Course detail
Strategic Management of Information Systems
FIT-SRIAcad. year: 2017/2018
Management of information systems, services and resources. Solving of the strategic questions and role of the informatics as the basic competitiveness of a company in the information society. Analysis of ICT use given the corresponding economic and non-economic benefits. Main subjects are focused on the strategic management in relation to business management.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- Understanding of the role and function of the information system in relation to business goals, understanding of the mutual relations among the different types of the company strategies (business, information, knowledge management, IT).
- Development of the knowledge and experiences in IS/IT domain with respect to the possibilities in use of the most newest knowledge and practices in business sphere.
- Introduction to IS description possibilities according to various points of view (SOA, MDA, etc.).
- Introduction to the basic standards for business informatics management - ITIL and COBIT.
- IS/IT security understanding, especially variants of IS protection and protection of information stored in the IS.
- Business process/services modeling techniques understanding (ARIS Designer).
- Knowledge of IS development methods/methodologies with focus on actual needs of business domain.
- Introduction to Business Continuity Management.
- Understanding of IS/IT auditing with aim of a better interconnection and usage in practice.
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Course curriculum
- Syllabus of lectures:
- Introduction to strategic management of IS/ICT and business modeling.
- Process management.
- Business Process Reengineering.
- Methods, techniques and standards of business process modeling.
- IT Governence: Introduction to ITIL, COBIT / SIX SIGMA
- Service Oriented Architectures.
- Software as a Service ((SaaS).
- Sourcing strategies and optimization of the company IS/ICT (in-house, outsourcing, ASP).
- Effectiveness of IS/ICT (IS/ICT metrics - performance, costs and benefit.
- IS/IT Security - basic concepts, security in context of strategic management.
- IS/IT Security - II.
- Business Continuity Management.
- IS/IT Audit.
- Introduction to ARIS IT Designer, principles of the use (definitions, occurrence of the objects, ARIS repository...)
- Modeling of the processes and IT
- Students work separately (an individual project)
- They analyze and model the chosen process in ARIS IT Designer
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme IT-MSC-2 Master's
branch MMI , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch MBI , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MSK , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MMM , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MBS , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MPV , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch MIS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional