What kinds of information systems do we encounter in business and in our social lives? Systems in common use include: so called 'knowledge management' tools, e-commerce applications, online banking, social networking, specialist database services (libraries), e-enabled information services (weather, traffic, airport) etc.
Types of activities relating to the development, adoption, and use of information systems include: requirements, analysis, design, development, delivery, maintenance etc.
Topics covered in the blog should help you:
- Describe and characterise information technology and systems of use (e.g. some of the things mentioned above).
- Applying analytical frameworks to analyse instances of IT systems in organisations (e.g. theory from Marx, Morgan, Porter, etc).
- Familiarisation with knowledge related to IT and MIS applied to organisations generally (purchasing, logistics, payroll, HR, finance etc).
- Analyse and assess impact of emerging technologies (convergent devices, ubiquitous sensors, location based services, etc)
- Use and critique decision making models, tools and techniques.
- Spreadsheet competence.
- Trending technologies and the internet (e.g. consider the relationship between everything 'e' and entrepreneurship).
