COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name Code Semester T+A+L (hour/week) Type (C / O) Local Credit ECTS
Enterprise Information Systems MIS 403 Fall 03+00+00 Elective 3 5
Academic Unit: Management Information System
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Prerequisites: None
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Course Unit: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: - -
Course Objectives: This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the theoretic and practical issues related to the application of enterprise systems within organizations. The main focus of this course is to demonstrate how enterprise systems integrate information and organizational processes across functional areas with a unified system comprised of a single database and shared reporting tools.
Course Contents: Enterprises and their information systems strategic planning, ES, business functions and business processes integration, selection of enterprise systems software, types of ES, organisational change, IT and business alignment from ES perspective
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO):
  • 1- Ability to understand the fundamentals of enterprise systems and issues associated with their implementation.
  • 2- Ability to evaluate the costs and benefits of implementing an enterprise system
  • 3- Ability to understand how enterprise systems integrate functional areas into one enterprisewide information system.
  • 4- Ability to recognize how an organizational process often spans different functional areas.
  • 5- Ability to identify, describe, and evaluate the major enterprise system software providers and their packaged systems.
  • 6- Ability to grasp importance of team work, motivation and mentoring
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: The main educational tool used in the course are lectures and group projects. Readings and the case analysis and class discussion of case studies are used to supplement the main course tool.


WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS

WeekSubjectsRelated Preperation
1 Analysis and Frameworks to EIS
2 Enterprise System Development and Deployment
3 Enterprise System Selection and Project Planning
4 Business Process Reengineering and Best Practices
5 Enterprise Systems Architecture
6 System Implementation and User Adoption
7 Implementation Lifecycle and System Maintenance
8 EIS and Supply Chains
9 EIS and Business Intelligence
10 EIS and other functional IS
11 Business Case for EIS implementation
12 Vendor Profiles and Industry Trends
13 Future and Contemporary Trends in EIS
14 Project Presentations


REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING

There is no required textbook for this course. Required readings will be anounced in class and/or on blackboard. Additional reading: Olson, D. / Kesharwani, S. (2009): Enterprise Information Systems, World Scientific Publishing, ISBN 978-981-4273-15-2


OTHER COURSE RESOURCES



ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

Semester RequirementsNumberPercentage of Grade (%)
Project 1 30
Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes 1 30
Final Exam 1 40
Total: 3 100


WORKLOAD

EventsCountDuration (Hours)Total Workload (hour)
Course Hours14342
Project22754
Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes199
Final Exam12020
Total Workload (hour):125


THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)

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