IST60100 - Technology for Managerial Decision Making

(3 units)

The course covers a detailed study of a variety of state-of-the-art technologies available in the marketplace as options for enterprise planning and management and for facilitating managerial decisions. Example topics include reengineering, electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic commerce, web business strategies, decision support systems, risk management systems, neural networks, expert systems and software productivity management. The course also introduces aspects of business functions integration and operational data/project management with technology using the SAP software which is the world’s leading provider of client/server software. A venture/business plan is developed during the course.