Informatics planning and management

Basic course content areas include the following:
definition and review of IT governance through time:
definition and time review of strategic IS/IT planning, enterprise architecture, standards, methodologies and frameworks,
strategic IS/IT planning:
business strategy, strategic elements, analysis of the existing situation, technological vision, information technology plan, projects priorities, operation plan,
strategic IS/IT planning methodologies:
review of strategic IS/IT planning methodologies, EMRIS (Unified information systems development methodology),
enterprise architectures:
architecture layers - business, application and technology, business –IT alignment, service-oriented architecture (SOA), conceptual architecture model (ISO 1471),
architecture methods and frameworks:
Zachman, Togaf, Archimate,
business and IT management instruments:
EFQM, BSC, ISO standards (9000, 17799, 27000),
organizing the IT function:
organizing the IT function in an enterprise, different organizational charts for IT function.
IT processes:
plan and organize, implementation, support and control.
Evaluation of IT success and levels of maturity (CMMI)
Frameworks and best practices for IT governance:
COBIT, ITIL, security management, business continuity.

Strategic Planning, George A. Steiner, Free Press, 2008
Executive's Guide to IT Governance: Improving Systems Processes with Service Management, COBIT, and ITIL, Wiley, 2013
IT Governance: Policies &, Procedures, Michael Wallace, Larry Webber, Wolters Kluwer Law &, Business, 2013

The aim of the course is to present students key concepts, methods and instruments for IT governance in enterprises. Content areas include strategic IS/IT planning, enterprise architectures and other mechanisms for holistic IT governance.

Knowledge and understanding:
Knowledge of approaches, methods, architectures and IT governance instruments.
Understanding of strategic IS/IT planning and selected methods of IT governance.
Application:
Use of IT governance mechanisms at daily work of informatics professionals.
Reflection:
Understanding the consistency between theory of IT governance and its practical use based on concrete examples of applications in enterprises and best practices.
Transferable skills - not tied to just one course:
IT governance methods interconnect various informatics related aspects, enable holistic IT governance and are therefore useful in the context of all areas of informatics as a part of an enterprise.

Lectures, laboratory exercises and seminars. Laboratory exercises and seminars are organised as teamwork.

Continuing (homework, midterm exams, project work).

grading: 5 (fail), 6-10 (pass) (according to the Statute of UL)

HOVELJA, Tomaž, VASILECAS, Olegas, VAVPOTIČ, Damjan. Exploring the influences of the use of elements comprising information system development methodologies on strategic business goals. Technological and economic development of economy, ISSN 2029-4913. [Print ed.], 2015, vol. 21, no. 6, str. 885-898, ilustr. [COBISS-SI-ID 1536512963]
HOVELJA, Tomaž, VASILECAS, Olegas, RUPNIK, Rok . A novel approach for the evaluation of investments in preconfigured software products for enterprises that organisationally differ from enterprises in USA and Germany, Ciência e Técnica Vitivinícola Journal (ISSN: 0254-0223), v tisku
HOVELJA, Tomaž, ROŽANEC, Alenka, RUPNIK, Rok. Measuring the success of the strategic information systems planning in enterprises in Slovenia. Management, ISSN 1331-0194, 2010, vol. 15, no. 2, str. 25-46, ilustr. [COBISS-SI-ID 8352340]
Metodologija strateškega planiranje
KRISPER, Marjan (avtor, urednik), RUPNIK, Rok, ROŽANEC, Alenka, BAJEC, Marko, OSOJNIK, Rok, TOMAŽIČ, Roman, SILIČ, Marin (urednik). Enotna metodologija razvoja informacijskih sistemov. [Zv. 2], Strateško planiranje. 2. izd. Ljubljana: Vlada Republike Slovenije, Center Vlade RS za informatiko, 2003. XV, 446 str., ilustr. ISBN 961-6389-08-4. [COBISS-SI-ID 128167168]
Glavni avtor strateških planov informatike za vrsto večjih slovenskih podjetij: SŽ, Elektro Celja, Elektro Ljubljana, ELES, Plinovodi, Dravske elektrarne Maribor.