Global ICT Practice
HIT8434
Overview
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Level of study: What does Postgraduate mean?
Postgraduate
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
Duration:
13 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$2,200.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$2,425.00 (AUD)
Description
This unit aims to provide students with an appreciation of the global context of the IT industry and attendant professional, cultural and operational issues. Students will consider the ways in which ICT is driving and enabling globalisation, and come to appreciate the challenges and issues of this on business. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of how global companies organise and deliver their required IT services, through global standards, global technologies and architectures, various sourcing models, and global strategies. The unit will emphasise the importance of cultural differences and their impacts on global teams, especially global project teams and software development teams.
Enrolment Restriction
In order to enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into one of the following courses:
If you wish to seek approval to enrol in this unit without being accepted in a course, please contact OUA regarding the process.
Prerequisites
You should complete a university level unit covering introductory information systems before commencing this unit.
Assessment
- Assignments (30%)
- Group Project (30%)
- Invigilated Exam (40%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- independently investigate the global context of the IT and communication industry and the attendant professional, cultural and operational issues
- identify and critically analyse cultural models to understand the impact of culture on the adoption of technology and the operation of multicultural teams
- understand the impact of globalisation and the role of technology in its proliferation
- identify global technology organisations their structures and their effectiveness in the use and sale of technology in a global context
- identify and understand the differences in the adoption of technology by geography through both cultural and national differences
- identify and consider the adoption of technology trends that support globalisation and how they are adopted in a local setting. Examples to be considered are cloud computing, green IT and the virtual office
- identify and critically assess the validity of global standards in ICT. Examples to be considered would be ITIL/ISO PMBOK, Prince 2,the Open Source GPL and CMMI
- undertake professional project management processes through the use of project planning and team management tools
- understand and evaluate the outsourcing and offshoring options for an organisation, and assess their impact on the ability to deliver globally on required IT services for an organisation.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Globalisation and its impact on IT |
| 2 | Cultural differences and their impact on technology |
| 3 | National differences in technology adoption in geographic regions |
| 4 | Doing ICT business globally |
| 5 | Global technologies and architectures |
| 6 | Global standards applied in ICT |
| 7 | Working with cultural differences |
| 8 | IT enabled global supply chain |
| 9 | Emerging technologies and their impact on globalisation |
| 10 | Managing global IT teams |
| 11 | Outsourcing and offshoring, and their impacts of the delivery of IT services globally |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Instructional Methods
- Blogs
- Chat rooms
- Discussion Forum/Discussion Board
- Online Quizzes/Tests
- Online assignment submission
- Podcasting/Lecture capture
- Standard Media
- Streaming Multimedia
- Web links
Relevant Courses
This unit is a core requirement in the following courses:
This unit is an approved elective in the following courses:
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
