MSCI 743Strategic Use of Information Networks to Enhance Technological Infrastructures

Course objectives are to acquaint participants with recent influential research and leading edge practice concerning management of technological change, and to relate such change to strategic deployment of information technology to the creation of enhanced technological infrastructures for firms. Technological infrastructure is defined as: an arrangement of elements which supports a long-term program of technological change; a system which constrains and facilitates the formulation and implementation of technology strategy. We will assess forms of strategic advantage which may derive from innovative deployment of information networks, both public (e.g. the internet) and private networks. Priority may be given to Management Sciences students.