Graduate Diploma of Business Information Systems

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This subject introduces students to activities, techniques, and methodologies a systems analyst uses to design information systems that, when built, enhance the organisation’s ability to meet its business goals via available technology. These include define requirements for system, model high-level behaviours of system, and design blueprint, that is, planning and implementation and will move through object-oriented approaches to analysis and design, the transformation of user requirements to system design. User empathy is promoted in this subject, using the unified modelling language (UML).

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Students will learn the importance of data to an organisation and the problems inherent in creating, storing, and managing that data. This subject will explore relational database design and modelling and students will learn how to handle data anomalies and the process of data integration. During this unit you will explore an organisation’s need for a data warehouse, learn about data visualisation and evaluate dashboard designs to view data. Students will examine the need for distributed data in today’s business environment.

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This subject is designed to introduce students to programming as a tool for developing systems and addressing business need. Students will be introduced to and employ an integrated development environment (IDE) to create, compile, test and run programs, applying object-oriented concepts to construct classes and methods. This unit will be tailored to student levels of expertise and expose students to a variety of programming languages to equip them with an understanding of the requirements in business. Illustrate the design of an application using universal modelling language (UML) diagrams.

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This unit is designed to prepare students for a career in a business information systems field as a Business Analyst (BA). They will gain insight into organisation and functions of a modern computer and communication and software components that support it. Through awareness of potential and limitations of systems and technologies students will work with testing and verifying data, develop confidence and competence in ability to understand, analyse, and apply information technology. The principles and importance of the agile methodology will be applied to the BA space.

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In this subject, students explore a variety of business process management theories and systems, including quality control, IT, and management theories. Promising technologies for next generation e-business and enterprise systems will be particularly discussed and practical tools used in enterprises, e.g., SAP, Oracle applications, will be demonstrated. This subject also emphasises the integration of software techniques and relationship to building an interface that business managers can use.

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The process of creation, from conception through distribution, is complicated and requires a diverse set of management skills. Students in this course are introduced to the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to manage projects successfully throughout a project life cycle, and to the language used by practitioners in conjunction with the terminology recognised by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Students explore the project management knowledge areas and process groups of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) guide. Students also examine the ways these two dimensions of project management interact in initiating (scoping), planning, executing (launching), monitoring and controlling, and closing a project.

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This subject examines the operation of a business in its environments including an analysis of the macro and micro influences on a business’ strategy, operations and decision making. Includes development of knowledge of the Australian legal framework and regulatory compliance; global economic, social and ethical principles that influence modern organisational decision making; and sources of competitive advantage.

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This subject introduces students to the concepts of business communications and transferable academic skills. This subject presents an analysis of the types of communication processes which occur in the internal and external business environment, including an examination of the theoretical underpinning of communication in businesses. Emphasis is placed on writing skills, reports, and presentations, and using technology to communicate. The course will provide students with research skills (information literacy), critical analysis, writing and language techniques. Transferable skills including time management and teamwork are incorporated in the course. The aim of this subject is to provide knowledge and skills needed for Higher Education, to help students to manage their own success and to assist students in reaching their academic potential.

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The subject focuses on risk management, risk assessment and risk mitigation plans, including the necessary communication plans and skills to ensure that incidents and risks are managed as safely as possible in a controlled manner.  The value of such activities is critically analysed to ensure that the effort expended is appropriate to the size of the risk.

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This subject seeks to build the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to succeed as an entrepreneur. These knowledge and skills are then applied to identify and evaluate innovative high-growth product and service opportunities in the context of a start-up, a corporation, a not for profit or a government institution. This subject equips students with practical skills, including creativity tools, cash-flow modelling, business model analysis and lean experimentation. Students prepare a business plan for a new venture, enabling them to integrate their theoretical and practical knowledge. Prerequisite: Financial Management

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This subject will enable students to apply their research skills to solving a managerial problem in their work context to utilise a work related project opportunity that has arisen from their progress on the MBA in their workplace. In an applied research project, students will analyse a real-world management problem of which he or she has experience or has been able to observe, such as poor financial performance, resistance to organisational change and loss of market share. The students are expected to analyse the problem in terms of relevant concepts and develop feasible options for solving the problem. The subject will contain a research methods component. Alternatively, students may use an organisational development opportunity being afforded to them by their organisation through some form of corporate training as the basis for this unit report. In this instance the assessment will be the application of the additional training to their work and an impact analysis of the training on their practice. Both options require elements of research methodology to be applied in the context of their workplace. Prerequisite: At least 32 units of MBA subjects.

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Technology impacts on most everything that we do in organisations, how we do deliver and perform, and how efficiently we manage our operations. Technology strategy therefore focuses on making the right decisions about the deployment of technology in line with business strategy and the risks associated with making the wrong technology decisions. The subject employs a range of research methods to draw up scenarios for decision making, and requires the students to present the case for a technology innovation strategy to a board of stakeholders. Prerequisite: Management Information Systems

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This subject is underpinned by notions that are measured by the triple bottom line: economic, social and environmental costs and benefits. The subject explores the competitive advantage to be gained through sustainable practices and requires students to develop a sustainability strategy for an organisation of their choice. This subject explores the issues of social justice and human rights more fundamentally than other subjects as sustainability issues for the future.

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Benchmarking and the ability to collect, analyse and present benchmarking data to influence organisational decision making is a core competence for many organisations. This subject develops students’ analytical skills and understanding of benchmarking processes and procedures before supporting them in a benchmarking exercise of their own.

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This subject introduces students to the law, the role of the law and the impact the law has in its operation on managerial and business practice. Contract, tort, intellectual property, agency and employment law are considered, as well as means and methods of considering dispute resolution. How these are contextualised internationally is explored.

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The use of, control of, manipulation and presentation of data in organisations is becoming increasingly important in the management of stakeholder expectations. This subject explores the role of managing information systems, the impact of technological change on the management of information, and the risks associated with poor information management. Students work with case studies and scenarios to develop strategies for reviewing management information systems in their own contexts.