No specific prior knowledge is necessary
Understand the strategic role of Information Systems (IS) and Information Technologies (IT) within organizations, as well as their impact on competitiveness and value creation.
Analyze the alignment between IS/IT and business strategy, evaluating organizational models of the IT department and their contribution to achieving corporate objectives.
Design and implement effective Information Systems, taking into account technical, functional, and strategic components, and ensuring their suitability to organizational needs.
Develop strategic planning and management capabilities in the IS/IT domain, through the formulation of the IS Master Plan and the efficient management of technological budgets and resources.
Strategy of the IS/IT department in the organization.
- IS in the company.
- Alignment of IT/IS with the business.
- Organizational model of the IT/IS department.
Design and implementation of IS in the organization.
- Enterprise Information Systems.
- Information systems associated with IS management.
- ICT competitive strategy.
IS management through the Master Plan
- The Master Plan
- IT/IS budget management
On-site modality:
Subject composed of 8 sessions, distributed in 3 axes of knowledge. The sessions combine the lecturer's presentation of the content with some individual and group work in order to be able to apply the knowledge acquired.
Online modality:
The teaching methodology used in the online mode is based on a proprietary methodology developed by La Salle URL called SDBL (Self Directed Based Learning). SDBL is an active methodology based on situational learning and self-directed learning. With situational learning, students are taught, through challenges, to tackle real problems and situations in the company with which they can consolidate the new knowledge they have acquired. With self-directed learning, the learner decides how to progress in their training based on their previous experience.
On a weekly basis, the LMS (Learning Management System) platform releases the content of a new topic. The way the week works is as follows:
Synchronous kick-off session:
- The teacher gives an overview of the contents and tasks that the student will encounter during the week. The aim of this meeting is to try to discover and reveal on a personal level which aspects of the week's content may be more difficult for the individual learner.
- The teacher solves possible doubts of the students about the previous week's topic.
Between synchronous connections:
- The learner visualises the content of the sessions and develops the tasks given to him/her about the week's topic to consolidate knowledge and identify doubts.
Synchronous check point session:
- The teacher resolves any doubts the students may have about the contents of the week in progress.
- The teacher presents additional content or case studies, which are of interest to the students.
- The teacher generates debate and discussion among the students about the contents of the week in progress with the aim of helping the students in their assimilation, thus improving their learning.
- The teacher provides oral feedback on the deliverables recorded by the students in the previous week's feedback well, emphasising the difficulties and errors encountered. This is for feedback only and not for grading. The feedback wells are an instrument for the students to validate with the mentor, in general terms, the resolution of the tasks set. In this way, the feedback wells are created to give the mentee an opportunity to test the answers with the mentor. Based on the feedback provided by the mentor, the student will be able to finish developing the task and present it as a final deliverable, with the advantage of having had prior advice from the teacher.
Rest of the week. The objective is to finish the development of the tasks of the current week based on the clarifications received in the synchronous check point session in order to overcome the exercises, tasks and/or deliverables of the subject. It is worth mentioning that most of the time dedicated during this last part of the week should be spent on solving the tasks and deliverables, rather than on assimilating content (an aspect that should have been resolved between the kick-off and check point sessions).
The LMS platform opens the content gradually (week by week) so that the whole group follows the same academic pathway. In other words, the sequential opening of subjects is done so that all students in the programme are working on the same subjects simultaneously.
On-site modality:
At the end of each knowledge group, students must complete an individual or group work to be handed in and presented as part of the evaluation of the course.
Online modality:
Subject grade:
Deliverables Sessions 70%: Each student must deposit in the delivery well by the date indicated at the latest.
- Making a Project Charter 10%.
- Choice of methodology 30%.
- The schedule and the WBS 30%.
Final evaluation 30%: Students will work in groups to solve an exercise proposed by the teacher. This exercise will be defended by each group during the evaluation weeks.
The teacher will publish the grades in the portal and, if any student needs more information about it, he/she can contact the teacher directly by email.
In both cases:
Demonstrate academic integrity in the totality of their work.
If the student is caught cheating in any type of exam, plagiarism or rehashing of exercises, activities, assignments, presentations or delivering a team work in which he/she has not collaborated, it will be considered fraud, penalizing the final grade of the course or even being considered as not delivered.
The student and the group must ensure that the work they submit is their own. The student is responsible for citing all sources relied upon in their submissions, using quotation marks when language is taken directly from other sources.
Use of Artificial Intelligence tools
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help in the learning process, but its use must be acknowledged. If you have used any AI tools, include a paragraph at the end of any assignment that uses AI explaining what you used the AI for and what prompts you used to obtain the results. Failure to do so will be considered as an action that tends to falsify or defraud the academic evaluation systems and, therefore, the copying policy of La Salle Campus Barcelona - Copying Policy | La Salle | Campus Barcelona (salleurl.edu) will be applied.
In those subjects or teaching activities in which the academic guide indicates the prohibition of using AI tools, the use of these tools by students will be considered fraud and will entail the application of the copying policy of La Salle Campus Barcelona.
On-site modality:
In the resolution of exercises and course work the criteria to be taken into account are:
- Understanding of the situation posed
- Definition and analysis of the problems posed by the case.
Recording of the main issues
- Proposed solutions
Realism and appropriateness of the proposed solution(s)
Argumentation in defense of the proposed solution(s)
Strengths and benefits of the proposed solution(s)
Implications of the proposal(s) (economic and management)
Online modality:
The following list is the evaluation criteria for the deliverables of the course:
- Management competencies
- Leadership competencies
- Digital competencies
- Communication skills
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