Providing an IS Strategy and Governance for business digitalization is critical for contemporary organizations and competitive positioning. The aim of this course is to discuss and understand approaches to develop effective IS strategies and provide the required level of governance to maximize value from business digitalization.

The course will offer theory and a project to cover the following topics:

- IS strategy principles and processes

- IS governance principles and processes

- Organizational requirements

- Challenges, risks, and critical success factors

- Frameworks and methodologies including valuation and selection,  and performance optimization

The course not only builds on current research findings in particular from the Institute of Information Management and Control, but also on best practice frameworks including ITIL and COBIT among others.

By the end of this course students should be able to:

- understand what an IS strategy is

- define how value from IS is evaluated and delivered

- appreciate methods to identify opportunities to provide IS services and exploit them

- understand IS service provision models

- evaluate the organizational capability to deliver the IS strategy

- consider the role of digital resources or assets

- understand the required processes needed to achieve the IS strategy

- design and interpret selected IS strategy performance models

Unexcused absence in the first unit leads to the loss of place in this course!

Further, this is a course with continuous assessment (PI), therefore an overall attendance of at least 80% is required (i.e. compulsory attendance). If there is an important reason for the absence (e.g. illness confirmed by a medical certificate), the student can miss maximally 20% of the time.

The mode of conducting the course will be Distance Learning.

-Teaching/learning methods: a combination of online lectures and asynchronous learning.
-Student contribution: preparation of homeworks, online presentations, individual and group work.
-Student performance will be administrated on MyLEARN.

Performance assessment

• Homework(s) (20 points)
• Online exam(s) (60 points)
• Group work (20 points)
• Extra Points (Optional): Develop a Scenario (15 points)

       Grading Scale
       5: 0-49,99 points (unsatisfactory)
       4: 50-61,99 points (sufficient)
       3: 62-74,99 points (satisfactory)
       2: 75-86,99 points (good)
       1: 87-115 points (excellent)

• Expected workload:
  2 semester hours per week = 4 ECTS Credits = 100 hours workload for each student.

Only students who successfully passed the basic course (Course 1; GK1) of the specialization "IS Management and Control" are admitted.

A guided reading list will be provided and material will be uploaded to learn@wu.

Students are welcome to discuss course-related issues during weekly surgery hours or by appointment with the course lecturers