Dr. Ahmed Al-Hunaiyyan

GUST

BA3841: The Management of Information Systems
Fall 2006/2007

Dr. Ahmed Al-Hunaiyyan

Course Description :

The challenge of developing and supporting information technology lies not with the technology itself, but with the social and political issues of corporate environments. To MIS majors, information technology is a fascinating and marvelous tool to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness. However, information systems are paid for by senior level managers who generally do not share our enthusiasm. In the reality of political organizations, information technology managers spend much of their time mediating perceptions about IT performance, gaining support from senior management for IT investments, managing multiple stakeholders including users, external vendors, as well as the IT staff. This course covers very current topics concerning information systems management, including strategic IT planning, IT outsourcing, business process re-engineering, managing large scale IT investments, evaluating IT proposals, managing the develop of new technologies such as client/server, benchmarking IT performance, and developing measure of IT productivity and quality.

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