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Information Systems Governance

Objectives

Information systems governance course, provides students with knowledge about the main roles of a chief information officer (CIO), and the decisions that are to be taken during the exercise of their activities. This course outlines managing information and to thrive new strategies into the digital world business. In this course students are expected to develop presentation and communication skills on defining management information systems strategy and the correspondent alignment with the business processes.

General characterization

Code

400020

Credits

3.5

Responsible teacher

João Miguel Martins Moradias

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

Prerequisites

   

Bibliography

Colisto, N. R. (2012). The CIO playbook: Strategies and best practices for IT leaders to deliver value (Vol. 585). John Wiley & Sons.

Heller, M. (2016). CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of It Leadership. Routledge.

Lane, D. (2011). The Chief Information Officer's Body of Knowledge: People, Process, and Technology (Vol. 571). John Wiley & Sons.

McAfee, A., and Brynjolfsson, E. (2012). Big Data: The Management Revolution. Harvard Business Review 90:60¿ 68.

Smith, G. S. (2011). Straight to the top: Becoming a world-class CIO. John Wiley & Sons.

Teece, D. J. (2010). Business models, business strategy and innovation. Long Range Planning, 43: 172-194

Waller, G., Rubenstrunk, K., & Hallenbeck, G. (2010). The CIO edge: Seven leadership skills you need to drive results. Harvard Business Press

Teaching method

This course will be leaded by theoretical and practical sessions, associated with few sets of individual and group workings papers. It may include some guest that will participate in the session, presenting some of their cases.

Evaluation method

This course will be leaded by theoretical and practical sessions, associated with few sets of individual and group workings papers. It will include some guest that will participate in the session, presenting some of their cases.

 

Regular examination period (1st call):

- Development of an IS Strategic Plan document and presenting to the class (30%)

- Individual Exam (30%)

- Working papers of articles (25%)

- Participation in classes (15%)

 

Resit examination period (2nd call):

- Individual Exam (50%)

- Individual written essay of a scientific top publication (50%)

Subject matter

LU 1. Analysis of real case studies

LU 2. CIO' s roles.

LU 3. Change management processses. 

LU 4. Development of Strategic Plan

LU 5. Paper analysis