Informatics: Strategic Management and Information Systems

This course aims to help you respond to the challenges of the information revolution. How can companies use information technology to stay ahead? What strategies work best to make the most of new technology? How do competitors' actions affect your own decisions? With so many ways to invest in IT, which ones should businesses focus on first?

To answer these questions, you need to see that information technology is more than just computers. Today, IT encompasses the information that businesses create and use, as well as a wide spectrum of increasingly convergent and linked technologies that process information. This includes not only computers but also data recognition equipment, communications technologies, factory automation, and other hardware and services.

Course literature

The course literature listed may be updated up to eight weeks before the course begins.

You will learn about and work on the following themes: 

• Introduction – strategy and information technology
• Using information technology for competitive advantage
• Creating and sustaining competitive advantage with information technology
• Formulation of information systems strategies
• Implementing information technology strategy
• Strategy and organisation

The course is built around lectures, exciting guest lectures and practical hours where you are able to engage, innovate, and make important strategic decisions. Your will apply your knowledge through individual assignments, case papers and a take-home exam.

Prerequisites

Completed courses corresponding to SYSA21 Informatics: Introduction to Information Systems, 30 ECTS credits, SYSB13 Information Systems: IS and Business Development, 30 ECTS credits, SYSK16 Informatics: Bachelor Degree Project (Thesis), 15 ECTS credits and in addition 15 ECTS credits in Informatics/Information Systems at Bachelor level. English course 6/B.