The objective of this course is to explore information resources management issues from a managerial perspective. In this course students learn how information resources can influence and define corporate strategy, how to discover opportunities to gain competitive advantages with information resources, and how managers control the development and use of such information resources (covering topics such as end-user computing expert systems and privacy). Students also learn how to model and analyze corporate information needs, how database management systems serve to support those needs, and how managers address significant issues concerning that support.
