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

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Keith FITZPATRICK

Description

Modern organisations rely on their Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and systems (IS), often requiring these organisations to invest significantly in order to address issues, maintain their position in the market or continue to meet the demands of their clients or shareholders. Therefore, great consideration must be given when deciding how to prioritise and justify these investments, requiring specific data and reporting to base these investment decisions upon to leadership tasked in deciding which investments to support or prioritise accordingly. This unit examines how value is determined from an ICT and IS perspective and the challenges, tools and techniques needed to produce a coherent case to support an investment decision.

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. Administrative - ICT/IS Strategic Alignment
  2. Administrative - ICT/IS Procurement Practices
  3. Administrative - ICT Value & Decision Support
  4. Technical - Infrastructure & Network Design
  5. Technical - Cloud Considerations
  6. IS Governance - Disaster Recover / Business Continuity and ICT/IS Risk Management
  7. IS Governance - ICT/IS Project Management
  8. ICT/IS Ethical Considerations

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's 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 via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
TestWeekly Quiz15%
Case StudyData Collection25%
AssignmentBusiness Case40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestWeekly Quiz15%
Case StudyData Collection25%
AssignmentBusiness Case40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination20%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Keith FITZPATRICK

Description

Modern organisations rely on their Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and systems (IS), often requiring these organisations to invest significantly in order to address issues, maintain their position in the market or continue to meet the demands of their clients or shareholders. Therefore, great consideration must be given when deciding how to prioritise and justify these investments, requiring specific data and reporting to base these investment decisions upon to leadership tasked in deciding which investments to support or prioritise accordingly. This unit examines how value is determined from an ICT and IS perspective and the challenges, tools and techniques needed to produce a coherent case to support an investment decision.

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. Administrative - ICT/IS Strategic Alignment
  2. Administrative - ICT/IS Procurement Practices
  3. Administrative - ICT Value & Decision Support
  4. Technical - Infrastructure & Network Design
  5. Technical - Cloud Considerations
  6. IS Governance - Disaster Recover / Business Continuity and ICT/IS Risk Management
  7. IS Governance - ICT/IS Project Management
  8. ICT/IS Ethical Considerations

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's 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 via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
TestWeekly Quiz15%
Case StudyData Collection25%
AssignmentBusiness Case40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestWeekly Quiz15%
Case StudyData Collection25%
AssignmentBusiness Case40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination20%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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