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Information technology plays a critical role in business and society, supporting business transformation and innovation, digital lifestyles, and how we communicate and collaborate. This course aims to help students understand how organisations can use data and technology to address business problems, to deliver business value and stay competitive, to create better processes, to improve connections with stakeholders, and to make better decisions. Students are exposed to the opportunities that new and emerging technologies provide, and develop problem-solving skills applicable to any area in business as well as practical skills to capture, organise and use data to support decision-making.
The objectives of the course are:1. Explain the fundamental concepts of business information systems (IS), their role in organizations, and how IS can be leveraged to create business value, support strategic initiatives, and enhance decision making.2. Analyse key business processes and the digital technologies that support them, including Collaboration Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)3. Identify how digital innovation and digital business models associated with emerging technologies, ecosystems, and platforms transforms and create value in organizations and society.4. Evaluate critical issues related to managing IS in organizations, such as the IS development process, information security, privacy, ethics, and IS governance.5. Describe and assess key concepts, components, and technologies involved in selecting and implementing IS solutions, including hardware, software, and sustainable digital infrastructures.6. Understand foundational database concepts to design, organize, manage, query, and visualize data using database management systems.7. Develop proficiency in using business productivity tools such as presentation software, spreadsheets, data analytics tools, database applications, and generative AI assistants.8. Demonstrate effective communication and presentation skills by creating and delivering a professional presentation tailored to IS and business audiences, using digital presentation tools.
ACIS123, AFIS123, AFIS124
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Richard Derham
Jean-Grégoire Bernard
Required readings for lectures and discussion tutorials will be posted on LEARN
Domestic fee $979.00
International fee $5,188.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Department of Accounting and Information Systems on the departments and faculties page .