1. IT management: Introduction
Denis Manley

2. Lecturer Details Name: Denis Manley email - denis.manley@dit.ie
Phone –
Wednesday 18:30 –21:30 in room KA-3-010
Website:
(notes are on website and not on webcourses)

3. Continuous Assessment
Continuous assessment 1 assignments 20 %
Write a “formal” paper on some aspect of IT management a list of topics will be supplied

4. Books Essential Reading
Jane Laudon & Kenneth Laudon, Essentials of Management Information Systems, 10th ed.; Prentice Hall, 2007; ISBN: (editions 8 and 9 of the same book will be just as good)
Supplemental Reading
Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases, 11/E Fred David: ISBN:
Database Systems : A practical approach to design, implementation and management. Connolly and Begg
Oz & Jones, Management Information Systems, Cengage Learning, 2008; ISBN:

5. Module Content Business and information systems
Developing organisational strategy: a strategic management framework
Data and information producing IT systems: transaction processing and management information system
Business intelligent Database systems: Data warehouses
Decision making IT systems: Decision support systems and Executive information systems

6. Module Content
Business decision making IT systems: data mining and online analytical processing
Business processes support systems: supply chain management and customer relations management system.
Integration of the different department IT systems: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
The security of Information system and critical data