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Information Management (VT IMIT)

Information Management (VT IMIT)

Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration
Project Description
  • Introduction (e.g., data, information and knowledge; tasks of information management)
  • Managing information (e.g., information economics; managing information demand and supply)
  • Managing information systems (e.g., databases, data warehousing, SQL)
  • Data mining (e.g., machine learning basics, recommender systems, text mining)
  • Managing information and communication technology (e.g., cloud computing, predicting ICT trends and developments)
Learning Outcomes The students...
Professional Competence
  • list typical information management tasks
  • describe the relationships between key information management concepts (e.g., data, information, and knowledge)
  • describe theoretical information management models (e.g., information sets model)
  • describe and explain different data mining methods
  • describe and explain tools to assess information and communication technology trends and developments
Methodological Competence
  • apply information management methods, tools, and systems to solve simple tasks
  • compare and contrast information management methods and tools
  • compare and contrast components and functions of information management systems (e.g., databases; data warehouses)
  • evaluate information management methods, tools, and systems
  • develop comprehensive plans to solve information management problems
Social Competence
  • actively listen to lecturers and fellow students
  • collaborate in order to solve complex exercises
  • justify their solution approaches and results
  • learn in study groups
Personal Competence
  • repeat the contents of lectures and exercises in a self-organized way
  • assess their own learning progress during lectures, exercises, and self-study (e.g., participation in discussions, solving exercises, presenting solutions)
  • identify their own strengths and weaknesses
  • tolerate different opinions and working styles (e.g., during classroom discussions, in online forums)
Requirements (formal)
Enrollment from WS23/24
These admission requirements:
  • To register for modules in the specialization, the modules Statistics, Business Mathematics, and English I must have been successfully completed.
  • In addition, the module Information Systems must have been successfully completed in order to register for the IMIT specialization.

Enrollment before WS23/24
Either the above admission requirements or:
  • To register for modules in the specialization, modules worth at least 45 ECTS credits from the first year of study and, in addition, the module English I must have been successfully completed.
  • Elective courses are not taken into account at all for these regulations.
Module number:
6110811
Semester:
SS 26
ECTS Credits:
6
Courses:
56 L / 42 h
Self-study:
138 h
Language:
English
Scheduled Semester:
4