You have four major resources to help you learn:
- The course materials, comprising the weekly study units with readings, references, insights and commentary. You will do much of your learning outside the classroom by working through the course materials, and by completing the exercises as they arise.
- Your online or face-to-face classes with your facilitator. The facilitator's job is to guide your learning by conducting class discussion, answering questions that might arise after you have done the week's work, providing insights from his or her practical experience and understanding of theory, providing you with feedback on your assignments, and directing discussions and debates that will occur between you and your co-participants in the classroom.
- Your co-participants. Your colleagues in the classroom are an invaluable potential source of learning for you. Their work and life, and their willingness to question and argue with the course materials, the facilitator and your views, represent a great learning opportunity. They bring much valuable insight to the learning experience.
- In addition to course-based resources, please also refer to the AGSM Learning Toolkit (available in Moodle) for tutorials and guides that will help you learn more about effective study practices and techniques.
Course materials
The course materials comprise this Course Overview, the Assessment Details and 12 Units. Each Unit has a number of associated readings.
Readings
Specific readings are prescribed throughout the Units and are available via active hyperlinks or URLs. Please note that you may be required to enter your UNSW zID and zPass in order to access these hyperlinked readings.
Prescribed textbook
McKeen, J D & Smith, H A, 2015, IT strategy: Issues and practices, 3rd edn (Global Edn), Pearson, NJ.
Please note that enrolled students will be provided with access to the eBook version of this text prior to the commencement of the session.
Recommended reading
(either the listed edition or a more recent edition)
Applegate, L M, Austin, R D & Soul, D L 2009, Corporate information strategy and management, McGraw-Hill, Boston
Baltzan, P, Lynch, K & Blakey, P 20194, Business driven information systems, 64th edn, McGraw Hill Irwin, Boston, MA.
Brown, C V, DeHayes, D W, Hoffer, J A, Martin, W E & Perkins, W C 2012, Managing information technology, 7th edn, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
Grant, K, Hackney, R & Edgar, D 2010, Strategic information systems management, Course Technology, Cengage Learning.
Laudon, K C & Laudon, J P 2018, Management information systems: Managing the digital firm, 15th edn, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
McNurlin, B C, Sprague, R H Jnr & Bui, T 2009, Information systems management in practice, 8th edn, Prentice-Hall.
Stair, R & Reynolds, G 2018, Principles of information systems, 13th edn, Cengage Learning, Boston.
Valacich, J & Schneider, C 2018, Information systems today: Managing in the digital world, 8th edn, Pearson, Boston
Whitman, M E & Mattord, H J 2017, Management of information security, 5th edn, Course Technology, Cengage, Boston.
Other resources
UCo
UCo is AGSM’s Campus in the Cloud, a social platform that connects students, staff and faculty – enabling you to engage with each other across your courses and the AGSM outside of the formal Moodle setting. AGSM also uses this private network to communicate with you about extracurricular opportunities and events, and general updates on programs and courses. Enrolled students can access UCo using their zID and zPass at Link