BMIS 2689 - Technology Enabled Business Transformation
From Information Systems at Pitt Business
| Technology Enabled Business Transformation | |
| BMIS 2569 | |
| Credits: | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites: | BMIS 2588 (which may be taken concurrently) or instructor permission |
IT Doesn’t Matter – it’s what you do with it.
Business in the 21st century runs on IT. However, competitive advantage seldom comes from having exclusive or proprietary access to a technology. It rather comes from more effectively utilizing technologies to which everyone – including the competition – has access.
The implications of this reality are many. First, it is necessary to understand what technologies are available in the marketplace and what their capabilities are. Next – and far more challenging -- it is necessary to understand how those capabilities might positively (or negatively) interact with business strategy. The capabilities of Information Technologies can certainly contribute to meeting a strategy, but it is also conceivable that those same capabilities could contribute to the necessity of changing a strategy.
Business Transformation has been defined as the alignment of process, people and technology such that it can both support and innovate business strategies. Given that technologies evolve and develop at a rather rapid pace, it is desirable for managers to develop skills that allow them to understand what technologies can do (both established and new) and how they might be leveraged to create real value.
Some of these skills include:
- How to assess a business area and recognize where process improvements can be made
- Requirements identification
- Request for proposal and vendor evaluation
- Preparing an implementation proposal
Using lecture and current case studies, this course will examine topics to help students develop those skills. These topics include:
- Transformation Strategies
- How Information Technology supports Business Transformation
- When to build and when to buy
- Business Analysis Techniques and how they fit in the transformation life cycle
- Process Modeling Techniques and how they fit in the transformation life cycle
- Enterprise Systems and their implementation issues
- Software development methodologies
