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COIS13034 - Information Systems Management

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit integrates technology and business management within a modern enterprise environment and shows how IT can be used for strategic advantage. Students in this unit will learn how to manage change and to use technology, people, and processes to implement effective, ethically balanced, and innovative technological solutions. The techniques students learn can be directly applied by graduates to real organisations.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: 96 Credit points

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2014

Term 1 - 2017 Profile
Brisbane
Distance
Melbourne
Sydney
Term 1 - 2018 Profile
Brisbane
Cairns
Distance
Melbourne
Sydney
Term 1 - 2019 Profile
Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Sydney
Term 1 - 2020 Profile
Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Sydney
Term 1 - 2021 Profile
Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Sydney
Term 1 - 2022 Profile
Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Sydney
Term 1 - 2023 Profile
Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Sydney
Term 1 - 2024 Profile
Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Sydney

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 30%
2. Presentation 20%
3. Examination 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 85.71% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 25.00% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Unit Coordinator's reflection
Feedback
To reduce dependency on IBM Cloud, the unit may incorporate content related to AWS or Azure cloud computing environment.
Recommendation
Investigate to determine a pathway to integrate content related to AWS or Azure.
Action Taken
In Term 1, 2023, the Azure cloud was introduced in lectures, tutorials, and assessments.
Source: Reflection from Co-lecturer and Unit Coordinators
Feedback
Streamline lecture content further with the updated version of laboratory content
Recommendation
The lecture content will be reviewed and updated to streamline with laboratory activities.
Action Taken
Several lectures are updated with content relevant to Azure cloud and laboratory activities.
Source: Student and Unit Teaching Evaluations
Feedback
Some of the lab tutorials or PDFs are outdated as cloud computing environments are continuously evolving.
Recommendation
The instructions and video tutorials will be checked and updated at the start of every term to improve learning materials.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: External Review
Feedback
The requirements for assignment two and assignment three can be improved.
Recommendation
The external review feedback will be implemented by introducing a presentation in assignment two or three. Furthermore, assignments two and three requirements will be reviewed and improved.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Evaluate the major role of IT in providing enterprises with strategic advantage
  2. Appraise the integral role of information systems in facilitating competitiveness, effectiveness, profitability, compliance, and ethics
  3. Discriminate between the strategic and practical impacts of management and operations support systems and the integration of enterprise systems
  4. Construct effective solutions to manage organisational change being brought about by the Web-driven transformations
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of current and upcoming advancements in Web-driven networked computing and their likely future directions
  6. Measure the implications of the impact of Information Technology on organisations, individuals, and society
  7. Critically analyse and evaluate real world business situations for creating innovative and ethically balanced IT solutions for business problems
  8. Employ written and verbal communications tools, both in digital and non-digital modes, to clearly and effectively present and promote (or compose or formulate) your ideas and solutions
  9. Collaborate effectively in a team to achieve set tasks by applying key project management principles

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment • • • • • • • •
2 - Presentation • • • •
3 - Examination • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • • • •
2 - Problem Solving • • • • • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • •
5 - Team Work •
6 - Information Technology Competence • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence •
8 - Ethical practice • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Written Assessment • • • • • • •
2 - Presentation • • • • • • • •
3 - Examination • • •