This unit was developed as part of the restructure of the BITS carried out as part of the IT faculty review in 2010. It is a core level 2 unit in the Enterprise Information Management major of the BITS.

October 2015: Replacement of 2-hour lecture with 1-hour seminar; increase of tutorial time from 2 to 3 hours. Done because the unit material is easier to teach and easier for students to engage with when presented in a more interactive teaching format

30/11/2017 - Unit disestablished at FEC 5/17 Item 7.3.

This unit is one of the four core units in the Enterprise Information Management major which was introduced as part of the BITS review in 2010. These four core units in the major - FIT1036, FIT1037, FIT2074 and FIT2075 - address fundamental concepts in organizations, information, technology and the development of strategies for information management and systems acquisition and implementation. They aim to provide students with a grounding in the basic concepts and key themes which underly the content of the later units in the major. The units incorporate elements of FIT1003 and the level 1 and level 2 introductory units in the previous IM and IS majors. In place of the narrower discipline-based focus of those units, they blend the approaches of the two disciplines to provide a broader overview of key issues relating to organizational information needs, and the capabilities and limitations of IT-based applications to satisfy them.

The purpose of this unit is to build on the basic concepts of organizational needs for information and IT applications developed in FIT1036, and examine the ways in which organizations approach the task of satisfying these needs. The unit brings together two areas relating to ways in which organizations develop and implement strategies for the deployment and use of information as an organizational resource. One of them deals with the development of strategies for information management, and the other with the processes for acquisition, development and implementation of information systems. These two areas have previously been taught separately under the banners of IM and IS, and this unit aims to integrate them within the overall context of organizational management of information assets. This will provide students with a suitable context for later units which focus on specific topics in information management and systems development and implementation. The coverage of systems development topics will serve to complement FIT2001; where that unit provides an in-depth coverage of development techniques within a specific development approach, this unit will give a broader perspective on a range of alternative approaches to system development and acquisition. Much of the content for the unit will come from existing units in the IM and IS majors, particularly FIT1020, FIT2051 and FIT2054.

On the completion of this unit, students will:

020399

This unit provides students with an introduction to the key concepts and principles involved in the management of information assets as a key organizational resource. Information assets and the information systems which create and use them are of critical importance to the operations of most modern organizations. The unit examines two main themes: the development and implementation of organizational approaches to the management of its information assets, and organizational approaches to the acquisition and development of information systems. As well as addressing the separate sets of issues specific to each of these themes, it will focus on the interactions between them and their implications for development of an integrated approach to organizational information management.

On-campus

Examination (3 hours): 60%; in-semester assessment: 40%

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

Tutorial classes should precede lecture

FIT

FIT1036 or FIT1003