Graduate Programmes
The School of Information Systems (SIS) is proud to launch its very first and unique Masters Programme. This programme offers the degree of Master of IT in Business (Financial Services), and it targets at training IT and operations professionals to assume managerial positions within the Technology & Operations functions in the Financial Services Industry (FSI).
The curriculum covers 3 courses in General Management, 4 courses on IT & Process Management, 4 courses on FSI Processes, Solutions & Technology, plus a cap-stone project. As an initial launch, the programme will be delivered part-time over a 2-year period.
For more information, visit Master of IT in Business (Financial Services) website.
Quotes from our BoA members:
 TENG Soon Lang Executive Vice President & Head - Group Quality & Process Innovation Division OCBC Bank |
"In an increasingly complex and dynamic financial industry, there is great demand for leaders who can effectively link technologies and business processes with business performance. I am pleased that we finally have a holistic and practical programme that is specially tailored to prepare talented operations and technology professionals to take advantage of these opportunities." |
 Steve INGRAM Vice President & Managing Director EDS Southeast Asia |
"The SIS professional masters programme fulfills a growing need in the market. As Singapore becomes more and more a hub for banking operations, we will need to develop strong capabilities to meet market demand. The SIS Masters fulfils that need and is the right combination of management theory and business practice." |
SIS is the first school in SMU to launch a PhD programme. PhD in Information Systems produces graduates with expertise at the intersection of IT and business for R&D units and applied academic institutions. Four students entered the PhD programme as the pioneer intake in August 2006. Six students will be entering the programme as the second intake in August 2007.
For more information, visit PhD in Information Systems website.
Also see the profile of our PhD Students.
Accomplishments of PhD student, Danny OH
IDA Adaptive Enterprise@SG project
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Danny OH Student, PhD in Information Systems School of Information Systems Singapore Management University |
Danny OH, PhD in Information Systems student, wrapped up the research work for the IDA Adaptive Enterprise @SG project under the supervision of Practice Professor Steven Miller at the end of February 2007. In this project, we saw how one type of economics-inspired method for grid computing resource allocation has performance and economic benefits to the base case of allocation that is not economics-inspired. However, the former method in the form of a bidding mechanism requires a high degree of user participation in the bidding process. People who play the markets for a profession or as a hobby might be able to appreciate the trading-like characteristics of Tycoon. Engineers and technical people who want an efficient way to execute their computer jobs might not relish this need to be a trader to get their work done in grid computing settings.
The project generated several publications and the project findings were presented at various conferences as listed below in chronological order.
1. Presentation by S. Miller and N. Hu on "Analyzing Demand Patterns, Business Models & Governance to facilitate the growth of Grid Services in Singapore" at the 2nd International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models, GECON 2005, Seoul, Korea, in conjunction with the 13th Global Grid Forum.
2. D. Oh, S. Miller and N. Hu, "Experimental & Empirical Perspectives on Grid Resource Allocation for the Singapore Market", In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models, Singapore, Singapore, May 16, 2006, pg 13-23.
3. D. Oh, S. Miller, "Economic Performance Analysis of the Tycoon Market-based Resource Allocation System for Grid Computing", In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on e-Business, Milwaukee, WI, USA, Dec 9, 2006.
4. D. Oh, S.F. Cheng, D. Ma and B. Ravi, "Designing an Experimental Gaming Platform for Trading Grid Resources", 2nd International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology , California , USA , May 13-15, 2007.
-The experience with this project led us to devise a new approach for studying grid marketplaces which is summarized in this working paper. While the effort to design this new simulation platform to study the behaviour of a grid commodity marketplace is outside the scope of the AE@SG project effort, we wanted to acknowledge how our AE@SG effort led to important new areas of investigation.
