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Abstract
The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of "real-life" computer science challenges in business settings and teach them how to address these.
Objective
Students will learn important considerations of companies when applying information technology in practice, including costs, economic value and risks of information technology use, or impact of information technology on business strategy and vice versa. They will get insight into how companies have used or are using information technology to be successful. Students will also learn how to assess information technology decisions from different viewpoints, including technical experts, IT managers, business users, and business top managers. The course will equip participants to understand the role computer science and information technology plays in different companies and to contribute to respective decisions as they enter into practice.
Content
The course consists of multiple lectures on economics of information technology, business and IT strategy, and how they are interlinked, and a set of relevant case studies. They address how companies become more successful using information technology, how bad information technology decisions can hurt them, and they look into a number of current challenges companies face regarding their information technology. The cases are taken both from documented international case studies as well as from Swiss companies participating in the course. The learned concepts will be applied in exercises, which form a key component of the course.