BP138 - Bachelor of Business (Business Information Systems)

Plan: BP138OS - Bachelor of Business (Business Information Systems)
Campus: RMIT Intl University Vietnam

Learning outcomes

Statement of capabilities

The program will allow you to develop both broad business and specific business information systems capabilities through experiential learning to meet the current and future expectations of employers. By applying real and relevant knowledge, the program is aimed to help you become a highly skilled, “well-rounded” ICT professional.

The BusInfoSys courses in the first year are designed to introduce you to the basic concepts that underpin the systems, information technology and application development areas of the program and help you develop the specific BIS capabilities as listed below in the BusInfoSys Specific Capability Matrix. These understandings are developed within an ethical framework throughout the program. You will be engaged in problem-based learning within a business context and will gain familiarity with a number of tools and techniques used by ICT professionals. Tutorials will encourage you to learn through informal communication and team-based learning; and provide you with study and learning skills development. The business common core courses help to develop your broad business capabilities as listed below in the Broad Business Capability Matrix.

The second year courses build on the foundations created in year 1, but seek also to allow you to integrate a number of concepts in business applications, thus increasing your specific BusInfoSys capabilities. The additional business common core courses in second year will widen and increase your broad business capabilities.

The final year of the program is considered the specialisation and consolidation year. You are encouraged to select general and professional electives that will allow you to specialise in an area of interest. The final year courses are designed to build on your knowledge and experiences of the first 2 years and prepare you for the next stage of your career as an ICT Professional.

The specific BusInfoSys capabilities that you will develop in the program are:

1. Business Information Systems Development
2. Business Systems Integration
3. Creative Business Solutions
4. Business Systems Infrastructure
5. Project Management
6. Professional Practice
7. Interpersonal Skills Development
8. Tools and Techniques Application
9. Tolerance for Ambiguity
10. Management of IS in a Global Business Context

Each BIS course includes a number of these capabilities, building on your previous development. These capabilities, addressed by each BusInfoSys course, are listed in the BusInfoSys Specific Capability Matrix.

The Business Common Core courses will also provide you with the opportunity to develop an additional set of broad business capabilities as follows:

1. Reflective practice: ability to reflect on experiences, employ conceptual frameworks, to relate these to similar and dissimilar contexts, to inform and improve future practice.
2. Analyse different types of problems, the contexts in which they exist and develop and apply solutions based on approaches you have learned in your studies.
3. Use the technical tools and language of the field.
4. Express ideas, concepts and arguments logically and coherently in accordance with accepted standards of academic writing.
5. Recognise the uncertainty of business decision-making.
6. Identify, understand, distinguish and interpret basic business concepts.

Each Business Common Core course addresses a number of these broad business capabilities as specified in the Broad Business Capability Matrix below.

BysInfoSys Specific Capabilities

1.    Business IS Development
Ability to analyse,  design, develop, implement and manage single, multi-user and distributed systems using a range of tools and techniques, across a range of business contexts to meet various stakeholders’ requirements.

2.    Business Systems Integration
Ability to develop robust, user-friendly systems that integrate across new and existing business processes, structures, applications, enterprise-wide systems and  IT architectures within a global context.

3.    Creative Business Solutions
Ability to critically analyse and synthesise creative and effective solutions to a range of problem/opportunity situations that add value to the business and its stakeholders.

4.    Business Systems Infrastructure
Ability to develop secure, flexible, information and communication architectures that support the changing needs of the business.

5.    Project Management
Ability to manage the total management process associated with the development and enhancement of information systems with a critical appreciation of the relationship between systems development, and the management of time, cost, quality, and change management, within the organisational contexts of governance, cultural and ethical issues.

6.    Professional Practice
Ability to frame judgements and work practice within professional, legal and ethical frameworks.

7.    Interpersonal Skills Development
Ability to engage with others in culturally diverse and technically complex situations. The cluster of interpersonal skills is addressed in every course at various levels within the program.  It is also recognised that sustainable development in global organisations requires the development of life-long learning skills and effective project team membership.

8.    Tools and Techniques Application
Ability to apply the most appropriate tool and/or technique for the situation at hand.

9.    Tolerance for Ambiguity
Ability to recognise the uncertainty of business decision-making due to the dynamic, global context businesses operate in.

10.    Management of IS in a Global Business Context
Ability to align strategic business objectives with the development and governance of business information systems.

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