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| GEST3011-2 | ICT for Business
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| Duration : | 16h Th, 16h Pr |
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| Number of credits : |
| Master in Aerospace Engineering, Professional Focus (Management), 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Architecture and Engineering, specialized approach, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Chemical and Material Sciences, specialized approach, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Civil Engineering, professional focus in management , 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Electrical Engineering, specialized approach, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Electro-mechanical Engineering, Professional Focus (Management), 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master of science in computer science and engineering, professional focus in management, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Computer Science, Professional Focus (Management), 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Mechanical Engineering, specialized approach, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Geological and Mining Engineering, specialized approach, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Engineering Physics, specialized approach, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Agricultural Bioengineering, Professional Focus, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Chemistry and Bio-industries, Professional Focus, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Environmental Bioengineering, Professional Focus, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Forests and natural Areas Engineering, Professional Focus, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Master in Mathematical Sciences, professional focus in management, 2nd year | | 3 |
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| Lecturer : | Alain Dubois |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| Systems thinking can be applied to real world's problematical situations involving both human and technological ressources and where it is difficult to intervene efficiently due to a complex net of incompatible requirements, many interdependences between the problem's variables and a high level of uncertainty.
Although this discipline has been applied to various domains such as sustainable development, change management or family therapy, we will mostly explore its potentialities in the context of information systems. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| We will learn to use concepts, tools and methods that enable the system practitionner to
- identify the main problems of a complex situation,
- examine its components,
- analyse interdependencies,
- understand the system as a whole,
- explore intervention possibilities.
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Cases, auto-evaluation exercises and various diagramming techniques will be used extensively. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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- 4 seminars (4 hours' duration) including theoretical lectures and workshops.
- Personal and group works to be carried out between seminars.
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Checkland, Peter & Poulter, John. Learning for action: a short definitive account of soft systems methodology ... Wiley, 2006. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The assessment is based on individual and group assignments carried out during the course :
- Systemic analysis of a personal problematic situation.
- Systemic analysis of an organizational problematic situation, in the internship company or another organization.
- Summary of chapter 4 case studies in the set textbook.
The final note will be composed of the average of these three assignments (50%) and an oral presentation of the two analysis and a randomly selected case study (50%). |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Alain Dubois, N1, Office 203, alain.dubois@ulg.ac.be |
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