Course Title: Business Systems Culture

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Business Systems Culture

Credit Points: 12


Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

ISYS2419

City Campus

Undergraduate

620H Business IT and Logistics

Face-to-Face

 Sem 2 2009,
Sem 2 2010

Course Coordinator: John Lenarcic

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 99251605

Course Coordinator Email:John.Lenarcic@rmit.edu.au


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

ISYS1040 Business Information Systems 2 is advisable. However, no essential prerequisites are required for this course, although potential students should have some understanding about technical issues regarding Information Systems.


Course Description

Seminar-based in delivery, this course examines how business information systems change society for better or worse. Human communication is being altered by technologies such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, not to mention text messaging as well. YouTube enables individuals to become broadcasters. Blogger gives everyone the power to be a journalist and report news. Google has become a source of global knowledge, with its search engine turning us all into hunter-gatherers of information. Business Systems Culture is about the influence of technology on people and commerce.

As professionals-in-training it is important that students are able to critically interpret and assess the human issues underpinning all aspects of the software development process. This course provides an examination of the theoretical and practical knowledge of behavioural factors in business systems development from three distinct perspectives: historical, cognitive and ethical.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Upon successfully completing Business Systems Culture you will be able to:

  • appraise the behavioural and organisational aspects of system development from a variety of cognitive and cultural dimensions
  • classify the structure and composition of an effective systems development team with respect to the social interplay of people, practices and development environments
  • critically analyse the system development literature dealing with empirical studies from both a theoretical and a methodological perspective
  • interpret the historical, ethical, political and social impact of business systems


Upon successfully completing Business Systems Culture you will be able to:

  • research and document well-reasoned arguments in the above areas
  • engage in critical thought and formulate well-researched opinions regarding Information Systems
  • persuasively communicate your ideas on these matter to other people
  • think in both a philosophical and practical manner


Overview of Learning Activities

Assessment for Business Systems Cultures will include a selection of individual research papers, group-based research reports and class presentations. There is no final examination in this course.


Overview of Learning Resources

To be supplied in the ISYS2419 course guide available via the RMIT distributed learning system


Overview of Assessment

To be supplied in the ISYS2419 course guide available via the RMIT distributed learning system