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  • ADDITIONAL LEARNING MATERIALS
  • MBI800 · ACADEMIC YEAR 2026
  • Strategic Information Systems Planning
  • Dr. Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe
  • Student Edition · For enrolled students only

Strategic Information Systems Planning

11 chapters · 61 pages · consolidated answer key. Typeset like a real book — worked examples, practice questions, key-concept tables and a linked table of contents. Works offline, prints beautifully on A4, and screen readers are fully supported.

  • Systems Thinking & the Iceberg Model
  • SISP Foundations & the Six Process Dimensions
  • Strategic IT Planning, Business Case & the SDLC
  • Business Model & Idea Canvases
  • Risk Management Standards
  • Global SISP Case Studies
  • Five Stories That Changed Everything
  • Immersive Realities — AR/VR
  • Systems Security · Platform Strategy
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  • MBI802 · ACADEMIC YEAR 2026
  • Database Management Systems

Database Management Systems

8 chapters · 56 pages · glossary + consolidated answer key. Typeset like a real book — worked examples, practice questions, key-concept tables and a linked table of contents. Works offline, prints beautifully on A4, and screen readers are fully supported.

  • Introduction to DBMS
  • SQL Programming Fundamentals
  • Advanced SQL Queries
  • ER Diagrams — Foundations & Advanced
  • ER → Relational Mapping
  • Database Normalization
  • Consolidation & Exam Preparation
  • Glossary of Key Terms

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MBI800 · Lesson Introduction and systems thinking The whole of Lesson 1: what strategic planning actually decides, systems against collections, a sales loop you can run for twelve months to watch the obvious fix rebound, and the Iceberg Model taken down through a real outage. Ends with a knowledge check. Read the lesson → MBI800 · Lesson The Business Model Canvas How a business model works, laid out on one page in nine blocks. Then a 90-minute group activity: six people, one IT business idea, a canvas filled in digitally and presented as a short slide deck. Read the lesson → MBI800 · Lesson Threats to opportunities to strategy How a business capitalises on its threats. Netflix, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, NZ Post and Google each turned a threat into a strategy, Kodak and Fujifilm took the same threat two ways, then you flip six threats yourself. Read the lesson → MBI800 · Lesson Five stories that changed everything Airbnb, Netflix, Xero, Canva and Alibaba — how each started from one frustration and built a platform that rewired its industry. IS architecture, growth figures and discussion questions for each. Read the lesson → MBI800 · Lesson Platform strategy Why Uber owns no cars and the App Store writes no apps. Network effects, the chicken-and-egg problem, governance and boundary resources, Amazon against GE Predix — then a group research task and a knowledge check. Read the lesson → MBI800 · Lesson Systems security What can go wrong, what it would cost, and how to defend and recover. Calculate real risk exposure, profile the attackers, tell malware apart, run a backup simulator and choose a disaster-recovery plan. Read the lesson →