BMIS 2801 - Business Value and Information Technology
From Information Systems at Pitt Business
| Information Technology and Business Value | |
| BMIS 2801 | |
| Credits: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites: | None |
This executive MBA course provides an overview of Information Technology (IT), with special emphasis on application of frameworks and analysis tools to the student executives’ firms. The course takes a strategic focus and points to decisions that executives quite often make about IT, either deliberately or by omission. This "view from 30,000 feet" is intended to emphasize millions of dollars rather than day-to-day decisions. Strategic frameworks and analytical processes win out over programming and the use of tools. By analyzing several business cases, we focus on competitive advantage and the potential to shape a marketplace. Topics that are covered include strategic models, organizational impacts, the design of work and business processes, IT architecture and infrastructure, electronic commerce, structure and functions of an IT department, and how projects are managed. An innovation assignment allows student executives to propose a technological innovation and compete with others in their group to expand the innovation idea into a full project that is explored deeply by the group. In the past, many students have pursued these projects and turned them into real contributions to their firms.
