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MIS30070

Academic Year 2024/2025

Digital Innovation: Managing and working in the Information Age (MIS30070)

Subject:
Management Information Systems
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
3 (Degree)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Professor Séamas Kelly
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Despite a widespread acceptance that modern digital technologies have transformed contemporary social and organisational life, popular understandings of the nature of such transformations, their social and economic implications, and approaches to managing them are not well developed. This module attempts to address this problem by exploring the relationship between information technology and organisation, with a view to better understanding a range of important contemporary social and management issues. In so doing, it will draw on bodies of social and organisation theory to develop insightful perspectives for understanding and managing processes of technology-enabled organisational innovation.
The ideas developed in this module are intended to provide an enduring perspective that can help managers make sense of an increasingly globalised and technology-intensive business environment. Armed with a more sophisticated understanding of such issues, the student will be better equipped for the challenges of living, working and managing in a digital age.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

- Demonstrate a critical appreciation for the role of information, knowledge and digital technologies in contemporary organisational life.
- Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the complexity of processes of ICT-enabled organisational innovation and the challenges associated with managing them.
- Demonstrate a good appreciation for the circumstances under which digital innovation processes are likely to lead to 'successful' outcomes, and for promising approaches to managing such initiatives.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and communication skills in relation to contemporary discourses on digital innovation and its management.

Indicative Module Content:

Topics covered are likely to include: 'knowledge' and its production, organisation and management; artificial 'intelligence' and its limits; emergent modes of distributed collaboration; 'big data' and decision-making; and, the implications for privacy, surveillance and control in information-intensive digital environments.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

24
Specified Learning Activities

100
Total

124

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Seminar-based, interactive approach, with an emphasis on reading, reflecting, writing, discussing, and presenting.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Incompatibles:
MIS40650 - Knowledge, Power, Agency & AI


 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Participation in Learning Activities: Short weekly reflections and contributions to in-class discussions. Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 Graded No
25
 No
Group Work Assignment: Each student group will be required to do a short, in-class presentation during ONE class in the course of the term. The sequence of group presentations will be negotiated at the beginning of term. Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 Graded No
15
 No
Exam (In-person): Final examination. End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Graded No
60
 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Individual feedback will be provided on student presentations. General group/class feedback will be provided regularly on the weekly reflections submitted.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 11:00 - 12:50
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