Management Information Systems

Ability to identify the information and information processes that belong to each of the company's systems.
Ability to interact with other people not linked to business management studies (computer engineers and other ICT professionals).
Ability to analyze the function of information technologies in business systems.
Knowledge of the business opportunities provided by the use of new technologies.
Ability to perceive and assess the importance of the information system for business decision-making.

Item 1: INFORMATION SYSTEM IN THE COMPANY
Item 2: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE COMPANY
Item 3: DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Item 4: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Basic
ARJONILLA, Jesús; MEDINA, José Aurelio (2010): La gestión de los sistemas de información en la empresa. Teoría y casos prácticos. Madrid: Pirámide
GÓMEZ VIEITES, A.; SUÁREZ REY, C. (2011): Sistemas De Información: Herramientas Practicas para la Gestión Empresarial. Madrid: Rama.
LAUDON, K.C.; LAUDON, J.P. (2016). Sistemas de información gerencial (14th edición). México: Pearson

Complementary
COHEN KAREN, D.; ASÍN LARES, E. (2005). Sistemas de información para los negocios. Un enfoque de toma de decisiones. México: McGraw-Hill
DE PABLOS HEREDERO, C., LÓPEZ HERMOSO AGIUS, J.J., MARTÍN-ROMO ROMERO, S.; MEDINA SALGADO, S. (2019). Organización y transformación de los sistemas de información en la empresa. Madrid: ESIC (e-book)

Teachers may recommend specific bibliography for each topic.

Basic Competence:
CB04. That students know how to communicate their conclusions –and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that support them– to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
CB05. That students have the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.

General Competencies:
CG02. Ability to have a strategic vision of business problems.
CG06. Ability to communicate information, ideas, business management problems -of a generic or specific nature- and proposed solutions.
CG08. Mastery of various tools, instruments and management methods necessary to run a company.
CG09.Capacity to identify, gather and interpret relevant data on issues related to business management.

Specific Competences:
CE06. Ability to manage the operations and information systems of the company.

Transversal competences:
CT2. Critical thinking ability.
CT3. Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CT4. Organization and planning capacity.
CT5. Ability to argue and communicate.
CT6. Ability to integrate and work into teams of diverse composition.

The exhibition sessions (lectures) are intended to introduce students to the management of the information system and its impact on customer satisfaction and organizational results. The didactic approach aims to train students by promoting the understanding of the information processes that underpin business decisions and the modelling of various problems in order to promote the quality of decisions. In the interactive sessions, the aim is for students to apply theoretical concepts, work as a team and develop communication skills, particularly presentation and argumentation.

To develop the subject the following guidelines are established:

• The presentation of the theme and presentation of work materials be supplemented with exercises and cases that encourage participation and discussion.
• Explanations adjusted to the starting level of the students will be provided. The subject is considered as an introduction to the contents established.
• Connection between the transmitted content and reality. Both examples and cases, whenever possible, will focus on real events.
• The theoretical contents of the subject will be developed in lectures of 2 hours, 1 day a week. The practical part will develop in interactive classes in small group of 1.5 hours, 1 day per week.

The expository and interactive sessions will take place face-to-face at the official time published by the centre.

For asynchronous activities and for the delivery of tasks, a mailbox will be enabled in the virtual classroom with the delivery deadline.

Attendance at the sessions is mandatory, so the teachers of each group will monitor the attendance of the students and their participation in the sessions.

Participation in the exhibition and interactive sessions will be complemented by the students' personal work, which includes, among others, activities to search for information and bibliographic material, read such material and prepare and defend individual or collaborative works.

This autonomous work will be guided by the teachers in the hours assigned to tutoring, which will serve to solve doubts and solve problems that the students face in the teaching-learning process. The tutorials will also serve as a feedback channel on the results obtained.

The tutorials will take place in a face-to-face or virtual manner (using the Microsoft Teams corporate tool) at the usual time officially published by the teachers.

The development of the subject will be carried out with the support of the virtual teaching classroom created for this purpose on the Moodle platform.

The evaluation of the subject is carried out following a process of continuous evaluation in which all the activities that must be carried out throughout the semester are taken into account, considering aspects such as clarity and expository capacity, mastery of terminology of the subject or active participation (50%), and an exam focused mainly on the evaluation of the knowledge acquired, with a weight in the final evaluation of 50%. The weight of the activities within the continuous evaluation will be specified at the beginning of the course in the teaching guide of the subject.
For cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for evaluating student academic performance and reviewing qualifications (Normativa de evaluación del rendimiento académico del estudiantado y de revisión de cualificaciones) will apply.

Students who are granted exemption from class attendance (following Instrucción Nº 1/2017 de la Secretaría Xeral sobre la dispensa de asistencia a clase en determinadas circunstancias), will be evaluated with a specific final exam that will mean 100% the note.

There are two opportunities to pass the subject. Students who do not pass the subject on the first opportunity will have the right to a second one, which will be the one that appears on their academic record in the event that the grade achieved is higher.
The evaluation system for these two opportunities is shown below.

Ordinary first chance
A) Continuous evaluation: Participation in class, resolution and participation in case analysis, discussion of readings, completion and presentation of group/individual work and other activities linked to interactive classes. Weight in the final grade: 50%.
In this part the following competencies will be evaluated: CB4, CB5, CG2, CG6, CG9, CE6, CT4, CT5, CT6.
B) Final content exam. Weight in the final grade: 50%.
In this part the following competences will be evaluated: CG8, CE6, CT2, CT3.

Second Extraordinary Recovery Chance:
The same evaluation system will be applied as in the first opportunity, that is, a new final content exam will be carried out, with the weighting established for the first opportunity, which will be added to the score achieved in the continuous evaluation.

In accordance with the Regulations for Permanence in force at the USC for Bachelor and Master studies (art. 5.2) (Normativa de Permanencia vigente en la USC para los estudios de Grado y Máster), mere attendance and/or participation in any of the activities subject to evaluation will mean that the student's final grade is different from NO PRESENTED.

Repeating students will be subject to the same evaluation system.

This is a 4.5 course and each credit is equivalent to 25 hours (total 112.5 hours).
Hours will be distributed in the following way:
- Presence time (expositive, interactive, tutoring and assessment): 45
- Students individual work: 67.5

There are no prerequisites, although it is advisable to have basic knowledge of business organization, about the disciplines related to the operating environment of the company and Business Computing.