Management Information Systems

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label Diverse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:00 history_edu Ioana Dinescu
Today, because of the ever increasing role of Information Technology (IT) in an enterprise, Information systems (ISs) are not merely required for improving efficiency of business operations; rather these systems are used for effective business decisions and achieving strategic advantage.

Moreover, the functions of information systems are changing from a technology provider to a strategic partner; and thus all the student managers, irrespective of their majors, need to understand the concepts, issues and strategies to effectively deploy and manage ISs/IT. This course focuses on the concepts and issues pertaining to planning, deployment, management and applications of ISs/IT from a business perspective.

Period
03-07-2013 - 31-07-2013 (4 weeks)

Target group
Master's students



Course aim
The main objectives of the course are to provide the management student a broad understanding of: Information Systems (such as Transaction Processing systems, Decision Support systems, ExecutiveSupport systems, etc) from a Business Perspective Information System s Planning Key IT technologies, and the implications of these technologies for managers Identifying Information Requirements and Systems Analysis Issues in managing ISs/IT such as Enterprise Resources Planning( ERP), Supply Chain Management(SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Intelligence (BI) etc.

Credits
10.0 ECTS credits

Course fee
EUR 0: Students on a bilateral exchange programme do not have to pay. Freemovers are obliged to pay participation fees while tuition fees only apply to freemovers from countries outside the EU/EEA/Switzerland.

Course leader
D. P. Goyal, Management Development Institute, India

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