The course consists of the following content:
- Practical aspects of IT-management issues - The students should, based on existing research, analyze an information system management issue for instance information system security, modifiability, interoperability, data quality, reliability and usability, IT-Governance and IT business value. The analysis will be performed on a real industrial problem.
- Bayesian analysis - The students should employ Bayesian mathematics for the analysis of a given information system management issue. For instance, calculating the result of information security based on empirical data collected at a given company.
- Enterprise architecture modeling - The students should, given a previously created enterprise architecture modeling language, create instantiated models based on empirical data collected at a given company.
- Case study methodology - The students should, based on the planned case study of EH2040, carry an information system evaluation project focusing on a specific management issue in a given decision situation through. Each case study will be carried through at a real company.
The main outcome of the course Industrial Information Systems, Systems Engineering (EH2040) serves as input for this course. This means that the students are supposed to carry a case study through at a real company based on the investigation plan written in the former course. The most central part of this investigation plan is a framework for analysis of an IT-decision making problem. The framework consists of a Bayesian network coupled with an Enterprise Architecture modeling language (i.e. metamodel). Based on the analysis framework the students collect empirical data and perform the Bayesian analysis for their specific problem. The outcome of the course is therefore decision support in a real life IT-problem. The results are presented orally and in written form, for both fellow students and teachers at KTH and at the company where the case study was conducted.