University of Galway

Course Module Information

Course Modules

Semester 2 | Credits: 5

This module is designed to give students exposure to a broad enterprise information and operations management education relevant to a modern business degree. The module explores the challenges facing businesses in a global extended enterprise, and introduces a number of tools and processes that businesses use to retain competitive advantage and maintain profitably. To tackle the challenge of managing enterprise operations, firms are leveraging and deploying information and infrastructural resources to exploit business opportunities. As much work is now open, decentralised and distributed, firms increasingly rely on Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) to improve communication flows between central organisational hubs and distributed virtual teams. This module explains how firms are managing business processes and enabling innovation with the use of complex technology architectures.

Learning Outcomes
  1. Develop an understanding of how information systems work within organisations
  2. Recognise and describe how information is used within organisations, both broadly and to support decision making
  3. Describe and explore global collaboration and social networking
  4. Demonstrate how innovation and ICT can be used for competitive advantage
  5. Discuss critical issues concerning information and data security and privacy
  6. Understand the importance of the people, process and technology relationship in operations within an organisation
  7. Generate and prioritise alternative solutions for real life operations problems
  8. Present information technology solutions to operations problems
  9. Complete several continuous assessment test to reinforce the student’s knowledge of their subject
  10. Complete MCQ tests that reflect their understanding of the subject
Assessments
  • Written Assessment (100%)
The above information outlines module MS217: "Information and Operations Management" and is valid from 2018 onwards.
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.