Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

NOVA Information Management School

Architectures for Information Technology

Code

200007

Academic unit

NOVA Information Management School

Credits

7.5

Teacher in charge

Vítor Manuel Pereira Duarte dos Santos

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

Objectives

Soon

Prerequisites

N/A

Subject matter

Part 1 - Information Systems - (what is this?)
  Fundamentals (Elephants, t-shirts and bottles of wine ...)
  Viable systems
Part 2 - Knowing the present (now)
  Organizations Systemic characterization (under the bridge of ICT view)
  Architectures for what?
  Business Architecture
    - Organizational Skills
  Process Architecture
    - Structured Analysis (SSADM)
    - Analysis Oriented to Processes (BPM)
  Information Architecture
Part 3 - Thinking about tomorrow (the day after)
  Information system planning (ISP)
    - Concepts & Approaches
    Alignment between the Business and Information Systems
    BSP - CRUD Matrix - Process / Informational Entities
    GAP Characterization (IS needs / existing coverage - on the CRUD matrix)
    Identifying Information Systems Opportunities (ISO)
    - Creativity and innovation in Information Systems
    - ISO Description
    - Organic X ISO matrix
    Using IS Architecture Frameworks
    Proposing a new Information System Architecture
Part 4 - Building a New Information System
    Identification the target Application Systems (ASs)
     - Grouping ISO with the existing ASs
     - Characterizing ASs
     - McFarlan matrix with target ASs
    Application Architecture
    Data Architecture
    Technological Architectures
    Building an Information Systems Implementation Plan
    A (small) introduction to Software Engineering
Part 5 - Maintain (keep the business rolling)
    Auditing
    Continuous improvement
 

Bibliography

¿Enterprise Architecture Planning, Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications and Technology¿. Steven H. Spewak, Wiley-QED, 1992. - ISBN 0 471 599859; Cook, Melissa A., Building Enterprise Information Architectures: Reengineering Information Systems, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-440256-1, 1996.; Bernus, Peter, Günter Schmidt (Eds.), Architectures of Information Systems, Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems, Springer, pp.1-9, ISBN 3-540-64453-9, 1998.; Laudon, J.P e Laudon, K.C. (2010) ¿Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 11th edition¿, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall;; O¿Brien, James A. (2004) ¿Management Information Systems: Managing Information Technology in the E-Business Enterprise, 6th edition¿ Boston, Massachusetts: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Incorporated.

Teaching method

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Evaluation method

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