Information Management

• Fundamentals of business information systems, in particular course it basics and information systems

• Basics of information management: approaches, subject area, information infrastructure, information infrastructure architecture, governance and information law.
• Strategic tasks of information management: situation analysis, goal planning, strategy development, action planning, IT risk management, IT security management, quality management, technology management, emergency management, controlling, auditing, sourcing decisions, strategic project management
• Reference models for architecture development: ITIL, COBIT, TOGAF
• Administrative tasks of information management
• Technological change and the need for software migration: strategies, types and planning
• Technological trends

Information management is aligned with strategic business goals and aims to create an information infrastructure that supports business requirements in the best possible way in order to enable the flexible adaptation of business models, optimize service quality and increase productivity. This course aims to identify the strategic and administrative fields of action of information management and to integrate them into an overall concept.

The students

• know the role of IT for a company (enabling business) and can identify, analyze and evaluate the cost components of an IT department.
• can describe the approaches (product-, process-, task-, information-, technology-oriented, ...) including the tasks of information management, compare the different approaches and evaluate them comparatively.
• know the methods and tools of information management, can use them adapted to the situation and recognize approaches for the further development of the selected methods and tools.
• know different reference models for the development of information and application architecture as well as similarities and differences and can assess their scope of application. They have an overview of the subtasks of the development of architectures as well as their design goals and construction rules.
• are able to analyze the business architecture for concrete cases in order to derive the necessary goals and measures for the further development of an information and application architecture.
• are able to recognize the necessary adjustments to IT management processes and plan systematic further development.

• Blended Learning - Flipped Classroom: Independent development of basic content
• Summary lectures and discussion rounds and selected guest lectures from companies/discussion rounds with company representatives
• Exercises with discussion rounds in small groups on special tasks/case studies
• Documentation, presentation and discussion of the respective work results

refection paper

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• Hanschke, Inge (2016): Enterprise Architecture Management - einfach und effektiv: Ein praktischer Leitfaden für die Einführung von EAM. 2., überarbeitete Auflage. München: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG.
• Heinrich, Lutz J. u.a. (2014): Informationsmanagement: Grundlagen, Aufgaben, Methoden. 11., vollst. überarb. Auflage. Berlin u.a.: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
• Keller, Wolfgang (2017): IT-Unternehmensarchitektur: Von der Geschäftsstrategie zur optimalen IT-Unterstützung. 3. überarb. u. erw. Auflage. Heidelberg: dpunkt.
• Krcmar, Helmut (2015): Informationsmanagement. 6., überarb. Aufl. 2015 Edition. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Gabler.

Course with contact hours online/on-site (presentations and discussions) and on-site (exams)