Code
MGFE MIS 4401
Level
M1
Field
Systèmes d’information
Language
Anglais/English
ECTS Credits
3
Class hours
28
Total student load
60
Program Manager(s)
Department
- Technologies, Information et Management
Educational team
Introduction to the module
Information Technology (IT) generalized usage has profoundly changed the business and economic landscape. The effective creation, distribution, and use of information via technology are central to daily life, and Information Systems (IS) have become essential artefacts for running a company. IS is continually solicited to enhance the enterprise's operational processes' quality and provide new and innovative services to all stakeholders, i.e. clients, partners, employees, etc. Effectively addressing the collection, flow, and distribution of information is vital to running a modern organization. Moreover, designing and building information systems that can satisfy business and end-user requirements are tremendous challenges that require multiple competencies.
This course introduces students to these challenges and provides them with fundamental knowledge and essential tools to study and analyze enterprise information systems. The course first presents how an information system relates formally to enterprise business processes and introduces business process modelling with the BPMN notation. Second, the course provides real-world enterprise resource planning (ERP) experience through Oddo software, a comprehensive open-source business application suite. It helps students understand workflow management and business process automation and engage with a community-driven project, enhancing collaborative and communication skills. The students will have to illustrate this course through a project based on a case study inspired by reality.
At the end of this course, the students will have learned how to read models and apply them independently for simple situations. This will enable them to express their business needs rigorously and interact pertinently with people involved in information system engineering-related activities, notably those making up the IT community. Confronted to a specific organizational issue, the student will indeed be able to handle it so that the organizational solution and the related information system would be consistent. In other words, the student would be able to propose new information system models that match the company's needs.
Learning goals/Programme objectives
- LG1 Being able to extend digital intelligence through its different dimensions
- LG3 Having the foundations of responsible and sustainable management
- LG5 Being open (minded) to others and to the world and looking for positive societal impact
Learning objectives/Intended learning outcomes
- 1.1 - Develop digital citizenship and prosperity
- 1.2 - Develop digital creativity for the individual and the organizational
- 3.2 - Apply discipline knowledge appropriately and effectively
- 3.3 - Identify the boudaries of the discipline and possible cross-disciplinary connections
- 3.4 - Select and employ judiciously appropriate techniques and tools within the discipline
Rubrics
• Understanding and modelling the business activities to provide a model expressing the business requirements.
• Design (from a functional standpoint) the data management and processing mechanisms.
• Learning some basic rules that formally express the consistency between the key models taught.
Content : structure and schedule
Part I. Fundamental problems related to design, build and run an IS
- IT cost and the ROI dilemma
- The wicked nature of IS design
- IS lifecycle various models
- Case studies
Part II. ERP for business process
- ERP Software Orientation
- Realtime Business Process Simulation
- Hands-on-Activities
Part III. Business Process Management
- IS models and their essential role in the IS lifecycle
- About business process identification and description
- Business process modeling with BPMN
- Hands-on-Activities
Part IV. A group project
- A complete IS analysis and design case study
Learning delivery
synchrone
Pedagogical methods
For the theoretical part, the course combines face-to-face lectures In-class activities and quizzes.
For the applied part, the students will work in small groups (2 to 4) on the IS analysis and design project.
Evaluation and grading system and catch up exams
The overall grade for the class is a weighted average of three grades:
‒ 25% Assessment
‒ 25% Group project
‒ 50% Final exam
The catch up exam will consist of an exam that will count for 75%, and 25% is the best grade obtained in either the Group project or the quizzes.
Module Policies
Professor-Student Communication
● The professor will contact the students through their school email address (IMT-BS/TSP) and the Moodle portal. No communication via personal email addresses will take place. It is the student responsibility to regularly check their IMT-BS/TSP mailbox.
● Students can communicate with the professor by emailing him/her to his institutional address. If necessary, it is possible to meet the professor in his office during office-hours or by appointment.
Students with accommodation needs
If a student has a disability that will prevent from completing the described work or require any kind of accommodation, he may inform the program director (with supporting documents) as soon as possible. Also, students are encouraged to discuss it with the professor.
Class behavior
● Out of courtesy for the professor and classmates, all mobile phones, electronic games or other devices that generate sound should be turned off during class.
● Students should avoid disruptive and disrespectful behavior such as: arriving late, leaving early, careless behavior (e.g. sleeping, reading a non-course material, using vulgar language, over-speaking, eating, drinking, etc.). A warning may be given on the first infraction of these rules. Repeated violators will be penalized and may face expulsion from the class and/or other disciplinary proceedings.
● The tolerated delay is 5 minutes. Attendance will be declared on Moodle during these 5 minutes via a QR code provided by the teacher at each course start.
● Student should arrive on time for exams and other assessments. No one will be allowed to enter the classroom once the first person has finished the exam and left the room. There is absolutely no exception to this rule. No student can continue to take an exam once the time is up. No student may leave the room during an examination unless he / she has finished and handed over all the documents.
● In the case of remote learning, the student must keep his camera on unless instructed otherwise by the professor.
Honor code
IMT-BS is committed to a policy of honesty in the academic community. Conduct that compromises this policy may result in academic and / or disciplinary sanctions. Students must refrain from cheating, lying, plagiarizing and stealing. This includes completing your own original work and giving credit to any other person whose ideas and printed materials (including those from the Internet) are paraphrased or quoted directly. Any student who violates or helps another student violate academic behavior standards will be penalized according to IMT-BS rules.
Textbook Required and Suggested Readings
‒ Laudon, K., Laudon, J., ”Management Information Systems” , 11th edition, Pearson International Edition, 2010.
- Alter, S., "Information Systems, a management perspective", 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
‒ Dumas, M., La Rosa, M., Mendling, J., Reijers, H., “Fundamentals of Business Process Management”, Springer, 2013.
Prerequisites
Introduction to Information Systems