Module Code - Title:
CS4925
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BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 1
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module has two key objectives: 1) to introduce students to Information Technology/Information Systems in the overall business/social context and 2) to develop a more critical perspective on the role of IT/IS in society.
Syllabus:
- Business Information Technology/Systems: Brief Historical Perspective; Review of Terminology; Taxonomy of Information Systems.
- Social Context: Socio Technical Environment; Defining the Socio Technical Environment (Individual, Group, Organisation and Society); Understanding and Capturing the Socio-Technical Environment.
- Organisational Context: Information Systems Planning and Strategy; Developing an Information Technology Plan; The Role of Managers in Technology Planning; Planning as Emergent.
- Market Context: High Technology Customer Behavior; Customer Decision Process; Lead Users; Business Information Technology Adoption; The Origins and Development of Innovation Diffusion Theory; Technology Adoption Life Cycle.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
1. Explain how IS/IT is relevant to business.
2. Evaluate and explain how social and technical factors interact in IT implementation in a business context.
3. Differentiate among the specific types of information sytem that are implemeted in organisations and what information needs they serve.
4. Know how to conduct IS planning and analysis for an information system.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
1. Appreciate the complexity of technology implementation in a business and social context.
2. Critique the potentially negative impacts of technological determinism.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Prime Texts:
Geoff Walsham (1993)
Interpreting Information Systems in Organisations
, Wiley Series in Information Systems
J. Holmstrom and F. Stalder (2001)
Drifting technologies and multi-purpose networks: the case of the Swedish cashcard
, Information and Organization, Volume 11, Number 3, July 2001 , pp. 187-206(20)
C. Middleton (1995)
A Tale of Two Systems? Success and Failure in a Single Information System Implementation
, Proceedings of the First Americas Conference on Information Systems, p47-49
R. D. Galliers (2004)
Reflections on information systems strategizing. The social study of information and communication technology: Innovation, actors and contexts
, C. Avgerou, D. Diborra and F. Land (editors), Oxford, Oxford University Press: 231-262
Geoffrey A. Moore (1999)
Inside the Tornado and Crossing the Chasm
, New York: Harper Business
D. Robey (1995)
Theories that explain contradiction: accounting for contradictory organizational consequences of information technology
, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems, Amsterdam
H. Mintzberg (1987)
The Strategy Concept: Five Ps for Strategy
, Californian Business Review, Vol. 30, Issue 1
E. Von Hippel (2002)
Lead Users: An Important Source of Novel Product Concepts
, Management Science, 32, no 7, p791-805
Clayton M. Christensen (1997)
The Innovators Dilemma
, McGraw-Hill
W. Orlikowski and S. Iacono (2000)
The Truth is Not Out There: An Enacted View of the Digital Economy
, In E. Brynjolfsson and B. Kahin (editors), Understanding the Digital Economy, MIT Press, Boston MA
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Module Leader:
eoin.e.oconchuir@ul.ie