The digital transformation is changing society and is evident all around us. The growing digitisation is setting new standards every day and bringing new challenges to economies, businesses and people. Mobile is now a commodity and has disrupted millions of companies over past decade. People have become used to the speed and simplicity of consumer applications, and so business users expect the same simplicity from our business software. 
This unit investigates and analyses the impact and issues of adoption of mobile first strategy by organisations. It will focus on the underlying concepts and standards of mobile application development using design thinking principals. Students will critically review emerging issues related to mobile computing and mobile application development, and how agile approach can support current and future business operations. Students will investigate and examine mobile computing from four perspectives: mobile technology, application development, user experience, and implementation & governance.

Unit details

Location:
City Flinders
VU Sydney
Study level:
Postgraduate
Credit points:
12
Unit code:
BCO7001

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. Debate, analyse and assess business information requirements related to mobile application development using various information gathering techniques;  
  2. Judge methods and approaches to the design, development and implementation of mobile computing applications to support various business scenarios through design thinking;  
  3. Evaluate and integrate elements of design to provide contextually relevant rich interaction experiences;  
  4. Experiment on programming and prototyping applications for mobile devices;  
  5. Critically review and interpret the theoretical knowledge on current and future thinking on the integration of organisational and mobile applications;  
  6. Interpret and critique the future trends of mobile computing and associated technologies and propose how the role of culture, values and dispositions affect the achievement of goals; and  
  7. Persuasively advocate professional recommendations in both written and oral form to a variety of specialist and non-specialist audiences.  

Assessment

Assessment type Description Grade
Test Theory knowledge test based on the lecture content 20%
Report Research report on issues relating to Mobile business solution implementation 30%
Project Development of mobile/ WEB application (Group) 50%

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