Management information systems

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Universidade da Coruña International Summer School 2016
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Monday, 11 July 2016 to Friday, 29 July 2016
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Aims and scope: 

This couse aims to provide an in-depth exploration of how businesses successfully manage information. The course provides insight into how today's businesses leverage information technologies and systems to achieve corporate objectives. Providing comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies and information system applications, as well as their impact on business models and managerial decision-making, with the help of this course, students will build skills sought after in today's workplace. Later on, they will be able to understand, participate in, and eventually lead management discussions and drive decisions about their firm's information systems.

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1: Business Information Systems in Your Career. 2: Global E-business and Collaboration. 3: Achieving Competitive Advantage with Information Systems. 4: Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems. 5: IT Infrastructure: Hardware and Software. 6: Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management. 7: Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology. 8: Securing Information Systems. 9: Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications. 10: E-commerce: Digital Markets, Digital Goods. 11: Improving Decision Making and Managing Knowledge. 12: Building Information Systems and Managing Projects.

Indicative reading: 

Laudon, K., & Laudon, J. (2015). Management Information Systems: International Edition, 14/E. Pearson Higher Education.

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