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The management of technology has become an increasingly important activity in organisations in recent years. Information technology has moved beyond the implementation of functional applications to playing a crucial role across all business activities and levels within the organisation. This ubiquitous nature of information technology means that individual successful instances of IT are not enough to guarantee the achievement of organisational goals. Instead, organisations must integrate a number of rapidly changing technologies with overall strategic goals. This has huge implications for the organisation, as the annual global spend on IT is expected to exceed 2.4 trillion dollars in 2017. Managers need to understand how IT is managed within the organisation, how IT can influence innovation, how organisations respond to disruptive technologies and the changing ways in which innovation occurs within and outside the organisation.
The focus of the module is on the importance of IT-enabled change within the organisation and realizing competitive advantage from the IT portfolio. Many of the ideas are broadly applicable irrespective of context.
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DIGITAL BUSINESS
Semester 1
