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Yetunde Folajimi
Teaching

Technology Management

About the course
The course provides participants with knowledge and skills that will help them understand the concepts of managing technological change within for profit and not-for-profit types of organizations. 
The course examines how information technology makes possible new business models, new organizational structures, and new management processes.  During the course, students learn different approaches and current practices in dealing with the organizational and human aspects of effective technology transition initiatives. Topics covered include information technology in today's businesses, managing technology, managing people, managing IS organizations, and managing organizational transformation.  Discussion of current situations faced by Nigerian organizations and extended case studies from international perspectives are major emphases of this course.

Lecture time:
Thursdays 10:00–12.00 pm in PG hall, Dept of Computer Science 

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students should be able:

1.      To describe how to use information technology for rethinking and redesigning business processes and organizations

2.      To describe the role of information technology in organizations

3.      To analyze the role of individuals and groups in organizations and how they impact the use of technology

4.      To evaluate problems in the planning and implementation of organizational change

5.      To assess the relationship of process redesigning to other initiatives to improve the performance of organizations


6.      To design a process-centered organization and analyze when and where outsourcing is appropriate 



Course Project
students ares expected to submit a project at the end of this semester. Project requires both group and individual efforts to analyze problems and/or opportunities in a real organization and proposes changes enabling by appropriate applications of information technology. The case study will be evaluated based on the criteria outlined by the Lecturer.  The case study will be graded based on not only the quality of the final product but also the effort that you spent throughout the process, including the oral defense  


Course outline
  • Information Technology and Organizations 
  • Overview of Technology Management 
  • IT and Business Strategy 
  • Role of IT in Organizational Change 
  • Managing Individuals and Groups in IT
  • Managing Information Systems Organizations
  • Managing the Processes of Organizational Behavior 
  • Information Technology Outsourcing 
  • Transformed Organization - Electronic Business 
  • Case Studies (End of course Project)


Course materials

Download the following slides. More materials will subsequently be added

Introduction

http://layoftheland.net/archive/web/mis-575/course_docs/topic_1/M1.T1.ppt

http://layoftheland.net/archive/web/mis-575/course_docs/topic_2/T2.Overview.ppt


IT and Business Strategy



IT and organizational change