CP1005 - Business and IT Interface

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	School of Business

This subject focuses on IT in business, its uses, importance, and management. Areas covered include management of information services and infrastructures in organisations and the role of IT professionals in developing and implementing IT. The organisational framework for IT and IT professional practices is set within its broader social context. Techniques and tools for describing, analysing and managing IT services and infrastructures used in organisations will be introduced. The opportunities, problems and risks associated with IT uses in business will be examined.

Learning Outcomes

• understand basic concepts of organisations, including organisational structures, the roles of individuals and groups in organisations, the role of communication in organisations;
• understand linkages between IT and business, including the role and importance in organisations and society, and the role of IT in achieving organisational objectives;
• consider ethics, rights and responsibilities associated with IT professionals in organisations;
• apply techniques and tools for describing, analysing, and managing IT services and infrastructures in organisations.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently.

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 26-Aug-2010
Coordinator:	Dr Carrie Lui
Lecturer:	Mr Lindsay Ward.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 24 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 60%); other exams (10% - 15%); assignments (25% - 40%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 26-Aug-2010
Coord/Lect:	Dr Carrie Lui.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 24 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 60%); other exams (10% - 15%); assignments (25% - 40%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53
Census Date 18-Nov-2010
Coordinator:	Dr Carrie Lui
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 24 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 60%); other exams (10% - 15%); assignments (25% - 40%).
Beijing UT, Internal, Study Period 69
Census Date 07-Oct-2010
Coordinator:	Dr Carrie Lui
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 24 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 60%); other exams (10% - 15%); assignments (25% - 40%).

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