COURSE CODE
COURSE TITLE
PLANNING AND MANAGING IT INFRASTRUCTURE WEIGHTAGES
L 4
T 0
P 0
CREDITS (or Max. Marks) Attendance 4 10
CA P 30 0
MTE Th 20 P 0
ETE Th 40
COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course imparts understanding of importance of Information technology in managing enterprises requirements. PRE-REQUISITES: NA COURSE CONTENTS: S. No. 1 2 3 4 5 Description IT for Managers: Need of understanding IT, Function IT, Network IT, Enterprise IT, Role of Managers Vis--vis IT Strategic Planning: Understanding strategic Planning and its relationship with IT, What is strategic planning process Project Management: Need of understanding Project Management, Project, Project Variables, Project Management Knowledge Areas Business Process and IT Outsourcing: Outsourcing, Offshore outsourcing, Need of Outsourcing, Issues associated with outsourcing, Planning outsourcing process Corporate Governance and IT: IT Governance, Mitigating IT-related risks, Need of understanding IT Governance, IT Governance Frameworks, Business Continuity Planning Collaboration Tools and Wireless Networks: Various collaboration Tools, Wireless communications fundamentals, Cell Phone Services, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max MTE E-Business: Need, B2B, B2C, C2C , E-governance applications, Mobile Commerce, Advantages and issues with E-business Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP, ERP and CRM, ERP and SCM, Benefits of ERP, ERP issues, ERP System Implementation process, ERP Best Practices, ERP Trends Business Intelligence: Dataware house, Business Intelligence tools, Business performance management Knowledge Management: Applications and benefits, Best practices for a KM project, Supporting technologies Enterprise Architecture: Importance, Software architecture styles, developing an Enterprise architecture Ethical, Privacy and Security Issues: Ethics, Corporate Ethics, Corporate Ethics Officer, Ethical standards, Ethics training, Privacy, Cybercrime and Computer Security, Types of attacks, perpetrators, defensive measures, prevention, detection, response
6 7 8 9 10
LABORATORY WORK: NA TEXT BOOKS: 1. Author: George W R Title: Information Technology for Mangers, Publishers: CENGAGE Learning OTHER READINGS: 1. Building Enterprise Information Architectures: Reengineering Information Systems by Melissa Cook Hewlett-Packard Professional Books (Author) 2. IT Systems Management: Designing, Implementing, and Managing World-Class Infrastructures by Rich Schiesser SALIENT PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES: 1. A lot of Case Studies given in the book should be discussed for better understanding to the students.
2009-10