Course description
This Diploma in Information Technology Management course explains the fundamental role IT plays in both the structure and control of modern businesses. The course covers why successful managers must have an excellent grasp of the functionality, capabilities, and effects of the technology they implement and manage. You will also gain an understanding of how to aid corporate strategies with information technology and how to identify different business frameworks.
The course will then help you identify the issues and benefits that globalization brings to companies worldwide. You will be guided through the essential topics of software management and database technologies, as well as the importance and functions of database management. You will then be shown how to build an information system, with particular attention to the early stages of building such systems.
The course will be of great benefit to entrepreneurs who want to improve their understanding of the management of Information Technology in the modern workplace. The lessons are also ideal for those considering a career in IT management or who want to boost their skills in this area. So why wait? Check out the course today and give your skills and résumé a great boost, for free.
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Training content
Module 1 Introduction to Information Technology for Managers
Description: This module discusses, what its meant by Information Technology. You will learn about how IT contributes to the workplace, major trends of IT and how IT can change your business.
- Learning Outcomes
- Overview of Information Technology in Workplace
- Contributions of IT to the Workplace.
- Information Technology and the Manager
- The Challenge of Change
- Six Major Trends and Implications for Management
- Lesson Summary
Module 2 Understanding and Interpreting Information
Description: This module discusses information, you will learn about what information is, what influences peoples interpretation information, information's characteristics and how turn you information into knowledge.
- Learning Outcomes
- What is Information?
- Interpreting Information
- Characteristics of Information
- From Information to Knowledge
- Decision Making
- Lesson Summary
Module 3 Diploma in Information Technology Management First Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: First Assessment
Module 4 Business frameworks and Information Technology
Description: This module discusses frameworks available to a business organisation, various applications IT adds to a business, and you will learn about different types of information systems.
- Learning Outcomes
- Frameworks for Information Technology
- A Framework Based on IT
- The Basics of Information Systems
- Lesson Summary
Module 5 Modern Organizations and Corporate Strategy
Description: This Module discusses, IT making your organisation more modern, informal and formal organisations, factors that influence structure and design of modern organisation. You will learn about variable in IT and the importance of IT in determining a corporate strategy.
- Learning Outcomes
- Modern Organizations
- Organizational Flexibility
- Strategic Issues of Information Technology
- Lesson Summary
Module 6 Diploma in Information Technology Management Second Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: Second Assessment
Module 7 Management control of Information
Description: This module discusses managerial control of a business organisation, tools for control to different levels of management, importance of auditing information system.
- Learning Outcomes
- Management Control
- Information and Control
- Management Issues and Security Issues
- Lesson Summary
Module 8 Information Technology and Globalization
Description: In this module you will learn about the globalisation of a company, impacts it has, global business strategies, government requirements and problems of global organisations.
- Learning Outcomes
- The Impact of Globalization on Business
- International Business Strategies
- Transnational Virtual Firms and IT
- Managing Information Technology Internationally
- Lesson Summary
Module 9 Diploma in Information Technology Management Third Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: Third Assessment
Module 10 Understanding Software and Database Technologies
Description: This module will teach you about the choice of software been important to a business, the difference between system and application software, programming languages and characteristics of a operating system.
- Learning Outcomes
- Managerial Concerns
- Programming Languages
- The Operating System
- Mobile Technologies
- Lesson Summary
Module 11 Database Management
Description: This module will teach you about databases, important aspects of their design, Functions of a database management system, and about SQL.
- Learning Outcomes
- File Elements
- Database Management Systems (DBMS's)
- Databases in System Design
- Lesson Summary
Module 12 Diploma in Information Technology Management Fourth Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: Fourth Assessment
Module 13 Building Information Systems
Description: This module will teach you about building information systems, you will learn about stages of a software design task, systems life cycle, different types of design and Object-oriented design.
- Learning Outcomes
- The Design Task
- A Systems Design Life Cycle
- User-Oriented Design
- Structured versus Object-Oriented Design
- Lesson Summary
Module 14 Systems Design - The Early Stages
Description: This module discusses the early stages of systems design and why they are the most crucial stages. you will learn about costs, benefits, problems, solutions in the early stage of designing a system.
- Learning Outcomes
- Systems Analysis
- Survey and Feasibility Study
- Identifying System Alternatives
- Undertaking Systems Design
- Lesson Summary
Module 15 Diploma in Information Technology Management Fifth Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: Fifth Assessment
Course assessment
- Assessment: Diploma in Information Technology Management - Final assessment
Certification / Credits
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss information technology for managers
- Discuss understanding and interpreting information
- Identify business frameworks
- Explain corporate strategy using information technology
- Identify management's control of information in a company
- Identify the issues and benefits of globalisation for a company
- Discuss software and database technologies
- Identify the importance and function of database management
- Discuss building an information system
- Identify the importance of the early stages of building an information system
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