BUSBIS 1600 - TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Business in the 21st century runs on Information Technology (IT). Competitive advantage, however, seldom comes from having exclusive, or proprietary, access to IT. Rather, sustainable advantage comes from more effectively utilizing IT to automate and integrate business processes. The implications of this reality are many. First, it is necessary to understand what technologies are available in the marketplace and what their capabilities are. Next, and far more challenging, it is necessary to understand how those capabilities might positively, or negatively, interact with business strategy. The capabilities of IT can certainly contribute to meeting a strategy, but it is also conceivable that those same capabilities could enable new, unconventional, strategies; in essence transforming the business. Given that rapid development of new technologies, and continuing trends toward outsourcing of IT, organizations need Business Analysts who can work as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT professionals to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and then recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals. Successful Business Analysts acquire a broad skill set that covers all phases of the transformation lifecycle: 1. IT Discovery Portfolio 2. IT Project Portfolio 3. IT Asset Portfolio This course begins at a high level with a broad overview of IT systems, transformation strategies, IT portfolio management, and the role of the Business Analyst. The second half of the class narrows its focus to the IT Project Portfolio and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for practical application. Using an engaging mix of lectures, experience-based learning case studies, and in-class hands-on labs, students will develop the baseline set of skills necessary to become a successful Business Analyst.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSBIS 1060 or IS 0400 or MIS 0208 (MIN GRADE ‘C’); PROG: UCBA; PLAN: NOT CASBUS-UNK or BUSNB-MN

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