IT 201 - Information Technology I

Objectives

The goal of this course is to help business students learn how to use and manage increasingly complex information technologies to revitalize business processes, improve business decision making, and gain competitive advantage. The course emphasizes the essential role of Internet technologies in providing a platform for business, commerce, and collaboration processes among all business stakeholders in networked enterprises and global markets.

Students will be equipped with the principles of information technology required to understand and implement future advancements in technology, such as how computers function, how the various components are classified, and how to evaluate technology, software applications and systems software.

Students discover the underlying structure of important business programs and how, when and where to optimally deploy various programs. They also discover the importance of sharing information among different applications of an office suite and how to optimally structure and organize data.

The course begins by laying the foundations of information technology and then introduces the key technologies of software, hardware, data resource management and networks. The main body of the course deals with business applications and IT solutions development.

Common business software applications are also covered such as text processing, spread sheet calculation, business graphics and personal information management.

Content

• Foundation Concepts
  
• Foundations of Information Systems in Business
• Foundation Concepts: Information Systems in Business
• Foundation Concepts: The Components of Information Systems
• Competing With Information Technology
• Fundamentals of Strategic Advantage
• Using Information Technology for Strategic Advantage
  
  
• Information Technologies
• Computer Hardware
• Computer Systems: End User and Enterprise Computing
• Computer Peripherals: Input, Output, and Storage Technologies
• Computer Software
• Application Software: End User Applications
• System Software: Computer System Management
• Data Resource Management
• Technical Foundations of Database Management
• Managing Data Resources
• Telecommunications and Networks
• The Networked Enterprise
• Telecommunications Network Alternatives
  
  
• Business Applications
• Electronic Business Systems
• Enterprise Business Systems
• Functional Business Systems
• Electronic Commerce Systems
• Electronic Commerce Fundamentals
• e-Commerce Applications and Issues
• Decision Support Systems
• Decision Support in Business
• Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Business
  
  
• Development Processes
• Developing Business/IT Solutions
• Developing Business Systems
• Implementing Business Systems
  
  
• Management Challenges
• Security and Ethical Challenges
• Security, Ethical, and Societal Challenges of IT
• Security Management of Information Technology
• Enterprise and Global Management of Information Technology
• Managing Information Technology
• Managing Global IT