ITL28019 IT Strategy (Spring 2025)

Mandatory course in:

• Bachelor in Information Systems - Software Engineering

Elective course for others.

• IT strategy as a part of the overall business strategy
• IT strategy and objectives
• The IT function - enabling the business ecosystem
• Processes, applications, infrastructure, people
• Strategy execution and governance
• IT Governance: business and IT alignment (ISO 38500)
• IT service management (ITIL)
• Control and monitoring (COBIT)

Knowledge

The student

• gains a solid understanding of strategic challenges and is able to identify and analyze which components are crucial for an organization's ability to create value over time.
• will learn about sustainability, social responsibility, ethics, and what is required to make strategic decisions influenced by internal and external conditions.
• will learn about a variety of strategic approaches and discuss the consequences of these approaches for structure, choice, and implementation.
• will understand how strategy is linked to other subject areas such as financial management, logistics, marketing, and organization, as well as the role of digitalization."

Skills

The student can

• identify and understand the challenges a business faces both internally and externally, as well as the elements that are crucial for creating value for a business.
• perform a strategic analysis of a business.
• be able to discuss issues related to strategic choices, so that the student can see the connection between implementation and organizational challenges related to sustainability, social responsibility, and ethical issues.
• be able to present a strategic project to a board or a management group.
• understand the business's social responsibility and how ethics, stakeholder values, environment, sustainability, and value creation are interconnected, including digital problems.

Group based portfolio and oral exam in groups

The exam consists of two components:

A portfolio comprising of up to 4 deliverables. The deliverables (groups of 3-8 students) must be delivered within given deadlines and according to specifications given by the course instructor. A tentative individual grade is awarded on the basis of an overall assessment. This grade can be adjusted up to 2 stages at the oral exam.
Grading scale A to F. The portfolio must have received a passed grade before the oral exam can be given.

Oral exam in group of 3-8 students: Duration approx. 20-40 min. On the oral exam, each member of the group will be given individual questions related to the curriculum. No support materials permitted. An individual grade is awarded using grading scale A to F.

An overall individual final grade is awarded for the course using grading scale A to F

In the case of resit or rescheduled examinations, each part of the examination may be retaken.

In the case of resit and rescheduled examinations, the content of the portfolio must be agreed with the course instructor.

Resit/rescheduled exam must be taken in connection with the next ordinary course examination. The department management may, however, decide to arrange a deferred examination in the following semester for students with valid absence from the regular examination.

This course is evaluated by a

• End-of-term evaluation (compulsory)

The responsible for the course compiles a report based on the feedback from the students and his/her own experience with the course. The report is discussed by the study quality committee of the faculty of Computer Sciences.