Capstone Seminar in Digital Enterprise

This interactive, fast-paced course focuses on digital technologies as tools for achieving business goals. A digital enterprise is defined as an organization that uses digital technologies for operating its business processes; interacting with customers, employees, and partners; and/or making connected, smart products and services. Through readings and case studies, we learn how companies transform their organizations and their information technology (IT) platforms by taking advantage of such capabilities as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, robotic automation, and internet-of-things (IoT) connectivity. Then we roll up our sleeves and build a capstone project, architecting a digital solution for a realistic business scenario. The course brings together topics learned throughout the students' graduate coursework and creates a collaborative learning experience via lectures, readings, case studies, independent research, and intensive teamwork. The course addresses topics that cross the domains of software engineering and enterprise architecture. It focuses on IT practices in business organizations, blending managerial and technical perspectives in each topic. A special emphasis is placed on the transformative impact by current digital technologies on the enterprise-scale, complex software systems. Among the terms covered in the course are enterprise architecture, software application, business process, digital platforms and technologies, service management, and technology implementation framework.