The
4th industrial revolution has opened up new opportunities for
business enterprises equipped with modern up-to-date information systems and
technologies. To respond to the rapidly changing business environment as well
as to cope up with the upcoming technologies, it is necessary for businesses to
implement and sustain effective technologies. As part of this process, students
must be well known and advanced with technological tools and techniques that
work for the best output. For this purpose, this course is designed to assist
students in learning various IT tools and techniques which are available for
efficient and effective management of any organization whether public or
private, for-profit, or not-for-profit, manufacturing or service types in nature.
They will also be taught how these can be utilized for success. Students will
learn the terminology used in the field of IT and how IT principles can apply
to businesses. The course stresses the competitive advantage of using IT and
the return of investing in it. It focuses on the basic principles of
information systems: basic ideas of IS e.g., transaction processing system
(TPS), management information systems (MIS), decision support systems (DSS),
artificial intelligence (AI), executive support systems (ESS), expert systems
(ES), and communication, and collaboration systems, enterprise resource
planning (ERP), digital firm, the impact of IS in the organization, the ethical and
societal issues involved in IT, e-commerce, database technology,
telecommunications and networking, systems development and implementation,
security concepts etc.