IC7973 Managerial Information Technologies Usually offered in the fall or winter term. This course discusses available tools such as decision-support systems, expert systems, executive information systems, and artificial intelligence. It also focuses on evaluating the business meaning of new ICS developments and identifying those most likely to provide important benefits in the near future including image technology, electronic data interchange, video-based technologies and neural networks. The Human Side of ICS Usually offered in the fall term. Information and communications technology is changing workers and their work, causing massive organizational change.
Systems are now more likely to fail for organizational reasons than for technical reasons.
The course studies the human side of effective implementation of new systems. It is designed to help students become effective facilitators of change and to ensure that managers pay attention to the human side in every aspect of information technology. Usually offered in the fall or winter term. Managing ICS benefits as well as costs is a massive organizational challenge. ICS is no longer overhead but a major element in almost every area of business innovation and operation.