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COIT13231 - Enterprise ICT Governance, Risk and Compliance

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit introduces you to enterprise analysis and modelling from the perspective of governance, risk and compliance to ensure the enterprise structure, organisation and processes are aligned with the relevant industry standards and regulations. You will be exposed to major governance, risk and compliance standards, and use modern tools to analyse the regulatory status of an enterprise.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: COIS12073 and COIT12203

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026

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Online
Sydney

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Practical Assessment 35%
2. Written Assessment 45%
3. Presentation 20%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 81.82% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 40.74% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Unit Coordinator self-reflection
Feedback
Integrating enterprise modelling concepts and tools into the unit would greatly enhance students' understanding of real-world scenario.
Recommendation
Identify and incorporate enterprise modelling concepts and tools that are relevant to the unit.
Action Taken
This has been implemented. To enhance students' understanding of real-world scenarios, enterprise modelling concepts have been integrated into the unit. The ArchiMate modelling tool has been introduced as part of this improvement.
Source: Unit Coordinator self-reflection
Feedback
The relevance of cybersecurity to enterprise analysis is not sufficiently addressed.
Recommendation
Identify the critical role of cybersecurity in enterprise analysis and incorporate this into the unit content, emphasising its importance for effective risk management and the protection of sensitive information.
Action Taken
This has been implemented. The unit content has been updated to highlight the critical role of cybersecurity in enterprise analysis. New materials and examples have been added to emphasise its importance in managing risks and protecting sensitive information.
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluations
Feedback
The clear and knowledgeable explanation of enterprise analysis and modelling techniques (e.g., business process modelling, stakeholder analysis, and capability mapping) was helpful to students in understanding complex concepts and their practical application.
Recommendation
Incorporate more industry-based examples or case studies to illustrate how enterprise modelling techniques are applied in real business contexts. This will help students better understand their practical value.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluations
Feedback
The unit content and teaching approach challenged me to think critically and ask deeper questions about enterprise analysis and modelling.
Recommendation
Use real-world business scenarios each week to get students thinking. Ask open-ended questions to guide their exploration and problem-solving. Let them create models or analyse situations using standard tools, then reflect on their choices. Encourage students to share and discuss their work with classmates.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Identify critical situations and analyse the business needs of an organisation to develop appropriate computing governance strategies to address regulatory risks and compliance situations
  2. Compare and contrast general and conflicting organisation-specific technical issues in enterprise governance and organisational change
  3. Evaluate alternative approaches to implement effective governance, risk and compliance assessment practices in the context of an organisation
  4. Develop innovative approaches for the implementation of enterprise governance based on contemporary practices
  5. Apply enterprise analysis skills to identify and analyse the root causes of a given enterprise governance problem and develop recommendations
  6. Work collaboratively and communicate effectively to report on enterprise governance, analyse (regulatory) risks, and compliance issues.

Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is adopted by organisations, governments and individuals in many countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.

ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html

This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA 9 (the SFIA code is included):

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and data ethics (AIDE)
  • Audit (AUDT)
  • Business intelligence (BINT)
  • Business modelling (BSMO)
  • Business process improvement (BPRE)
  • Business situation analysis (BUSA)
  • Data science (DATS)
  • Risk management (BURM)

AIDE is mainly treated in Week 11, when Ethical and regulatory frameworks for AI systems will be discussed.

AUDT is a key component of the compliance lifecycle, and auditing and auditing techniques are presented in week 7.

BINT is essentially covered by all component of the unit. 

BSMO and BPRE are explicitly covered by the topics of the weeks on Business Process Modelling and Process Mining. 

BUSA the student learns how to address business situation analysis from the lens of enterprise ICT governance. 

DATS process mining will examine how to use clean and manipulate (process) data based on specialised programs and algorithms to extract the structure of a process.  Similarly, typical auditing is based on data sampling techniques. Compliance-by-design is based on processing (enterprise) data and rule-based approaches (using the data as input).  

BURM one week of the unit is dedicated to Risk topics. 

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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6 - Information Technology Competence • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • • • •
8 - Ethical practice • • •
9 - Social Innovation •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
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