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Digital technology transforms how businesses operate, compete, and make decisions. This course analyses information systems via their four core components: people, process, technology, and data. Through real-world case studies, students explore how digitalisation transforms industries while learning to assess various digital strategies. The course examines how organisations select, deploy, and manage established and emergent technologies - from enterprise systems to artificial intelligence - while addressing security and ethical considerations. Hands-on activities build practical skills in organising and analysing data to make informed business decisions.
The outcomes 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
Domestic fee $1,038.00
International fee $5,388.00
* 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 .