ENTP6383 - IT Strategy and Innovation

ENTP 6383 IT Strategy and Innovation (3 semester credit hours) This course explores how information technology (IT) is changing organizations and enabling transformation to create value, as well as examines critical issues stemming from managing technology to deliver value. Today, behaviors, structures, and strategies must co-evolve with IT to create new capabilities that businesses need to compete and survive. Co-evolution results in new business models that ultimately impact markets, customer expectations, value propositions, and entire ecosystems of businesses. The course covers emergent business issues, such as cloud-based computing, cyber risk management, personalization, balancing security and flexibility, talent management, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), etc. It marries the latest research with real-world experiences of senior IT managers, using cases and mini cases to examine complex decisions facing today's organizations. By the end of the course, students will have the confidence and ability to effectively develop IT strategy and drive innovation to deliver business value. (3-0) R