Strategic Information Systems

Strategic Information Systems (SIS) module entails one assignment. This has been designed to achieve the learning outcomes of the module and to develop the subject understanding of the student.

SIS Main Assignment Title:

Critically evaluate the importance of how systems generate value in contemporary organisations.Please look at the latest systems and technology available on the market.

Please provide examples and illustrations for each of your answers.

1. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP System)

• Explain the nature and role of business information systems
• Analyse the strategic organisational needs for business information systems and their impact on organisations.
• Demonstrate a strategic awareness of the process followed in planning information systems for organisations.

2. Introduction

3. Strategic objective

4. Alternatives relationships between strategies for managing information-related resources

• Principal options for ownership of information management strategy (Business Information Management)

5. Three information-related strategies

• Information Management Strategy
• Knowledge Management Strategy
• Information Systems Strategy

Include Article:

Strategy and the internet by Michael E.Porter

6. IT Governance

7. Conclusion

• Use text book recommended below on your research and findings
• Harvard Referencing

Further notes:

a) Give relevant real life practical examples that you know about or have read about in the newspapers, books, case studies and/or the Internet.

b) Use relevant references throughout the assignment and provide a list of these at the end of the assignment, using Harvard referencing style.

c) The word limit for this assignment is 2,000 words. This word limit does not include your references, figures (drawings/diagrams), tables, details on the front cover and appendices.  A proportionate penalty applies if you go over the word limit.  Please consult the latest edition of the Student Handbook.  Count the number of words in the assignment and specify the correct wordage on the coversheet.

d) Use the following layout guidelines for the whole assignment:

• Font: Times New Roman
• Line spacing: single
• Text size: 11
• Margins left and right: 3 cm
• Margins top and bottom: 3 cm
• Number the pages + include your UB number in the footer.
• Left and right margins fully justified
• Use Harvard referencing style (refer to referencing notes provided on SIS Blackboard site)

Text Book:

• Hussain Z (2008), Strategic Information Systems, Pearson
• Fundamentals of Information Systems (6^th Edition) - Ralph Stair, George Reynolds
• Cassidy A (1998), A Practical Guide to Information Systems Strategic Planning, St Lucie Press
• E-Business and E-Commerce Management (4^th Edition)
• Dave Chaffey & Steve Wood, Business Information Managemen