Enterprises competing in contemporary dynamic markets must respond to the ever-increasing rates of change in a sustainable manner. Focuses on integrated cross-functional enterprise systems how they can be leveraged and enhanced to support adaptive and sustainable enterprises. A range of areas including Context-aware strategy/change/process/risk/performance management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Cloud Computing, Analytics, and Mobility will be discussed holistically.
The goals of the course are to introduce students to: a) What it means to be an adaptive and sustainable enterprise b) How to architect an adaptive sustainable intelligent enterprise c) Procedural and technological responses towards sustainable adaptation Possible career paths include enterprise architect, decision scientist, systems analyst, and business analyst.
By the end of this course, students will be able to: Explain (a) the need for adaptation and sustainability and (b) fundamental principles of adaptation and sustainability from a variety of disciplines. (Capability 1, 4.1 and 4.3) Outline (a) how enterprises can adapt and be sustainable (b) various perspectives on architecting an adaptive sustainable intelligent enterprise. (Capability 2, 3 and 4.3) Discuss and reflect on procedural and technological mechanisms/responses to adapt and sustain an enterprise; deliberate as well as emergent; rational and anarchical; and balancing on the edge of chaos. (Capability 4.1 and 4.3) Conduct a business analysis of an enterprise�s vision, industry, strategy, value chain, processes, services, systems and applications. (Capability 2, 3 and 5.1) Recommend in a written format (a) the appropriate systems landscape (to support an enterprise�s processes) and (b) the appropriate technological architecture and infrastructure (to support an enterprise�s processes and systems). (Capability 2, 3 and 4.2) Recommend in a written format the various mechanisms that could be leveraged to bring about the sustainable transformation of the enterprise. (Capability 2, 3 and 6)