IS 8090:Leveraging Information Systems in Business

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Full admission to the MBA program or permission of the program director.
In this introduction course, students learn the principles, applications and management of computer information systems. Criteria to assess the value, risks, and costs associated with computer information systems and how these technologies bring measurable strategic and tactical advantages are analyzed. Issues relating to successful organizational adoption as well as ethical, moral, social, and legal aspects of computer information systems in business processes are discussed. Business cases bolster the theories from text and provide real-world contexts for exploration, understanding and analysis of strategic objectives including those relating to successful implementation of computer information systems in ERP, Supply Chain, CRM, and E-business.