Course co-ordinator(s): Dr Jessica Chen-Burger (Edinburgh), Cristina Turcanu (Dubai).
Aims:
- To provide an overview of advanced topics in Digital and Knowledge Economy, including current developments and future trends in developed economies resulting from deploying new technologies and utilising emerging knowledge.
- To discuss e-Business, as a new breed of modern business model that leverages technical advancements to create economic growth.
- To provide a high level description of business and technological issues related to Digital and Knowledge Economy.
- To introduce technologies and methodologies so as to provide a deep understanding of the Digital and Knowledge Economy, including business, organisational, knowledge and technology based issues.
- To impart rigorous technical modelling and analytical methodologies for working with complex problems in this area.
- To facilitate the dialogue between business and computing personnel, and translate business requirements to computing ones and vice versa.
- To impart deep understanding of the motivation and rationale behind the conversations between business and IT, as well as other relevant technologies and future trends – so that students can recommend them and/or participate in the decision making process for future planning.
Detailed Information
Course Description: Link to Official Course Descriptor.
Pre-requisites: Fundamentals of logic, grasp of computational thinking..
Location: Dubai, Edinburgh.
Semester: 2.
Syllabus:
- Introduction to Digital and Knowledge Economy
- Introduction to Digital and Knowledge Economy
- Its relevance to e-Business
- Topics in Digital Economy
- An overview of technologies and tools for e-Business
- What is a business model? What are the different types of business models?
- What are the relationships between business models and innovative/disruptive technologies?
- Current development and future trends in Digital and Knowledge Economy
- Relevant technology offerings, e.g. Bitcoin, IBM’s cloud computing platform
- Knowledge based technologies in Knowledge Economy
- introduction to knowledge management, knowledge modelling technologies, including ontologies
- Introduction to logic, Intelligent Systems and related technologies, including semantic web based technologies
- Case studies of Intelligent Systems and Future trends.
- Supply Chain Management and its relation to Digital Economy
- What is SCM? What are the standard practices in SCM, e.g. SCOR?
- Introduction to process modelling, business operations and SCM.
- What is global SCM? Case studies, e.g. IKEA’s global SCM; Current and future trends
- Business Intelligence: Fundamentals issues and technologies
SCQF Level: 10.
Credits: 15.