The purchase of the required text book is the responsibility of the student. Students will need to purchase the specified text book from one of our preferred suppliers Uni Books http://www.unibooks.com.au
Or Booktopia http://www.booktopia.com.au/ and have a direct link where we have arranged discounts for students http://www.booktopia.com.au/cXBTA1-p1.html
Note: The book for IT Service Management should be purchased through ITSMF directly as it is no longer supplied through Booktopia. Visit www.itsmf.org.au and log in as a guest to purchase. Stock is currently available and delivery is within 7-10 days.
Textbooks for the Information Security subject can be purchased from ISACA bookstore, but you can try other sources. https://www.isaca.org/bookstore/Pages/default.aspx
There are also alternative sources such as ACS Bookstore which is located on the ACSLearn learning portal http://education.acs.org.au/ directly through Amazon http://www.amazon.com/ or through any reputable academic bookshop.
Students should make sure they purchase their required text book/s at least four weeks prior to the commencement of the study period. It is essential that the text book is purchased as it forms part of the subject reading requirements and will also be discussed throughout the duration of the 13 week study period.
The decision not to provide text books allows us to keep the cost of the program at the low fee of $750 per subject for ACS Members.
Required Textbooks:
Risk Management: Professionalism and Compliance-
No textbook is required for BLE
New Technology Alignment-
No textbook is required for the NTA
Business, Strategy and IT-
The New CIO Leader by Marianne Broadbent and Ellen S Kitzis, Harvard Business School Press, 2005.
ISBN 1591395771 or 9781591395775
What Management Is by Joan Magretta Paperback edition, Profile Books, 2003.-
ISBN 1861976453 or 9781861976451
Project Management-
Readings in Information Technology Project Management by Gary L Richardson and Charles W Butler, Thomson Course Technology, 2006.
ISBN 0-619-21750-2.
Adaptive Business Intelligence-
Adaptive Business Intelligence by Zbigniew Michalewicz, Martin Schmidt, Matthew Michalewicz, & Constantin Chiriac, Thomson Course Technology, 2006.
ISBN 3540329285.
Note: This textbook is not available from Booktopia. Suggest you contact Unibooks, Thomson or any reputable bookshop.
IT Service Management-
The Official Introduction to the ITIL Service Lifecycle, Office of Government Commerce (OGC), UK.
ISBN 978-0-11-331061-6.
Note: Visit www.itsmf.org.au and log in as a guest to purchase this book. Stock is currently available and delivery is within 7-10 days.
Enterprise Architecture-
Enterprise Architecture as a Strategy, Jeanne W Ross, Peter Weill and David C Robertson, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. ISBN 9781591398394
Organisational Change Management-
Managing Organisational Change, Graetz, F. Rimmer, M., Lawrence, A., and Smith, A., 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2002
ISBN 978-0470807040
* This text can be obtained via on-line bookshops or many University bookshops. Make sure you purchase the Australian /Edition.
Green ICT Strategies-
There is no set text for this course. References are online.
Business, Process Improvement (using Lean Six Sigma)
Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO, Bentley and Davis, CRC Press, 2010.
ISBN 9781439803790
Information Security-
1. Certified Information Security Manager (CISM Review Manual), ISACA International, ISBN 9781604200379
2. Business Model for Information Security, ISACA International. ISBN 9781604201543
Textbooks for the Information Security subject can be purchased from ISACA bookstore:
https://www.isaca.org/bookstore/Pages/default.aspx
