IFN561 Enterprise Systems Lifecycle Management

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

This is a transitionary unit, providing students with fundamental information systems skills relating to different practices in managing information systems in large, enterprise-level organisations. Information systems and enterprises are becoming inextricably interwoven. It has become nearly impossible to talk meaningfully about enterprises that are not dependent on information systems of one type or another. 

An important role of managers is to understand what type of information system they should use to achieve the business strategic objectives or to improve existing business capabilities. This unit provides students with fundamental skills that business analysts or IT managers are required to have in order to be able to analyse business strategies, evaluate how information systems may enable enterprises to achieve strategic objectives, and understand how such an information system can be developed and implemented within an enterprise. 

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Explain the technical and socio-economic foundations of enterprise systems and their use in different corporate settings.
2. Recommend and justify a range of IT strategies to address the limitations and barriers of an organisation enterprise system.
3. Communicate effectively in professional and scholarly contexts to a variety of stakeholders.
4. Analyse technology trends relating to enterprise systems.
5. Analyse a real-world case study to explain how service management facilitates continuous improvement in enterprise systems.
6. Collaborate with others in a team environment to deliver an outcome for a client.

Content

Learning Approaches

The unit consists of weekly lectures and tutorials. You will engage in collaborative activities to identify, analyse, present and report on challenges and solutions to business IT systems. This unit engages you in your learning through a real-world case-based learning approach, where you will have the chance to apply information systems skills while exploring business cases, emerging technologies, and challenges in deploying and using enterprise systems. We emphasise a real-world learning experience, where you can build up and deepen your enterprise information systems proficiency by contributing existing knowledge and experiences from your professional background in projects that form the assessments of this unit.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Tutorials are designed to be engaging, with tutors providing ongoing feedback on tutorials and assessment pieces.

• Consultation times can be booked with members of the teaching team throughout the teaching period.
• Individualised written feedback will be provided on marked assessments.
• Feedback will also be provided to the cohort based on common areas for improvements identified throughout the tutorials.

Assessment

Overview

You will design a solution proposal and prepare a request for proposal to implement a new information system. Further, analysing an enterprise systems implementation will extend your skills in project requirements.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Solution Proposal

The encompassing idea of this assessment is to propose a strategy to solve a problem in an organisation. By completing this assessment, you will develop your understanding of how organisations can design strategies and plan for enterprise systems to address problems in large, enterprise-level organisations. In addition to performing these activities, you will be required to orally pitch your overall approach in week 6.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Assessment: Request for Proposal

In this assessment, you will prepare a request for proposal (RFP), which will provide a comprehensive description of the approach to be taken to develop a new information system. In addition to performing these activities, you will be required to orally pitch your overall approach in week 9.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Assessment: Enterprise Systems Lifecycle Analysis

In this assessment, you will extend your skills by explaining and evaluating different approaches of an enterprise systems implementation. You will be required to use the 7-step improvement process to explain aspects of service management and lifecycle development. In addition to performing these activities, you will be required to submit the slides of your presentation in week 12.

The assessment requires a student’s physical or virtual presence to complete.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

There are no unusual health or safety risks associated with this unit.