This unit enables students to gain an understanding of the implications and impacts of the web revolution based on the basic principles of management information systems. The primary objective of this unit is to understand the concept of the digital economy, the impact business pressures play on the organisation and their responses and adaptations to these pressures and the role technology plays both inside and outside the organisation in the context of globalisation. The focus is on the creation of business value by enabling business processes through the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs). -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Yvette Blount
Prerequisites: ACCG611 or admission to MAdvProfAcc or MCorpGvnce prior to 2013 or admission to MCom or MIntBus or MEc or MActPrac prior to 2011