MSc Information Systems: Organisations and Management Manchester Business School

From the smallest company to national governments, ICT is shaping the way organisations operate. As a manager or marketing professional you can help improve communications with employees and customers by harnessing the power of modern technology. Boost your career prospects by focusing on information systems for
businesses or the public sector with one of our three expert pathways.

Organisations and Management
In the current financial climate, organisations are facing major challenges and having to adapt their business practices to survive. The internet, blogging, Web 2.0 and online auctions are changing the ways goods and services are sold, and how organisations manage their daily work. This pathway gives you the critical knowledge to help companies face these new challenges. You look at organisational practice and how the potential application of information systems (IS) can help businesses improve their practices. You gain a much sought-after insight into how IS are related to organisational structures and management practices, and the effectiveness of both. As well as providing a thorough understanding of IS and its use in business and organisational practice, this pathway also focuses on managing the relationship between people, organisations and technology in contemporary society. You gain transferable employment-related skills so that you can compete in today’s business climate.

Recent recruiters include:

Accenture, AMFCO, AstraZeneca, Barclays Bank, Cisco Systems,

Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Lenovo, Merrill Lynch

Course structure

(all taught course units are 15 credits)

The first eight months contain three compulsory course units and five optional course units, followed by the dissertation.

You are required to study the following core units:

- Industrial Leadership Forum

- Research Methods and Practice

Plus the following core unit according to your pathway:

Business Information Technology

- Human Computer Interaction and Web User Interfaces e-Business Technology

- e-Business Organisations and Management

- IS Strategy and Enterprise Systems

Plus five optional course units from a range of subjects (subject to timetabling and prior experience). At least three of them have to be chosen from the core electives of the course.

Core electives of the programme:

- Application and Evaluation of IS

- Business Improvement Tools, Techniques and Systems

- Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support

- Digital Technologies, Development and Emerging Markets

- Digital Technologies for Marketing

- Distributed Systems and Internet Technology

- e-Government

- Globalisation and the Information Society

- ICTs and Work in the New Economy

- Information and Knowledge Management

- Team Working Technology

Other electives:

- Commercial Management

- Managing Business IT Projects

- Managing Major Programmes and Projects

- Managing Projects

- Mathematical Programming and Optimisation

- Relationship Marketing

- Risk, Performance and Decision Analysis

- Strategic Supply Chain Management

Other course units offered by MBS or other schools may also be possible (subject to timetabling, prior experience, school policies, and agreement with the course leaders and course directors concerned).

Note: all optional units are subject to demand.

Summer research period

Dissertation/Project (60 credits)

You must complete a satisfactory dissertation to be awarded your MSc, which should also be related to your chosen pathway. This piece of work, undertaken in your third term and over the summer, gives you the opportunity to apply the techniques and theories you have learned during the taught modules. Dissertation topics reflect the expertise of your lecturers and you may be asked to choose from a list of options.

Supervision often starts with small groups of students studying similar topics meeting with their supervisors, who then guide students in deciding on the focus for their individual dissertations. The dissertation itself normally consists of a literature review followed by a piece of empirical work, involving either qualitative or quantitative research. Some feature industrial placements.

Recent dissertations include:

• Change management methods of a multinational consultancy company (based on a company placement)

• Business cases for customer relationship management (based on a company placement with a pharmaceutical multinational)

• The role of consultancy companies in selling technology solutions

• Innovation in the public sector (with government sector partners).

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Description:	From the smallest company to national governments, ICT is shaping the way organisations operate. As a manager or marketing professional you can help improve communications with employees and customers by harnessing the power of modern technology. Boost your career prospects by focusing on information systems for businesses or the public sector with one of our three expert pathways. Organisations and Management In the current financial climate, organisations are facing major challenges and having to adapt their business practices to survive. The internet, blogging, Web 2.0 and online auctions are changing the ways goods and services are sold, and how organisations manage their daily work. This pathway gives you the critical knowledge to help companies face these new challenges. You look at organisational practice and how the potential application of information systems (IS) can help businesses improve their practices. You gain a much sought-after insight into how IS are related to organisational structures and management practices, and the effectiveness of both. As well as providing a thorough understanding of IS and its use in business and organisational practice, this pathway also focuses on managing the relationship between people, organisations and technology in contemporary society. You gain transferable employment-related skills so that you can compete in today’s business climate. Recent recruiters include: Accenture, AMFCO, AstraZeneca, Barclays Bank, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Lenovo, Merrill Lynch Course structure (all taught course units are 15 credits) The first eight months contain three compulsory course units and five optional course units, followed by the dissertation. You are required to study the following core units: - Industrial Leadership Forum - Research Methods and Practice Plus the following core unit according to your pathway: Business Information Technology - Human Computer Interaction and Web User Interfaces e-Business Technology - e-Business Organisations and Management - IS Strategy and Enterprise Systems Plus five optional course units from a range of subjects (subject to timetabling and prior experience). At least three of them have to be chosen from the core electives of the course. Core electives of the programme: - Application and Evaluation of IS - Business Improvement Tools, Techniques and Systems - Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support - Digital Technologies, Development and Emerging Markets - Digital Technologies for Marketing - Distributed Systems and Internet Technology - e-Government - Globalisation and the Information Society - ICTs and Work in the New Economy - Information and Knowledge Management - Team Working Technology Other electives: - Commercial Management - Managing Business IT Projects - Managing Major Programmes and Projects - Managing Projects - Mathematical Programming and Optimisation - Relationship Marketing - Risk, Performance and Decision Analysis - Strategic Supply Chain Management Other course units offered by MBS or other schools may also be possible (subject to timetabling, prior experience, school policies, and agreement with the course leaders and course directors concerned). Note: all optional units are subject to demand. Summer research period Dissertation/Project (60 credits) You must complete a satisfactory dissertation to be awarded your MSc, which should also be related to your chosen pathway. This piece of work, undertaken in your third term and over the summer, gives you the opportunity to apply the techniques and theories you have learned during the taught modules. Dissertation topics reflect the expertise of your lecturers and you may be asked to choose from a list of options. Supervision often starts with small groups of students studying similar topics meeting with their supervisors, who then guide students in deciding on the focus for their individual dissertations. The dissertation itself normally consists of a literature review followed by a piece of empirical work, involving either qualitative or quantitative research. Some feature industrial placements. Recent dissertations include: • Change management methods of a multinational consultancy company (based on a company placement) • Business cases for customer relationship management (based on a company placement with a pharmaceutical multinational) • The role of consultancy companies in selling technology solutions • Innovation in the public sector (with government sector partners).
Teaching mode:	Full Time
Language:	English
Tuition fees:	Home/EU £9,400 Overseas £14,900
Begin:	17 September 2012
Length:	1 Year
Application deadline:	Rolling admission - please apply as early as possible.
Application procedure:	Entry Requirements First or upper second class honours (2:1) degree or the overseas equivalentin any discipline for Organisations and Management; and for Business IT and e-Business Technology, in a science, engineering or technology subject.
Entry Requirements:	no academic background in business or economics required
URL:	http://www.mbs.ac.uk/programmes/masters/courses/info-sys-organisations-manage/

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