This course is intended to help students learn about and analyze the phenomena of online communities and open innovation. The potential of OI to revolutionize markets and businesses will be a core part of the course.
Course will examine how information technology advances are transforming
work practices, improving knowledge exchange, and facilitating
collaboration across time and space. The course develops a review of the
existing research literature on the reciprocal impact of information
technology on organizations and organizing.
Types of organizational knowledge and their value for organizations, analyzing knowledge processes, and assessing tools and technologies for managing knowledge.
Management of organizational data, implementation of database management systems, and the roles and responsibilities of data management personnel. Explores different models of data representation with an emphasis on the relational model; simple and complex SQL queries.
How information technology has impacted and changed work, processes, and markets. Successful technology deployment and strategies are identified and analyzed.
