School of Administrative Studies York University Course Outline AP/ADMS4511 M Managing and Implementing Strategic Information Systems Term: Winter 2018 Course Instructor Marius Dobre, Atkinson Building, E-mail: mdobre@yorku.ca Please send email messages from inside the YorkU.ca domain only. Plain text only, NO attachments of any kind. Email from outside the YorkU.ca domain may be blocked. Office Hours: By appointment only. Schedule Tuesday 4:00 pm- 7:00 pm Location: HNE-035 First day of class: Tuesday Jan 9, 2018 Last date to add a course without permission of instructor: January 17, 2018 Last date to add a course with permission of instructor: January 31, 2018 Last date to drop a course without receiving a grade: March 9, 2018 If you withdraw between March 10 and the end of classes, the course remains on your transcript without a grade and is notated as “W”. Last day of class – Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Exam schedule: April 9-23, 2018 Course Overview Information technology (IT) is a critical resource for many of today’s businesses and often constitutes the single largest capital expenditure of a firm. We refer to strategic information systems to describe IT resources that are directed towards achieving the firm’s business goals and strategies. Strategic information systems provide competitive advantage and have enabled radically lower cost structures, new and innovative levels of customer service, new products, new markets, changes in the nature of many jobs and relationships with key stakeholders such as customers and suppliers. This course seeks to provide a new generation of managers with a solid foundation for ongoing learning about using IT to enable strategy and obtain more value from IT. In this course, we take the strategic perspective of the general manager and study how firms derive more value from their IT investments. The course focuses on the strategic impact of IT and business value of strategic information systems that can be achieved rather than the details of the technology itself. Issues in this
Course Schedule Session Date Topic Readings Discussion case (detailed guidance provided below) Case presentation Activity/ deliverable 1 January 9, 2018 Office of the CIO Developing an IT Strategy Lane Ch. 14, 9 - - Case Study 1-1 - Form project teams - Select team case - Select hand-in assignment 2 January 16, 2018 Strategic Alignment Information Technology Portfolio Management Lane Ch. 8, 12 1 In-class practice Case Study 2-1 3 January 23, 2018 Collaboration and Teamwork A New Paradigm for Managing a Suite of Business Processes Inexpensively Lane Ch. 1,11 2 Team 1 Case Study -Case discussion - Case write up (presenting team) Written case feedback teams) Generate 2-3 ideas for the team project
11 March 27, 2018 IT performance Project Reviews Competitive Application of Technology Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Portable, Mobility Computing Lane Ch. 10 Moeller Ch. 9 9 Team 8 Case Study -Case discussion - Case write up (presenting team) Written case feedback teams) 12 April 3, 2018 IT Ethics and Security Strategic Information Security Management Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Workplace Culture - Presentation of Final Research Project Report (10-15 min) Lane Ch. 25 Moeller Ch. 20 - - Project presentations 13 April 2018 Final Exam (exact date TBD) - - - -