36 Hours

Hawthorn

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

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Aims & Objectives:

After successfully completing this unit, you should be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of organisational management and fundamental business strategies and apply techniques to achieve successful business outcomes
• Apply supply chain management techniques and Porter’s value chain principles to business situations
• Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental computer hardware and apply that knowledge to produce hardware configuration specifications for a business context
• Demonstrate knowledge of various desktop and server operating systems and be able to explain the fundamental differences between them
• Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental networking principles and design and apply that knowledge to produce a network design model for a simple business problem
• Demonstrate knowledge of Work Flow Modelling techniques
• Demonstrate knowledge of various UML diagrams, specifically System Sequence Diagrams and Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Use Case Diagrams, and identify their components.

Teaching Methods:

Assessment:

Content:

• Grades of hardware and operating systems
• Single and multiple CPU and core architectures
• Data communication protocols, routers, gateways, security and firewalls
• Data organisation and management systems
• Web servers and server loads
• Modelling of business organisations/ Organisational Structures
• Business applications/ resource planning systems
• Supply chain management/ value chain management

References:

J McGovern, S Ambler,M Stevens, J Linn, V Aharran, E Jo. A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture, Prentice Hall 2004

John Satizinger, Robert Jackson, Stephen Burd : Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World 4th Edition: Thomson Publication

Alan Evans, Kendall Martin, Mary Ann Poatsy: Technology in Action 2nd Edition Prentice Hall