This course can be taken as part of the Master's degree in Management Information Systems or as an elective in other programs. There are no prerequisites, although several years of prior work experience in any type of organization would be helpful.
Strategic decisions are generally less well defined, at least initially, than operating decisions.
The information needed to support strategic decisions differs from that used for operational decisions in that strategic information is more qualitative than quantitative, uses external data in addition to internal data, and requires more emphasis on the assessment and interpretation of available data, much of which is fragmentary and incomplete, than do systems that support operational decisions.