INFOSYS 737 : Adaptive Enterprise Systems

Business and Economics

2021 Semester Two (1215) (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

INFOSYS 737 "Adaptive Enterprise Systems" is a capstone experience about recommending procedural and technological responses to support an adaptive intelligent enterprise. The student is required to mould, architect, recommend, and iteratively justify an appropriate adaptive climate to their selected enterprise. The course attempts to simulate adaptive strategy formation; interweaving strategic, tactical and operational levels of business analysis within their course work. The course's hollistic grasp would be attractive to future business leaders, managers and executives that employ adaptive decision making across organisations. Further, the introduction of three software packages (Stella, AIMMS, and SPSS Modeler) broadens the capstone experience to multiple technological stacks. Upon finishing the assignment, an excellent coursework can serve as a testament to a capacity for adaptive intelligent enterprise thinking and decision making, which is paramount in the business world.

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. Justify (a) the need for adaptation and sustainability and (b) fundamental principles of adaptation and sustainability from a variety of disciplines. (Capability 1, 2 and 4.3)
  2. Communicate (a) how enterprises can adapt and be sustainable and (b) various perspectives on architecting an adaptive sustainable intelligent enterprise. (Capability 2, 3 and 4.1)
  3. 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, 4.1 and 6)
  4. Conduct and report a business analysis of an enterprise’s vision, industry, strategy, value chain, processes, services, systems and applications. (Capability 2, 3 and 5.1)
  5. Recognise and suggest 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 in response to dynamically growing environments and disruptive changes. (Capability 2, 3 and 4.2)
  6. Demonstrate and recommend the appropriate technological architecture, infrastructure, and mechanisms to sustain and adapt an enterprise’s processes and systems i.e. databases, data mining, big data, visualisations, software, hardware, networks, programs, cloud, social, mobile, IoT; as well as systems development and project management methodologies, to bring about sustainable transformation and adapt to disruptive changes. (Capability 3, 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
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.

Delivery Mode

Campus Experience

Attendance is expected at scheduled activities including labs and assignment clinics to complete components of the course.
Lectures and labs will be available as recordings.
Attendance on campus is required for the exam.
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable.

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

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.

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 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.

Learning Continuity

In the event of an unexpected disruption we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the University Website for information about how to proceed.

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 04/12/2020 10:54 a.m.