Business Information Technology

In today's world, technology plays a crucial role in every business, and having a digital heartbeat is essential for its survival.  The ability to understand and embrace technology is more crucial now than ever before.

This module (BUSN08067) aims to equip students with the foundations for understanding of technology within businesses.  It explores the generation, storage, evaluation, application, distribution, archival and recovery of corporate information using information systems (SI).  It aims to introduce commonly used information technology (IT) in organisations to students with no previous training in the subject.

Upon completion of this module, students will develop an awareness of the need to understand and appreciate business driven technology.  They should be able to appraise the various IT tools utilised by organizations such as technology infrastructures and information systems.  Students will be ready for integrating modern organisations and also be better innovators.

On successful completion of this module the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of a range of IT used in a modern business environment, including security risks posed by the use of sophisticated technology
• Understand the objectives, development, implementations and applications of Information Systems in modern organisations
• Evaluate the alignment between organisational needs and IT

This is an SCQF Level 8 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

To view the module descriptor, please visit Programme Specifications and Module Descriptors 

 

Delivery 

This module is delivered at our Paisley campus.  Timetable to be confirmed.

  

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by Dr Sabrina Azzi.

 

Funding

This course may be available on a fully funded basis to some delegates.  Further details, including regarding eligibility, are available under Funding Support.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@uws.ac.uk 

 

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment.  To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further enrolment information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.