Information Systems Specific Knowledge and Skills

From IS Curriculum

Information Systems specific knowledge and skills are divided into the following four main categories and a large number of subcategories, as follows:

• Identifying and designing opportunities for IT-enabled organizational improvement
  • Ensuring alignment between IT strategy and organizational strategy
  • Improving organizational processes with information technology solutions
  • Identifying and exploiting opportunities created by emerging technology innovations
  • Understanding and documenting information requirements
  • Improving various stakeholders' experience in interacting with the organization
• Analyzing trade-offs
  • Designing and comparing high-level solution and sourcing options
  • Capital budgeting for IT-intensive projects; making a financial justification for choosing between alternatives
• Designing and implementing information systems solutions
  • Designing enterprise architectures
  • Identifying, evaluating, and procuring solution and sourcing options
  • Ensuring high-quality user experience
  • Securing data and systems
  • Designing and implementing applications, application architectures, and integrated systems
  • Managing and exploiting organizational data and information; designing data and information models
  • Managing information systems development/procurement resources
  • Managing information systems projects
• Managing ongoing information technology operations
  • Managing the use of enterprise technology resources
  • Managing application performance and scalability
  • Maintaining existing information systems
  • Managing relationships with technology service providers
  • Securing data and systems infrastructure
  • Ensuring business continuance