Description: This course introduces the basic
principles of strategic thinking and shows how these principles can be used to
strategically plan, integrate, secure and administer the complex information
systems that support and drive the current and future digital enterprises. The
first part of the course introduces systems engineering principles and reviews
the emerging features of current and future enterprises (e.g., globalization, service
orientation, reliance on web and mobile services, globalization, and agility).
The focus is on establishing a strategic view of modern enterprises in the
public and private sector. The second
part explicates the role of ICT to enable and drive such enterprises and explains
the building blocks of the modern ICT systems that span business processes,
enterprise applications, databases, computing and platforms, and wired/wireless
network services. The final segment
explores how the needed IT systems can be planned, engineered/re-engineered,
integrated, secured and managed by using the best practices and common standards
in governance, enterprise architectures and systems engineering. Extensive case
studies and examples will be used and hands-on experiments with available
computer aided planning tools will be emphasized throughout the course.
Note: This is a graduate level course that
is currently being converted to an online format .
Course Description: Modern digital enterprises are
characterized by increased automation, mobile services, extended B2B operations
with global business partners, and on-demand business services. The main issue
in such enterprises is to architect and integrate a very wide range of services
quickly and effectively. This course
presents a ‘systems’ perspective based on service oriented architecture (SOA)
that combines processes, people and technologies and
highlights the role of information and communication technologies,
enterprise models, and emerging SOA standards in developing flexible and
integrated business architectures.
Within the conceptual framework, the topics continually evolve as new
technologies, techniques, methodologies and standards emerge. The course is
roughly divided into four phases. The first phase concentrates on business
processes, enterprise models, and enterprise applications. The second
phase introduces and reviews the basic techniques that are needed to
support enterprise architectures and integration. The third and fourth phases
concentrate on developing and evaluating integrated architectures by using the
latest thinking in service oriented architectures (SOA), architecture
frameworks, integration patterns, and evaluation techniques. A wide range of
case studies (successes and failures) will be discussed and hands on
integration projects will be assigned for experimentation with available
tools.
Note: This is a graduate level course that
is currently being converted to an online format .
Umar, A. and
Ivanovski, A., ”Computer Aided Strategic
Planning for eGovernment Agility: A Global Instrument for Developing Countries”,
Invited
Paper, AAAI (Association
for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Symposium
on “AI & Business Agility”,
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Evaluation
of ICTs for Accelerating MDGs: Myths versus Reality
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Planning
and Integration of Health Information Networks in Developing Countries
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Planning
and Integration of
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Establishing
Supply Chains for Food Distribution
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Developing
ICT Communities in Developing Countries
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Developing
Flexible Disaster Recovery Systems
Note: These research projects are
currently being pursued by graduate students at the
.