The Information System professional will be expected to contribute to business growth and organizational efficiency by knowing enough about the business to decide how computers may help, and knowing enough about computers to decide what potential improvements in business processes can be achieved. Increasingly, organizations are realizing that they need IS professionals who possess business and management ability alongside their specialist IT knowledge. All managers must appreciate the organization’s mission, strategy and objectives, be aware of how the business works, and be able to manage effectively and influence decision makers in order to achieve the organization’s aims.

This means that we have to understand what organizations do and how they do it, as well as how people work. Organizations such as businesses and Government departments exist to achieve some purpose; this implies that, if we are to provide computers to increase the efficiency of an organization, we must have ways of understanding what they are trying to achieve, so that we can determine their information needs and provide appropriate systems.

The B.S in Information System integrates business and computer system fundamentals via a practice-based teaching approach. It introduces you to the methods, tools, theory, practice and underlying principles required to select, design and operate information systems for the benefit of an organization, to meet both the organization’s business needs and the usability and utility needs of the people in them.