Topics in the course include:

• Information technology in business
• Measurement of business performance
• Risk management and security
• Interrelationships of information systems
• The coming of the new organisation
• The challenge of change
• Managing people
• Information management technologies
• Convergence of technologies
• Work towards completing

Assignments include:

• Critically analyse information security and security investments for a given business scenario
• Critically analyse success factors and constraints for a given business scenario
• Apply information management principle
• Analyse the organisational structure and information flow
• Assess the impact of organisational culture on information management
• Assess the advantages and disadvantages of systems integration
• Recommend an appropriate technology solution
• Analyse human resource requirements
• Use a report format with clear writing style and presentation
• Research and gather background information for a pre-audit
• Understood the purpose of an information audit and its relation to information policy and strategy
• Propose and justify a methodology for the audit
• Propose a plan for the information audit
• Provide a plan to conduct the information audit
• Communicate a thorough understanding and implications of the information audit