- Understand IS components and types of information systems.
     - Understand IS for strategic organizational success and the need for making an IS business case.
     - Understand technological innovations to improve competitive advantage.
     - Understand the Internet and how it works, the basic Internet services, and the use of the World Wide Web.
     - Understand e-commerce and how it evolved and key e-commerce applications.
     - Understand e-commerce strategies and the difference between intranets and extranets.
     - Understand consumer-focused and business-focused e-commerce.
     - Understand characteristics of operational, managerial, and executive information systems.
     - Understand characteristics of transaction processing systems, management information systems, and executive information systems.
     - Understand characteristics of information systems that span organizational boundaries.

                                                       -  Understand how information technology supports business activities.
                                                      -  Understand enterprise systems, how they evolved and how to implement enterprise systems.
                                                      -  Understand software applications that are internally or externally focused.
                                                      -  Understand the system development life cycle (SDLC) and alternative approaches to system development.
                                                      -  Understand in-house system development and external acquisition, outsourcing, and end-user development.