ICT Sourcing - ICT4HM106 - Opinto-opas

ICT Sourcing, 5 cr - ICT4HM106

Upcoming implementations

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Current implementations

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Past implementations

ICT Sourcing ICT4HM106-3006 19.08.2024-13.12.2024 5 op (MAICTE, ...) +-
Teaching methods and instruction

Online lessons.
Virtual learning.
RPL.

Responsible person

Kari Hiekkanen

Learning material and recommended literature

The needed material and links to those are available in Moodle.

Working life connections

There might be presenters from real-life.

Campus

Pasila Campus

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

No exams. Failed courses can be passed by resubmitting the assignments.

Teaching language

English

Internationality

All the material and the lessons are in English.

Timing

19.08.2024 - 13.12.2024

Learning assignments

Pre-assignment + Practical assignments to deepen ICT procurement skills.

Enrollment

03.06.2024 - 16.08.2024

Content scheduling

Online lessons:
4.9.2024 17:40 - 20:30
18.9.2024 17:40 - 20:30
9.10. 2024 17:40 - 20:30
Participation voluntary, activity points shared.
Groups
- MAICTE
- MAICTF
- EVENING
- BLENDED
- EXCH
- ONLINE
Alternative learning methods

Active participation on lessons.
Virtual learning by studying yourself.
Learning by doing the assignments.
RPL.

Teachers

Lauri Tapola

Seats

31 - 60

Further information

The assignments are graded.
The grading of the course is based on the quality of the assignments.

Degree Programme

BUTEM Degree Programme in Business Technologies, LITEM Liiketoiminnan teknologiat -koulutus

R&D proportion

0.00 cr

Virtual proportion

5.00 cr

Evaluation scale

H-5

The course is focused on sourcing ICT-services holding mostly a business perspective. Upon successful completion of the course, the student
• gets a good command of the principles of managing ICT-sourcing as part of Sourcing-function
and the relatedness to Company strategy
• learns ways to organize ICT-sourcing and frameworks of managing vendor and solution
selection
• learns practices to fulfill ICT-outsourcing and distribution of services
• learns the practices of Service integration and management (SIAM)

• Introduction to sourcing and linkages to other disciplines in the field of IT
• Guidelines framing sourcing strategies, forms of partnering and the acquiring of resources
• Building service integration and management, and maintaining multivendor relationships
• Sourcing as an operation – case selection consultancy in large IT-investments
• Approaches and concepts in distributing IT work – outsourcing, crowdsourcing. ecosystems
• Case studies by student teams and professionals

Depending on the implementation, learning takes place in contact lessons, independent studies, teamwork and online-studies and the assessment of one’s own learning.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
If you have acquired the required competence in previous work tasks, recreational activities or on another course, you can show that competence via a demonstration. The demonstration must be agreed with the course teacher. More information and instructions for recognising and validating prior learning (RPL) are available at https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/recognition-learning Look at "Instructions to students (master)"

Beulen, E., Ribbers, P., Roos, J. 2011. Managing IT outsourcing .Routledge, 2nd ed. (On our library) -- A good overview on IT-outsourcing: Impact on business model, OS as phenomenon, Contracts, Offhsoring, Business Process OS, Partnership risk mgmt., Governance of OS.

Iloranta, Pajunen, Muhonen. 2015, Hankintojen johtaminen: Ostamisesta toimittajamarkkinoiden hallintaan -- The book gives a good overview on managing the sourcing function. The learnings here are also apt in ICT-sourcing.

Kern, T., Willcocks, L. 2002. Netsourcing: Renting Business Applications and Services Over a Network [0-13-092355-9]. On our library? -- The book covers SaaS-type of an OS, which was firstly called as ASP (Applicaton Service Providing). Note that the first three chapters offer a good overview on different options of structuring and managing the outsourcing in general, not jus SaaS.

Rivard, S. Aubert, B. 2007. Information Technology Outsourcing – an e-book on our library

Ed. Martin, G., Reddington, M., Alexander, H. 2008. Technology, Outsourcing and Transforming HR. Multiple articles by Elsevier publishing. (on our library) -- Mostly the human resource viewpoint in outsourcing covered here.

Other material: video presentations, articles, visitor lectures and student presentations, too

When the implementation type of the course is contact, online or blended it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25%, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50%, the course is failed.

Successful accomplishment of the course necessitates basic knowledge of the ITIL framework and the principles of enterprise architecture.

Passed courses are assessed on a scale of 1 to 5 based on individual study project by free choice (related to job), individual assignments, exam and activity on lessons

Grade 1: The student partially understands development methods and principles but does not truly understand the role of IT in business development. Project work has been limited.

Grade 3: In addition to skills and competences mentioned for grade 1, a student has basic competence in planning and managing activities belonging to sourcing in a particular business area. In addition, the student understands the business value of developing sourcing capabilities, which is proven by assignments done on the course.

Grade 5: In addition to the skills and competences mentioned for grades 1 and 3, a student thoroughly understands the principles and success factors of sourcing and is able to adopt them in practice. The student demonstrates these competences by successfully doing and finishing assignments. The student is able to reflect the development challenges and opportunities of sourcing in practice.

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