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ISQS 5231 – Section 1. Syllabus. ISQS 5231 (Section 1) – IT for Managers. Instructor: Name: Dr. Qing Cao Office: BA 615 Office Hour: Wednesday: 12:30 pm -1:15 am or by appointment Office Phone: (806) 742-3919 Fax: (806) 742-3193
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ISQS 5231 – Section 1 Syllabus
ISQS 5231 (Section 1) – IT for Managers Instructor: Name: Dr. Qing Cao Office: BA 615 Office Hour: Wednesday: 12:30 pm -1:15 am or by appointment Office Phone: (806) 742-3919 Fax: (806) 742-3193 E-mail Address: qing.cao@ttu.edu (highly recommended) Class website http://qcao.ba.ttu.edu/Fall11/ISQS5231Sec1.htm
ISQS 5231 – IT for Managers Textbook: • Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases, 8th Edition by Lynda M Applegate, Robert D. Austin, Deborah L Soule. ISBN: 0073402931 / 9780073402932.
ISQS 5231 – IT for Managers Course Description: • The course takes the perspective of the business managers as opposed to that of the IT expert. The perspective views IT at the product line, business unit, and corporate levels and addresses interactions among these levels.
Course Objectives • Strategies using IT to achieve and maintain competitive advantage, • Ability to assess the health of an organization’s IT activity, • Effects of IT on market structure and industry dynamics, • IT driven evolution of business models, • IT impact on organizational management, • Prioritization of IT investments,
Course Objectives (Continued) • Processes of organizational learning and knowledge management, • Decisions of buy (outsource) versus build, • Roles of key stakeholders in an organization’s IT activities, • Protection of IT assets and risk management, • Opportunities and threats of rapid IT innovations.