Course specification for CIS8503

Semester 1, 2020 On-campus Toowoomba
Short Description:	Enterprise IT Management
Units :	1
Faculty or Section :	Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
School or Department :	School of Management and Enterprise
Student contribution band :	Band 2
ASCED code :	020399 - Information Systems not elsewh
Grading basis :	Graded

Staffing

Examiner:

Rationale

Information Technology has become essential to the operation of any business today. The management of Information and Communications Technology requires significant skills and an assortment of different frameworks in order to support the efficient functioning of information and communications technology in support of an organisations mission, vision and goals.

Synopsis

This course provides an overview of the role of Information Technology within an organisation and the different functions it performs to aid an organisation. Students will be introduced to the different frameworks, which are necessary to manage and maintain Information Technology. The course will cover different governance, development and operational activities with the necessary skills required to support these different processes. In addition to the different frameworks, the course also introduces some of the common compliance and standards Information Technology departments generally adhere such as ISO 27001 and The Privacy Act. The different roles and responsibilities are discussed in regards to the way in which they contribute to Information Technology.

Objectives

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

critically examine Information Technology as a business in the context of IT Management environments;
synthesize a range of Information Technology processes associated with Enterprise IT Management;
analyse how Information Technology contributes to strategy;
compare and contrast services provided by Information Technology within the context of an organisation;
enact change through portfolios and projects;
synthesise and articulate governance and reporting of Information Technology.

Topics

	Description	Weighting(%)
1.	Information Technology as a business	10.00
2.	IT Processes	20.00
3.	IT Strategy	20.00
4.	IT Services	10.00
5.	IT Portfolio and Project Management	20.00
6.	IT Reporting	10.00
7.	IT Governance	10.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from (unless otherwise stated). (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/textbooks/?year=2020&sem=01&subject1=CIS8503)

Please for alternative purchase options from USQ Bookshop. (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/info/contact/)

Pilorget, Lionel and Schell, Thomas 2018, IT Management: The art of managing IT based on a solid framework leveraging the company麓s political ecosystem, 1st edn, Springer Vieweg.

Reference materials

Reference materials are materials that, if accessed by students, may improve their knowledge and understanding of the material in the course and enrich their learning experience.

Students are encouraged to access the technical content of the topics below from the web:
COBIT 5 -

ITIL -

SAFE 4.0 -

The Privacy Act -

SFIA -

TOGAF -

BABOK -

PRINCE2 - .

Student workload expectations

Activity	Hours
Directed 精东传媒app	66.00
Private 精东传媒app	99.00

Assessment details

Description	Marks out of	Wtg (%)	Due Date
Written Report 1	100	20	20 Mar 2020
Written Report 2	100	30	17 Apr 2020
Open Exam	100	50	End S1

Important assessment information

Attendance requirements:

It is the students' responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them, to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.
Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:

To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks for that item.
Penalties for late submission of required work:

Students should refer to the Assessment Procedure (point 4.2.4)
Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:

To be assured of receiving a passing grade a student must obtain at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for the course (i.e. the Primary Hurdle).
Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:

The final grades for students will be assigned on the basis of the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each of the summative items for the course.
Examination information:

An open examination is one in which candidates may have access to any printed or written material and a calculator during the examination.
Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:

Any Deferred or Supplementary examinations for this course will be held during the next examination period.
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Evaluation and benchmarking

In meeting the 精东传媒app鈥檚 aims to establish quality learning and teaching for all programs, this course monitors and ensures quality assurance and improvements in at least two ways. This course:

Conforms to the USQ Policy on Evaluation of Teaching, Courses and Programs to ensure ongoing monitoring and systematic improvement and is benchmarked against the internal USQ accreditation/reaccreditation processes which include (i) stringent standards in the independent accreditation of its academic programs, (ii) close integration between business and academic planning, and (iii) regular and rigorous review.

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