School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    IT Value Realisation
  • Unit Code

    MAN6935
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Keith FITZPATRICK

Description

Millions of dollars are spent on Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) yet very little knowledge exists about justifying and realising these large investments. This unit examines how IT and IS provide value as well as the types of value, evaluation approaches and realisation techniques. The moderating influences of value protecting approaches on value creation are recognised. Modern methodologies are examined as a way of managing IT/IS value during the stages of evaluation, acquisition and implementation.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Review the major activities and techniques involved in IT/IS value management.
  2. Appraise the systems acquisition lifecycle.
  3. Construct a business case to support an investment in IT/IS.
  4. Assess the impacts of IT implementation on diverse stakeholders, including from an ethical or social perspective.

Unit Content

  1. Investing in IT/IS.
  2. IT/IS value creation.
  3. Developing an IT/IS business case.
  4. IT/IS justification and evaluations approaches.
  5. IT/IS risk evaluation and management.
  6. IT/IS value realisation processes.
  7. IT/IS value and risk governance.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning activities include class presentations in which contemporary IT value management topics are examined by providing the theoretical aspects of the topic and demonstrating how they are reflected in practice. For the major case study assignment, students construct a business report supported by the collection of real life data. In undertaking these activities, students learn to discover, evaluate and apply IT value management theory to provide solutions to contemporary situations and to present their work in a professional manner.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyData collection25%
AssignmentBusiness Case45%
PresentationOral Presentation20%
Reflective PracticeIndividual reflection10%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyData collection25%
AssignmentBusiness Case45%
PresentationOral presentation20%
Reflective PracticeIndividual reflection10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    IT Value Realisation
  • Unit Code

    MAN6935
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Keith FITZPATRICK

Description

Millions of dollars are spent on Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) yet very little knowledge exists about justifying and realising these large investments. This unit examines how IT and IS provide value as well as the types of value, evaluation approaches and realisation techniques. The moderating influences of value protecting approaches on value creation are recognised. Modern methodologies are examined as a way of managing IT/IS value during the stages of evaluation, acquisition and implementation.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Review the major activities and techniques involved in IT/IS value management.
  2. Appraise the systems acquisition lifecycle.
  3. Construct a business case to support an investment in IT/IS.
  4. Assess the impacts of IT implementation on diverse stakeholders, including from an ethical or social perspective.

Unit Content

  1. Investing in IT/IS.
  2. IT/IS value creation.
  3. Developing an IT/IS business case.
  4. IT/IS justification and evaluations approaches.
  5. IT/IS risk evaluation and management.
  6. IT/IS value realisation processes.
  7. IT/IS value and risk governance.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning activities include class presentations in which contemporary IT value management topics are examined by providing the theoretical aspects of the topic and demonstrating how they are reflected in practice. For the major case study assignment, students construct a business report supported by the collection of real life data. In undertaking these activities, students learn to discover, evaluate and apply IT value management theory to provide solutions to contemporary situations and to present their work in a professional manner.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyData collection25%
AssignmentBusiness Case45%
PresentationOral Presentation20%
Reflective PracticeIndividual reflection10%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyData collection25%
AssignmentBusiness Case45%
PresentationOral presentation20%
Reflective PracticeIndividual reflection10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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