615-350 Case Studies in Information Systems

Students must have completed 62.5 points of 200-level information systems subjects.

This is an integrative subject intended to incorporate the principles that have been addressed in earlier parts of the course. A combination of Australian and overseas case studies will be used.

At the completion of this subject, students should:

• be familiar with the experiences of a variety of organisations as they design, develop, implement, and use information systems;

• have experience in dealing with the complexity, politics, and reality of information systems in actual organisational contexts;

• have experience with the case method of learning to develop analytical, synthesis, listening, and presentation skills;

• know how to learn and generalise from the experiences of individual organisations; and

• be exposed to the operations and culture of organisations, both well and poorly run, in various countries.

Class participation, individual case study analysis and presentation, group case study assignment, end-of-semester examination of up to two hours. Student peer critiques will be a component of the assessment. The individual and group case study assignments are expected to take up to ten hours per week. The weighting of the assessment components will be announced at the commencement of the subject.