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.

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Athena Title

Intro Info Systems Business H

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Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in MIST 2090, MIST 2090E

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Prerequisite

Permission of Honors

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Semester Course Offered

Offered every year.

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Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

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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.

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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)

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Syllabus

Select Faculty / Instructor to download syllabus:   Miller, Andrew

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