INFOSYS 110 : Business Systems

Business and Economics

2020 Semester One (1203) (15 POINTS)

Course Prescription

Explores how information systems and operations management help organisations to innovate, optimise and deliver value. Examines how the interaction of business, systems, and technologies bring about organisational transformation. Develops the ability to conduct a business analysis of an organisation's vision, industry, strategy, value chain, processes, and systems.

Course Overview

Information Systems have the potential to deliver business value by strategically managing, coordinating, and controlling organisations. Students will explore how Information Systems support transactional, decisional, and collaborative business processes by capturing, processing, storing, and distributing information. Students will also learn about systems to manage the enterprise, customers, and suppliers. Ultimately we want to educate, inspire, and empower tomorrow’s leaders to create and apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges and opportunities.

Course Requirements

No pre-requisites or restrictions

Capabilities Developed in this Course

Capability 1: Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice
Capability 2: Critical Thinking
Capability 3: Solution Seeking
Capability 4: Communication and Engagement
Capability 5: Independence and Integrity
Capability 6: Social and Environmental Responsibilities
Graduate Profile: Bachelor of Commerce

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Explain how information systems, operations management and business analytics help organisations to innovate, optimise, and thereby deliver sustainable value. (Capability 1, 5.2 and 6)
  2. Analyse a business case and recommend appropriate technological and strategic solutions to common business problems. (Capability 1, 2 and 3)
  3. Demonstrate competence in using contemporary business productivity tools such as spreadsheets. (Capability 1 and 5.1)
  4. Demonstrate an ability to solve basic computational and design problems using a programming language. (Capability 1, 5.1 and 5.2)
  5. Demonstrate the capacity to solve common business and social problems individually, and, as part of a team. (Capability 3, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Assignments 22% Individual Coursework
Tutorials 10% Individual Coursework
Presentation 3% Group Coursework
Test 20% Individual Test
Exam 45% Individual Examination
Assessment Type Learning Outcome Addressed
1 2 3 4 5
Assignments
Tutorials
Presentation
Test
Exam

Students must PASS the exam AND get more than 50% overall in order to pass.

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.

For each week in this course, you can expect 2 hours of lectures, a 1 hour tutorial, 4 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 3 hours of work on assignments and/or test preparation.

Other Information

Active participation is essential, and students will be expected to master material assigned in readings and presented in class. In particular, students are expected to:
1. Gain knowledge about information systems through reading, researching, self-learning, and attending lectures and tutorials;
2. comprehend how information systems deliver business value through engagement in class and in tutorials;
3. apply their knowledge of information systems to the business world and reinforce the underlying business and problem solving processes through self-learning, tutorials, games, an assignment, a test, and an exam;
4. analyse, evaluate, and critique real world cases in class, tutorials, homework, assignment, test, and exam;
5. synthesise the knowledge gained and develop information systems designs and solutions in tutorials, homework, and assignment;
6. work in groups to produce reports in written, oral and videoed formats; and
7. obtain feedback from the lecturer, tutors, and peers.

Digital Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website at http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter (https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html).

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.

Published on 29/02/2020 09:24 p.m.