Module Code - Title:
MI4007
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BUSINESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To illustrate the implications of viewing the organization as an information processing entity
To enable students to create and manipulate data and information for managerial reporting.
To highlight the social and economic theories underlying the development and use of information and knowledge in modern business.
To make students aware of the challenges of the opportunities and challenges of information in a global context.
Syllabus:
This course will introduce the student to information as a corporate resource; to the firm as an information processing entity; to the types of business systems platforms in support of- managerial and executive-level decision making and the coordination of business processes. It will show information management in the functional areas of business: accounting, marketing, human resources, operation.
It will provide an economic and social framework for understanding the nature and interaction of information, technology, people, and organizational components; the role of the Internet and networking technology in modern organization; the evolution of e-business and the transformation of organizations and markets; business systems as both constraining and enabling organizations; the relationship between business systems and an organizations social structure; information and knowledge as a strategic resource in organizations.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Explain the principles underpinning modern information technology
Discriminate between different types of management information systems, explain their applications and list the challenges and opportunities they present to modern organizations
Describe the application of electronic markets to the modern organization
Describe how the changes wrought upon organisations by information systems need to be managed.
Illustrate how firms' competitive advantage can be changed by information technologies.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Synthesize the theory and practice of information and knowledge management in an organisational and international context.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Not applicable
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module is delivered by a mixture of methods:
1) Formal Lectures
2) Laboratory assignments
3) Course Group Project
The students learning experience moves through dependent/directed learning based on lectures, texts/papers and audio visual material;through to independent learning sourced from application of material to real world situations through encouragement of wider reading and reflection.
Through the provision of laboratory problem sets and other exercises, students will be expected to proactively manage their learning experience and develop skills in independent learning.
The assessment is a mixture of lab based assignments of spreedsheet modelling and database design, a collaborative group project and final exam.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
1. Chaffey, D & S. Wood (2013)
) Business Information Management
, Pearson
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BAECSOUFA - Economics and Sociology
BBBUSTUFA - BUSINESS STUDIES
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
michaelp.obrien@ul.ie