Pre-Requisite Modules	Co-Requisite Modules	ECTS Credits	Module Code
SENG3201	none	5	SENG4101

This module develops on knowledge gained by the student in Information Systems stage 3 to gain a more in depth knowledge of how to developing decision support systems that integrate storage systems with methods of extracting and presenting information that is required to develop organisational strategy; to analyse different models to developing various competitive strategies which optimise organisations resources and its position and scope in the market ; and evaluate the different types of enterprise application architecture and systems.

The aim of this module is to provide students with knowledge of organisational strategic management process and how computerised enterprise architectures and enterprise applications are used to facilitate strategies in an organisation.

On completion of this module, the learner will be able to:

1. Discuss how to formulate strategies for an organisation
2. Discussion on these strategies should be implemented and evaluated
3. Appraisal how to elements decision support systems can be used to produce information related to organisational strategy produce
4. Discussion of how strategic information obtained form decision support systems can be integrated into other organisational information systems to facilitate strategic decision making.
5. Discuss enterprise systems that improve utilisation of an organisation’s resources. 

Lectures: using case studies, to discuss the strategic management process; discussion, using, different ideal scenarios, on designing decision support applications and resource planning systems. Tutorial sessions using examples to support the discussions covered in the lectures.

Strategic Management: A discussion on how organisations should formulate, implement and evaluate their strategies.

Advance Data Warehouses: An evaluation of how data warehouses can be used as an integral source in the strategic decision making.

Strategic Data Mining: An appraisal of data mining techniques used in formulating organisational strategic decision making.

Advanced On-line Analytical processing (OLAP): Evaluation of the architecture of modern (OLAP) systems and how the can be integrated with data warehouses and data mining systems to produce enterprise related information.

Decision support systems: discussion on systems which aid organisations to develop and choose strategic decisions

Enterprise Resource Planning: Discuss on the concepts of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for integrating the primary applications in an organization.

Assessment will be based on a three hour end of year written exam and continuous assessment during the semester.

• Written exam – 70%
• Continuous assessment – 30%

Continuous assessment will take a form of one assessment which may include: an assignment where students will be asked to write and present a formal report discussing elements related to the utilisation of information systems in the strategic management formulation.

 

The suggested method of assessing the individual learning outcomes for the module is as follows:

Learning outcomes 1 – 5 will be assessed by written examination. 

Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be assessed by continuous assessment. 

Students are required to get a minimum of 40% in the combined results of the examination and the assessment.

David F.R. 2007 Strategic Management: concept and cases 11 edition, Pearson ISBN: 0-13-186949-3.  

George M. Marakas(2005) Decision Support Systems in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition

Mehmed Kantardzic (2002) Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms ISBN: 0-471-22852-4 Wiley-IEEE Press

Linthicum, David S. (2003), Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services. Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series

Business Component Factory: A Comprehensive Overview of Component-Based Development for the Enterprise. Peter Herzum / Oliver Sims 0-471-32760-3 Wiley 1999

Data Mining Techniques 2^nd Ed., Wiley, 2002

Strategic Management : http://www.csuchico.edu/mgmt/strategy/

Others to be supplied during the running of the module.

2-hour lecture, and 1-hour tutorial. To be delivered in one semester.

September 2009