Courses Master Display 2013-2014
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Course title | Cases in Management Information Systems | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course code | EBC4038 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECTS credits | 6,5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assessment | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Level | Intermediate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinator |
Mark Vluggen For more information: m.vluggen@maastrichtuniversity.nl |
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Language of instruction | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Goals |
This course provides an overview of how modern organisations employ information systems in their day-to-day practices. Real-life cases are combined with academic and popular business press literature. Students that have followed this course will:
Have a good overview of IT applications and how they are used in organisations; Be able to identify causal links between certain IT project/system features and the outcome (success/failure) of these projects/systems. Have developed their skills in analysing cases. |
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Description |
The course focuses on how organisation can use information systems to improve their performance. It will follow the case-based teaching method. The chosen cases - all from real life - reflect the breadth of the information systems field. The cases deal with issues such as:
-Resistance to change -Enterprise 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, prediction markets) -Outsourcing and offshoring - IT- investment prioritisation -The strategic use of information systems - Customer relationship management - The role of IT in mergers |
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Literature |
no textbook
reader available via ELEUM |
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Prerequisites |
Students should have followed one introductory course on management information systems (level comparable to the introductory course Management Information Systems.
An advanced level of English |
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Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) | PBL / Presentation / Lecture / Groupwork | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) | Final Paper / Participation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Evaluation in previous academic year | For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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