MBA 548 - IT Management and Innovation Credits: 3

This course examines frameworks, concepts, practices, and examples that help business managers understand the value of IT and generate business value from investments in IT and its complimentary business resources. Topics include strategic alignment of IT with organizational goals, organizational efficiency and transformation enabled by IT, organizational learning and innovation enabled by IT, positioning and managing of the IT function, IT and sustainability. Uses lecture, projects, case studies. This course also examines from business perspective systems and technologies that help companies innovate and deliver business value such as business analytics, cloud computing, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain systems.