1.

Week 1: Intro
1. Information Technology (IT) vs Information Systems (IS)
- Business env: Everything external to a business that can affect its funcioning,
inc: competitors, suppliers, customers, regulatory agencies & social economic
conditions.
- Business:
- Business processes:
- IS: information technology, organizational infrastructure and trained ppl to
collect, process, store, provide information needed to complete business process
- IT: computer, communication hardware + software that make IS possible

2. Week 2: Business Analytics

1. DATA INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE WISDOM
- DATA: Facts and figures without any real context or meaning.
- INFORMATION: Data that has been made meaningful and helps someone
understand something.
- KNOWLEDGE: Information that has been incorporated into someones view
of the world.
- WISDOM: knowing Why things at the way they are, knowing the right
thing to do
=> DIKW pyramid

2. Business Analytics
a) Def:

b) Why it imp?
c) Forms of Business Analytics (3)
- Descriptive Analytics: past & current business performance - Predictive
Analytics: Analysis of past performance in an effort to predict the future
- Prescriptive Analytics: What should do to maximine profits
3. Behavior of customers change
due to location/convinience + age

3. Week 3: Data Visualisation

1. Data visualisation is the visual representation of data
2. Types (5):
chart, graph, map, imp text theme, Inforgraphic
3. Why is it imp?
- Problems: overloaded data
=> to communicate key inf quickly

4. Week 4: Business Design Opportunities

1. System:
- Def: A system is a collection of interrelated components that function
together to achieve some predefined purposes or objectives
+ In a system, there can be many sub-system. Which can be a system by itself
ex: a computer has keyboard, screen, mouse, which are all smaller systems
Systems Characteristic
Components
Boundary
Environment
Interfaces
Inputs
Outputs
Constraints
Stakeholders
2. TOP (Tech-Org-Ppl)

Explaination

5. Week 5: Social Networks and Mobile Technologies

What is Web 2.0? What is Social Media?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iStkxcK6_vY

- To appreciate the importance of Social Media and its role in Mobile

platforms;
- Basic terminology and concepts relating to Social Networks;
- Importance of Web 2.0 in business operations;
- Concepts relating to Mobile Technologies;
- Business applications of Social Networks and Mobile Technologies.

6. Week 6: Database Management Systems

Database is a collection of information or data that stored on a computer, allow
you to access, enter, analysis in the way you never could on papers.
A collection of lists on computers to organise and search data
Use tables in Excel: store + organize NUMBERS
Use Access: analysis + connect data of other types
=> Relational database ability to understand relationships: Relational
Database is a collection of tables related to one another by common data
elements.