APPLIES TO ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

INF 3628 Digital enterprise development - RE-SIT EXAMINIATION

Responsible for the course
Petter Gottschalk

Department
Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

Term
According to study plan

ECTS Credits
7,5

Language of instruction
Norwegian

Introduction
Digital enterprise development is concerned with inter and intra-organizational business processes that simplify, automate and enable electronic business. While management and employees carry out knowledge work, information and communication technology handle information work. Students learn how digital business processes cooperate with knowledge processes in the organization and between organizations. Digital enterprise development is based on electronic business concepts and use of information technology to support knowledge work. E-business as a field of study has been captured in terms of two major phases. This course is concerned with the second phase. While the first phase was powerful and too promising, with significant disappointments, the second phase is characterized by a solid theoretical and practical foundation in terms of strategy, business models, value configurations and knowledge management.

Learning outcome
Knowledge objectives
At the end of this course, student should have acquired

• knowledge of key characteristics of digital business development
• insights into theories and models for development and exploitation of digital business models and processes
• an understanding of interoperability between supporting technology, processes and business development
• insights into information technology in knowledge management supporting e-business
• knowledge in terms of know-what, know-how and know-why related to digital business development in knowledge organizations by applying the value configuration of the value shop.

• provide a description of process digitalization
• analyse consequences for the enterprise when introducing e-business
• formulate specifications and requirements related to functional features and how they are to be implemented to define knowledge levels and knowledge
• categories in digital business development

• a holistic perspective regarding consequences of digital processes, including ethical dilemmas and self-services implications
• a curiosity to understand knowledge development in e-business
• an interest in identifying possibilities for digital business in an organization
• a willingness to champion digital business in a firm
• an ability to imagine what a digital firm is like

• Key concepts in electronic business
• Internet – possibilities and limitations
• Information security
• Value configurations
• Supply chain integration
• Knowledge management
• Knowledge support systems
• Knowledge administration in business processes
• Governance of IT resources