Course Description

Course CodeCourse NameCreditsHours
7407006 Information Systems: Strategy and Analytics 3.0 3
Description This course is designed to provide the future managers and researchers with understanding and appreciation of the issues that are related to the organization’s information systems assets. The course is not to educate technical specialists; rather, it is to give students a managerial perspective on the use of, design of, and evaluations of information systems that exist in organizations today. Furthermore, because Business Intelligence (BI) has become an important agenda for many top executives because they have become extremely aware of its value in providing a competitive differentiator at all levels of the organizations, topics such as data warehousing, business analytics and data mining will be also introduced. Software applications for business decision makings for business performance management (AHP) and data mining (Rapid Miner) will be used for class projects. The objective of this course is to prepare students to manage information services in both today’s and tomorrow’