This course discusses the processes, methods, techniques and tools that organizations useto determine how they should conduct their business, with a particular focus on howcomputer-based technologies can most effectively contribute to the way business isorganized. The course covers a systematic methodology for analyzing a business problemor opportunity, determining what role, if any, computer-based technologies can play inaddressing the business need, articulating business requirements for the technologysolution, specifying alternative approaches to acquiring the technology capabilitiesneeded to address the business requirements, and specifying the requirements for theinformation systems solution in particular, in-house development, development fromthird-party providers, or purchased commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) packages.
