Information Mangement

Type: Lecture and Exercise

Module short name: MINF-4200

ECTS points: 6.0

Official information regarding this course is located in the UZH's course catalogue.

The associated OLAT course is titeled: "INF_13_HS_Information_Management"

Lecturer

• Prof. Dr. G. Schwabe

Responsible Assistant

• Joachim Pfister

When and where

• Thu., 12.15 - 13.45 Uhr, room: 2.A.01
• Fri., 10.15 - 12.00 Uhr, room: 2.A.10

Description of contents

This lecture covers the management challenges and opportunities posed by information systems and offers methods to solve those problems. After completion of this course, the student is able to describe the problems and the tasks related to IT management, to explain these problems and tasks and to solve example tasks.

Topics covered:

1. Intro, IT and Strategy
2. Business Models
3. IT Outsourcing
4. IT Governance + IT Organization
5. Portfolios
6. Architectures
7. IT Strategy
8. IT Projects
9. IT Benefits Management
10. IT Service Management
11. ITIL
12. IT and Organizations
13. Managing SW-Companies
14. Managing IT-Innovations

Exercises will include case studies, small projects and paper reading. There will be guest lectures.

Educational objectives

This lecture covers the management challenges and opportunities posed by information systems and offers methods to solve those problems. After completion of this course, the student is able to describe the problems and the tasks related to IT management, to explain these problems and tasks and to solve example tasks. Furthermore, students will be able to critically reflect on information management literature.

References

Note that the lecture format has been changed for this semester:

1. The lecture is held in English (homework may be handed in either in German or English, presentations and class interactions are in English, the exam may be written in German or English).
2. The lecture will be more interactive: There will be one lecture session per week (typically on Thursday) and one exercise session (typically on Friday).
3. A few Friday sessions may be prolonged if an exercise requires it.

Note that all written announcements will only be made using OLAT.

Prior knowledge

Basic knowledge in Business Administration and Information Systems. For business students: "Informatik für Ökonomen I-III"

Target group

Master students in Computer Science (Information systems and Software Systems as well as Minors), Master students in Business Administration or Finance

Certificate of achievement

The final grade will be composed by 50% of a written exam which date is announced in the course catalogue. The final grade’s other 50% consist of graded homework. Some homework will be group work. Both components, the exam and the homework, need to be passed (= total grade 4.0 or better) in order to pass the whole course.