IN5430 – IT and Management
Course description
Course content
In this course you learn about managerial challenges related to development, implementation and management of IT solutions in organizations. A specific focus is on the challenges posed by socio-technical, complex, large-scale and interconnected IT solutions. The lectures and readings in the course present approaches, models and frameworks found in IT management practices, and offer a research-based view on the topics. You will participate in a project where you apply this knowledge to an empirical study within a real-world organization.
Learning outcome
After you have completed the course you can:
- describe common approaches, models and frameworks for IT management and governance, project management and enterprise architectures in organizations.
- describe theoretical perspectives on the opportunities and challenges associated with IT governance, project management and enterprise architectures.
- discuss the challenges of inter-organizational and sector-wide IT governance.
- describe the connection between governance models and enterprise architectures.
- can plan, organize, and report from a project where you collect and analyze data to document and assess the IT governance model of an organization.
- utilize your practical and theoretical basis for critical reflection on how IT is managed in organizations.
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants
Recommended previous knowledge
INF3290 – Store og komplekse informasjonssystemer (continued) og IN5210 – Information Systems
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with INF5890 – IT and Management (continued).
- 5 credits overlap with IN4150 – Digital Ecosystems.
- 5 credits overlap with IN5431 – IT and Management.
Teaching
2 hours lectures and 2 hours seminars per week.
First lecture is mandatory
Examination
The home exam is 40% of the final grade (this assignment itself consists for 3 different submissions and must be passed the same semester as the oral exam). The oral exam constitutes the remaining 60%. Both must be passed individually. The home exam must be passed to be allowed to take the oral exam.
It will also be counted as one of?your three?attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses:?INF5890 - IT and Management (continued).
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F?is a fail. Read more about?the grading system.
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are?offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester. Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass the original examination.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.