this course if you previously completed INFS8004.

Prescribed Texts

Information about the prescribed textbook (if any) will be made available via the Class Summary.

Assumed Knowledge

Students attempting this course are assumed to have done an introductory information systems course or possess basic background knowledge of information systems.

Majors

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
2020 $4320
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2020 $5760
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.

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
7309 27 Jul 2020 03 Aug 2020 31 Aug 2020 30 Oct 2020 In Person View

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