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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.