Course Description
Concepts related to leading information technology-enabled
change in business, including fundamentals of information
systems, business process improvement, business and data
modeling, project management, and intensive spreadsheet
utilization.
Athena Title
Intro to Info Systems Business
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in MIST 2090, MIST 2090H
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to construct a technical business plan that uses best practices to model and evaluate business processes, recommend appropriate methodologies to support organizational software development, and build a data model to store essential business information.
- Students will be able to understand, analyze, and assess key issues and arguments in the contemporary sociotechnical business environment.
- Students will be able to use business intelligence tools to prepare and analyze business data to support organizational decision making.
- Students will be able to use software to visually present business data effectively and persuasively.
Topical Outline
- Leading IT-enabled change in organizations
- Data-driven decision making; artificial intelligence
- Technology entrepreneurship & business modeling
- Process improvement in organizations
- IT project management; product management
- Information security
- Contemporary concepts in digital innovation
- Applying data to business challenges
- Data cleaning and manipulation
- Applied business analytics (descriptive/predictive analysis, financial analysis, working with textual data)
- Effectively displaying information to business users (data visualization, dashboards, interface design)
