This course provides an appreciation of how information, IT and information systems through globalisation, relate in the total enterprise for business strategy and success in the global marketplace. This course uses business analysis and develops a problem solving approach to IT based solutions to global business issues and problems in a contemporary workplace situation. You will use research techniques, fundamental for business practice and strategy to uncover, explore and then resolve global impacts through IT on business practice in all international contexts. Research skills applicable to Business IT research form an integral part of the course. The integration of work-based learning and academic learning, commonly referred to as Work Integrated Learning (WIL), will allow you to solve authentic business problems or address real issues faced in organisations.

If you are undertaking this course in Melbourne from semester 2, 2012 onwards your teacher will advise you if you require access to a computer for the course. It is recommended that you have access to a mobile computing device to allow greater flexibility in terms of where you can work on campus outside class times.