Courses None Display 2014-2015
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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 |
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 |
This course is entirely based on company cases and focuses on how organisations can use information systems to improve their performance. The chosen cases - all from real life - reflect the breadth of the information systems field. The cases deal with issues such as:
- Customer relationship management (CRM) - Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems - IT-investment prioritisation - Healthcare IT - Resistance to change - Enterprise 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, prediction markets) - RFID technology - The business-IT gap - The strategic use of information systems - Information systems failure - The role of IT in mergers - Online reputation systems - Online marketing - IT startups and entrepreneurship |
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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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| Evaluation in previous academic year | For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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