Business Information Systems

Overview

This unit enables students to analyse and articulate how technology can be used to assist business, without the technology becoming an end in itself. In particular, the unit aims to develop an appreciation for the importance of information to decision-making and how to provide such information to ensure its usefulness to the decision makers. Students gain a strong foundation of business systems fundamentals and are able to evaluate the influence of the Internet on business stakeholders; customers, suppliers, manufacturers, service makers, regulators, managers and employees.

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Analyse how data-driven and emerging technology-enabled approaches reshape organisational information systems, including evaluation of ethical, legal, and risk implications
2. Critically evaluate information systems strategies that support digital transformation and business value creation in complex organisational contexts
3. Design high-level information system approaches aligned with organisational strategy, enhancing user trust, transparency, and organisational effectiveness
4. Assess different organisational configurations enabled by information systems, including platform-based environments, and their governance requirements
5. Collaborate effectively in teams to formulate and communicate information systems-enabled strategies that support organisational transformation and competitive positioning

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Organisations in the digital economy
• Information Systems (IS): their evolution to current role and purpose in business & society
• Strategic review of purposes of commercial business, organisational requirements for Information Systems
• Data and information management in the digital economy; Ethical, legal and security issues; Databases, and their importance to contemporary business
• Role of information systems in digital organisations
• Data infrastructure and data-driven organisational capabilities
• Enterprise systems and process integration (including AI-enabled capabilities)
• Digital transformation models and organisational change
• Information systems strategy in digital environments
• Business models in data-driven organisations
• Overview of platform-based organisations