INFOSYS 737 : Adaptive Enterprise Systems

Business and Economics

2020 Semester Two (1205) (15 POINTS)

Course Prescription

Enterprises competing in contemporary dynamic markets must respond to the ever-increasing rates of change in a sustainable manner. Focuses on integrated cross-functional enterprise systems how they can be leveraged and enhanced to support adaptive and sustainable enterprises. A range of areas including Context-aware strategy/change/process/risk/performance management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Cloud Computing, Analytics, and Mobility will be discussed holistically.

Course Overview

The goals of the course are to introduce students to:
a) What it means to be an adaptive and sustainable enterprise
b) How to architect an adaptive sustainable intelligent enterprise
c) Procedural and technological responses towards sustainable adaptation

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

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Understand (a) the need for adaptation and sustainability and (b) fundamental principles of adaptation and sustainability from a variety of disciplines. (Capability 1, 4.1 and 4.3)
  2. Understand (a) how enterprises can adapt and be sustainable and (b) various perspectives on architecting an adaptive sustainable intelligent enterprise. (Capability 1, 2, 3, 4.1 and 4.3)
  3. Understand discuss, and reflect on procedural and technological mechanisms/responses to adapt and sustain an enterprise; deliberate as well as emergent; rational and anarchical; and balancing on the edge of chaos. (Capability 2, 3, 4.1, 4.3 and 6)
  4. Understand and be able to conduct a business analysis of an enterprise’s vision, industry, strategy, value chain, processes, services, systems and applications. (Capability 2, 3 and 5.1)
  5. Understand and recommend the appropriate systems landscape (to support an enterprise’s processes) i.e. transaction processing, decision support, collaboration, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM) systems. (Capability 2, 3 and 4.2)
  6. Understand and recommend the appropriate technological architecture and infrastructure (to support an enterprise’s processes and systems) i.e. databases, data mining, big data, visualisations, software, hardware, networks, programs, cloud, social, mobile, and IoT. (Capability 2, 3 and 4.2)
  7. Understand and recommend the various mechanisms that could be leveraged to bring about the sustainable transformation of an enterprise, i.e. systems development and project management methodologies, the process of adapting to sustaining and disruptive changes. (Capability 2, 4.2 and 6)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Iteration 1 – Proposal Individual Coursework
Iteration 2 – Analysis 11% Individual Coursework
Iteration 3 – Design 14% Individual Coursework
Iteration 4 – Implementation 25% Individual Coursework
Research Paper 10% Individual Coursework
Final Exam 40% Individual Examination
Assessment Type Learning Outcome Addressed
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Iteration 1 – Proposal
Iteration 2 – Analysis
Iteration 3 – Design
Iteration 4 – Implementation
Research Paper
Final Exam

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 this course, you can expect 36 hours of lectures, 16 hours of lab/tutorials, 24 hours of preparatory reading and thinking about the content and 74 hours of work on assignments and/or exam preparation.

Learning Resources

A number of readings and supplemental material will be distributed in class as needed. Students are also advised to take advantage of the extensive software resources made available for this course:
  1. Vision2Action
  2. SAP Solution Map Composer
  3. ARIS
  4. SAP ERP
  5. SAP Solution Manager
  6. AIMMS
  7. Stella
  8. SPSS Modeller

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 09/07/2020 12:00 p.m.