MGT 6503 - Managing Information Resources (1.5 credit hours) The course introduces several emerging trends, business models, opportunities, transformations, and challenges faced by modern companies and industry sectors due to the advances, interconnectedness, and ubiquity of information technology (IT). Topics include digital disruption and transformation, platform economics, crowdsourcing of innovation, IT sustainability, responsible computing, cybersecurity, and privacy. Students also get exposure to several hands-on methods and tools related to data analytics and visualization.
Electives
MGT 6056 - Electronic Commerce (3 credit hours) Searching for customers and suppliers. Serving customers electronically. Handling electronic transactions. Business model innovations in e-commerce. Less focused on the IT side, more on the business side.
MGT 6057 - Business Process Analysis and Design (3 credit hours) Explore software infrastructure of the firm. How does that infrastructure support the business' processes? Includes an ERP simulation game. Effective management of technology to gain competitive advantage. Involves use of SAP.
MGT 6058 - IT Practicum (3 credit hours) Learn to identify the key issues in a technology management problem. Understand the role of the IT organization within a corporate setting. Apply what you have learned in MIS and other core classes to contemporary information technology management projects. Develop alternative solutions for your project and understand the tradeoffs involved in each solution.
MGT 6059 - Emerging Technologies (3 credit hours) Emerging technologies can change the business environment rapidly and dramatically. This course helps participants identify the implications of emerging technologies via a “timeless” and a “timely” component. The “timeless” component is a step-by-step, structured approach for analyzing an emerging technology, including how to seize the opportunities and mitigate the threats that it creates. The “timely” component is a survey of emerging technologies. To illustrate the approach, multiple emerging technologies, including several related to sustainability, are explored.
MGT 6203 - Data Analytics in Business (3 credit hours) This course teaches the scientific process of transforming data into insights for making better business decisions. It covers the methodologies, algorithms, issues, and challenges related to analyzing business data. It will illustrate the processes of big data analytics by allowing students to apply business analytics algorithms and methodologies to real-world business datasets from finance, marketing, and operations.
MGT 6450 - Project Management (3 credit hours) Learn project management concepts and understand tools of project selection, planning and tracking. Understand special considerations for managing projects with outsourcing/offshoring settings. Investigate new technologies related to project management. Understand how to use Microsoft Project and other tools to manage projects.
MGT 8803 - Business Analytics Practicum (3 credit hours) This course pairs groups of students with a company for a semester-long project. Student teams works with their participating company by framing a business issue as an analytics problem, analyzing data provided by the company, and generating applicable business insights and/or developing capabilities.
Information Systems (Core Course) Tools and techniques to manage the information technology infrastructure that supports a global organization.
Technology Forecasting and Analysis (MoT) Examines key emerging technologies in B2B environments, their development patterns, and the associated impact on industries, industrial competitiveness, and society.
