Information systems are an integral part of all business activities and careers. This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary information systems and demonstrate how these systems are used throughout global organizations. The focus of this course will be on the key components of information systems - people, software, hardware, data, and communication technologies, and how these components can be integrated and managed to create competitive advantage. Through the knowledge of how IS provides a competitive advantage students will gain an understanding of how information is used in organizations and how IT enables improvement in quality, speed, and agility. This course also provides an introduction to systems and development concepts, technology acquisition, and various types of application software that have become prevalent or are emerging in modern organizations and society.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge &understand
Learn about the information system and the main components of the information systems infrastructure.
Learn how companies are widely using these systems to enforce organizational structures and processes and to achieve competitive advantage.
Learn how the organization's systems promote stronger relationships with customers and suppliers.
Learn how to secure information systems resources.
mental skills
The student can distinguish between the administrative levels that make up any institution in terms of (its tasks, the types of decisions issued by it, and the types of information systems used in it).
The student will be able to distinguish between the types of information systems and classify them according to any model.
The ability to infer how to mitigate risks as well as plan and recover from disasters.
Comparing and distinguishing between many concepts and terms, including (distinguishing between databases, data warehouse and operations established in each type, distinguishing between cybersecurity and information security, distinguishing between scientific perceptions, information visualization and visual analytics).
Practical & professional skills
How to formulate a feasibility study for a new information system, including estimating both costs and benefits, the ability to identify the advantages and disadvantages of any existing system within an organization, and the ability to identify the main objective of the proposed system.
The ability to design an information system and distinguish between the stages of its construction.
The ability to determine the appropriate criteria for evaluating the information system.
The ability to distinguish between available information from different types of information systems and necessary to acquire business intelligence to support decision-making for the various levels and functions of the organization, as well as distinguish between business intelligence techniques.
The ability to understand how to use databases and to distinguish between steps to discover knowledge in them.
General and transferable skills
Communication, written and oral communication
Commitment to performing exams on time.
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures
Panel discussions.
Methods of assessments
Midterm exam = 40
Final exam = 60
Course contents
Defining the system, information, information systems, the mechanism of the system
Information systems resources
Information system activities and procedures
Characteristics of an ideal information system
Justifications for the introduction of information systems in institutions, objectives and importance of information systems
Stages of modern developments of information systems
Stages of building and developing information systems
Challenges facing information systems, criteria for evaluating information systems
The stages of modern developments of information systems, the administrative levels (organizational structure) of any institution and the types of decisions taken therein.
Definition of integrated information systems, management of information systems, management of information resources and its objectives
Feasibility study of information systems and some related concepts
The Internet, the World Wide Web (the Web) and its generations, electronic commerce and its types, electronic government and its objectives.
Security of information systems and its components, threats to information systems, information security management systems, network security and security policy, cyber security and cyber attacks
Business intelligence and its techniques, knowledge discovery steps