The objective of the course is to provide students with a brief but in-depth look at how business firms use information technologies and systems to achieve corporate objectives. It is a common belief that all business school students-regardless of their majors-require some basic understanding and knowledge of how to use information technologies and systems on their jobs. People all agree that information systems are one of the major tools available to business managers for achieving corporate goals. The course will examine how information technology (IT) enables organizations to conduct business in radically different and more effective ways and discuss today’s challenges from the point of the view of the managers who are grappling with them. It recounts stories of success and failure, focusing on the issues faced and the decisions made by executives in companies around the world. This course is based on the fundamental premise that the major role of information technology is to provide organizations with strategic advantage by facilitating problem solving, increasing productivity and quality, improving customer service, and enabling business process reengineering. By taking a practical, managerial-oriented approach (e.g., case studies), this course discusses how IT can be used by information system department, by end users and vendor as well. Managing information resources, new technologies, and communications network is becoming a critical success factor in the operations of many companies and will be addressed in the course too.