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MSc/PgDip/PgCert
Information Systems Management(ISM)
Location
Southwark
Duration
1 year (full-time)
2 years (part-time)
Start date
September
Number of places
40 places (maximum)
Simple timetable information
Full-time: typically 2 full days per week
Part-time: typically 1 full day per week
How to apply
Direct to LSBU
LSBU code
Full-time: 1137
Part-time: 1138
Course Contact
Dr Jeffrey Chang
changjl@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 6925
Course Units
– Management for IS Professionals
– Web Technologies
– Business Process Modelling and Analysis
– Perspectives of Project Management
– Research Methods
– Strategic Management of Information Systems
– Enterprise Modelling for Decision Support
– E-commerce
– Dissertation
Course description
The course trains specialist and nonspecialist graduates in the technological, analytical and managerial skills required by a hybrid manager-technologist – a senior manager whose understanding of technology and technologists underpins a career in the management of information systems.
The MSc ISM will:
– Explore the strategic benefits of successfully implementing information technology
– Develop your practical competence in a range of current ISM systems
– Enhance your project management and capital budgeting skills to enable activity, programme and project costing, control and evaluation
– Give you an appreciation of the impact and management of change caused by the introduction of IT
– Develop your research skills
– Enable you to deliver a major piece of largely self-directed research, in the shape of the final project/dissertation.
Career opportunities
Career opportunities range from information systems services to business consultancy. Graduates have entered positions such as: BIT manager, Network server manager and Computer Adviser in various industrial sectors.
Recent guest lecturers
– Professor Denis Sherwood, Systems Thinking
– Professor Kim Warren, Strategy Dynamics
– Mike Southon, Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Course units in profile
Management for Information Systems Professionals: Introduces the management process, develops critical awareness of current management issues relevant to IS professionals. Perspectives of Project Management: Develops awareness of theoretical aspects of project management and software development. Web Technologies: Develops the skills required to handle, manage and critically assess the Internet.
Business Process Modelling: Uses Unified Modelling Language (UML) to model the business, its goals, resources and rules that govern their interaction. Enterprise Modelling for Decision Support: Analyse problems using the decision-modelling techniques needed for problem-solving in the context of strategic management decision making. Strategic Management of Information Systems: Provides the theoretical and prescriptive knowledge to address critical planning, organisational and control issues facing IS.
E-Commerce Systems: Explores the technical, business, legal and social issues in the implementation of e-commerce systems. Research Methods: Prepares you for your dissertation by giving you an understanding of the research process and developing your research skills. Dissertation: A major research and development resulting in the production of a 10,000 word dissertation. Projects can be industry-based or based internally within one of the faculty research centres.
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