Integrating Information Technology and Business Processes

Relationship between information technology and the fundamental processes driving the business enterprise. A distinguishing objective is to reorient students from a business as usual approach to information systems design toward an integrated, cross-functional reassessment of the critical processes of the firm. The role of information technology as both an objective of and a participant in effective change is emphasized in relation to crucial organizational, managerial, and cultural factors. Students work as members of project teams to analyze case studies of actual re-engineering efforts and to participate in original prototype exercises.