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BUSI41W15: INFORMATION SYSTEMS: REALISING THE BENEFITS (DL)

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Type Tied
Level 4
Credits 15
Availability Not available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Management and Marketing

Prerequisites

  • None.

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • None.

Aims

  • This module addresses the business challenges of realising the benefits from an investment in Information Systems (IS). The aim is to equip students with an in-depth understanding at an advanced level of the principles and practices required to lead an IS-enabled business transformation and change programme and ensure the potential benefits are realised for their organisation.

Content

  • Introduction to Benefits Management.
  • A benefits perspective on the project lifecycle.
  • Developing the Benefits Plan.
  • Stakeholder analysis.
  • Adapting the approach to the context.
  • Business roles in IS / change projects.
  • Benefits review assessing the outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • By the end of this module, students should:
  • Have a critical appreciation of the value of a benefit-driven framework for the management of an IS-enabled business change programme;
  • Have a critical appreciation of major success/failure factors for IS initiatives.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • By the end of this module, students should:
  • be able to use a range of specialised practices for ensuring strategic alignment of an IS-enabled business change programme;
  • be able to use a range of specialised practices for planning and initiating an IS-enabled business change programme;

Key Skills:

  • Adaptability, and critical and reflective abilities in response to unpredictable and problematic situations.
  • Written communication.
  • Planning, organising and time management.
  • Problem solving and analysis.
  • Using initiative.
  • Computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • The module is delivered in discrete Units. These are designed to enable the learning outcomes to be achieved through a combination of specially written material, directed reading, reflection through self-assessed assignments and guidance for further reading. Module tutors provide feedback on formative work and are available for individual consultation as necessary (by email, telephone, post or fax).
  • The written assignment will test students understanding of relevant concepts and their ability to apply and interpret what they have learned to the analysis of a particular issue in depth.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
DL Study Units (a combination of specially written material, directed reading, self-assessed assignments and guidance for further reading)150 
Total150 

Summative Assessment

Component: Written AssignmentComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Written Assignment4,000 words maximum100 

Formative Assessment

Written assignment of 1,500 words (maximum)

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