ICT Sourcing - Study guide

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)

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

• 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

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.

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.

Online lessons.
Virtual learning.
RPL.

Kari Hiekkanen

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

There might be presenters from real-life.

Pasila Campus

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

English

All the material and the lessons are in English.

19.08.2024 - 13.12.2024

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

03.06.2024 - 16.08.2024

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.

MAICTE
MAICTF
EVENING
BLENDED
EXCH
ONLINE

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

Lauri Tapola

31 - 60

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

BUTEM Degree Programme in Business Technologies, LITEM Degree Programme in Business Technologies

0.00 cr

3.00 cr

H-5