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Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Recommend appropriate proposals for digital decision support systems in organisations.
• Assess decision support requirements in organisations.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Effectively use a data analysis tool.
• Collaborate in groups to solve data related problems.
• Develop detailed reports of appropriate complexity for a given audience.
• Communicate data analysis results in a meaningful way.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The role of knowledge in decision making in organisations.
• The capabilities and limitations of information systems in supporting decisions.
• The theory and practice of decision support and analysis.

• Fundamental of organisational decision making, qualitative complexity, and implication of information systems
• Fundamentals of business intelligence, data warehousing, data mining and big data
• Fundamentals of knowledge and knowledge management
• Decision making and modelling approaches
• Codification of knowledge and expert systems
• Group decision support systems

The module consists of seminars, case studies, demonstrations and practical sessions (computer laboratory sessions) as well as guest lectures from the leading experts from the industry. Computer facilities will be booked for use by this module.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Questions and answers

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: - In-lecture review questions/problems. - Response to students' questions during lectures, classes or through other means (e.g. email and Blackboard-Discussion Board).
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.