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Title Digital Business Technology and Management
Code EBUS603
Coordinator Dr D Li
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Dongli@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2022-23 Level 7 FHEQ First Semester 15

Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements):
 

Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on a required basis:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on an optional basis:
 

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 24

 6

       6

 36
Timetable (if known) 120 mins X 1 totaling 24
  		60 mins X 1 totaling 6
  		      60 mins X 1 totaling 6
  		 
Private Study 114
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Essay report 1. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. Anonymous assessment.  0    50       
Essay report 2. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. Anonymous assessment.  0    40       
Group video presentation. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment.  15    10       

Aims

The aim of this module is to give the student a critical awareness of the forms, management and technologies used in the development and operation of digital businesses.

The module aims to enable students to:

Identify digital business solutions to effectively manage digital businesses;

Develop a critical awareness of technical issues in digital business solutions;

Apply a range of tools and technologies to the development of digital business solutions;

Apply the various information management technologies to digital businesses.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Students will be critically aware of the development of digital business technologies.

(LO2) Students will be able to select and specify digital business solutions to meet both the specific need and to the international context.

(LO3) Students will be able to apply information management technologies to digital business.

(S1) Problem solving skills
Students will develop their problem solving skills through analysis of case studies provided in lectures.

(S2) Commercial awareness
Students will develop a critical awareness of commercial applications in relevant technologies.

(S3) Teamwork
Students will develop their teamworking skills through group-based work to analyse case studies in seminars and in preparation for the assessed presentation.

(S4) IT skills
Practical laboratory sessions to use relevant tools will enable students to develop their IT skills.

(S5) Lifelong learning skills
Lectures to present an overall technical roadmap of digital business technology development and applications to enable critical awareness of principles for future study and potentials for future career development will assist students with their development of lifelong learning skills.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

2 hour lecture x 12 weeks
1 hour seminar x 6 weeks
1 hour group study x 6 weeks
114 hours self-directed learning

Outside of the classroom, students will utilise self-directed learning hours to read reference materials, research cases provided in class and working on assignment preparation.

Syllabus
 

Architecture of digital business applications;

Digital communication technology;

Information management technologies;

Digital business management;

Data management for big data applications;

Digital business innovation;

Digital technology innovation.

Recommended Texts
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