Dr Ela Klecun, NAB 3.37 and Dr Tony Cornford, NAB3.29

Optional for BSc Business Mathematics and Statistics, BSc Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, and BSc Management Sciences. Available to General Course students and as an outside option with the permission of the course teacher.

Students are expected to have knowledge of information systems to a level equivalent to IS143 Information Technology and Society.

The course considers the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into organisations and their working practices, from strategic intentions through design and implementation to use and the intended and unintended effects. Topics covered include: establishing requirements for information systems; the systems development process and methodologies; strategic perspectives on information systems; organizational change and information systems; e-business models; strategic information infrastructures; information systems evaluation; project management.

This is not a technical hands-on course; rather it involves the study of a body of literature on the management and use of ICT by organizations. Drawing on information systems and management literature, the course provides an opportunity for students to examine case studies of successes and failures and to explore 'real-world' issues of information systems management. Most of the theory presented in the course is dealt with in the Michaelmas Term beginning with a brief review of the history of information systems and the origins of the subject. In the Lent term this theory is drawn upon as students present in seminars based on selected readings.

10 two hour lecture in MT, 4 two hour lectures in LT, 5 two hour seminars in LT and 15 one hour classes in MT and LT.

Avison, D. and G. Fitzgerald, Information Systems Development, McGraw Hill, 4th Edition, 2006; Checkland, P. and J. Poulter, Learning from Action: a Short Definite Account of Soft Systems Methodology and its Use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students, Wiley, 2006; Ciborra, C. The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems, Oxford University Press, 2002; Galliers, R. D. and W. Currie, The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems Critical Perspectives and New Directions, Oxford University Press, 2011; Laudon, K.C. and J.P. Laudon, Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 12th Ed., Prentice Hall, 2011.

The course is examined on an individual project in MT (20%), on a group project in LT (20%), which includes seminars and a report, and a three-hour formal examination in the ST that counts for 60% of the final mark.