“ As you may already have heard, SIS students are one of those rare breeds who can connect IT and Business. And the industry needs people like us: people able to communicate with business users – who understand what is lacking and can apply strategic or tactical technology solutions to relieve their pain points, and improve their productivity and efficiency. It's all about creating additional value for the organisation. The SIS core courses provide students with the essential skills to analyse business operations and identify areas for improvement. Subsequent courses are more in-depth and provide you with the technical and management perspectives to implement a technology to a business scenario. The syllabus is all encompassing, allowing one to be well- rounded. By the time you graduate, you are armed with the necessary skill sets and ready for the "real world". In fact, you would already know you are ready when you complete IS480. ” SEETOH Yong Chuen, BSc (IS Management) 2008 entry batch

“ Though the curriculum is technology focused, SIS emphasises the role of technology as an enabler to the business, rather than an end to itself. The value of this mindset when entering any industry as a fresh graduate cannot be overstated. But most significantly, SIS especially taught me how to learn. The combination of doing many projects that required the integration of IS capabilities and business understanding, and doing a lot of “learning-to-learn” with guidance from the SIS faculty and staff is what really helped me for my professional career. ” Shwetank SHEEL, Co-Founder and BI Principal, Neobytes Asia Pte Ltd
BSc (IS Management) 2003 entry batch

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IS304 – Process Modelling and Solutions Blueprinting

“ PMSB is all about coming up with feasible solutions for addressing business problems and to improve processes within an organisation. However, to choose the one solution that works best for an organisation is no easy feat.

My greatest take-away from PMSB can be described in two sentences:
It is not about building the best IT solution architecture in the world for the company.
It is all about building the IT solution architecture that works best for the company.”

— TAY Wen Bin, BSc (IS Management) 2010 entry batch

IS301 – Enterprise Integration

“ Enterprise Integration to me is the introduction of the concept of integration between applications within an organisation as well as between organisations. It provides us with an additional perspective on the information systems within the business industry, especially on the point of collaboration between resources. EI is creating the solution to enable the applications to communicate with each other to enable business collaboration. ”

— Alex CHNG Keng Cheng, BSc (IS Management) 2008 entry batch
2nd Major in Operations Management

IS305 – Enterprise Web Solutions

“ In EWS we explore how organisations strategically plan their implementation road map for their web portal architectures, whilst satisfying overall business needs, overcoming technical challenges, and taking scalability into consideration.”

— Ashley SHEN Jiawei, BSc (IS Management) 2009 entry batch
2nd Major in Advanced Business Technology without Track

IS303 – Architectural Analysis

“ It focuses on the iterative process of design and analysis through which business requirements and solution elements are transformed into implementable architectural descriptions. The course prepares students to participate effectively in all stages of a software-intensive IT system, from conception and development to deployments, and evolution from the non-functional requirements point of view. ”

— CHEN Qinghe, BSc (IS Management) 2009 entry batch
2nd Major in Advanced Business Technology without Track

IS306 – Interaction Design and Prototyping

“ Interaction Design and Prototyping are important concepts and processes that cannot be overlooked while building an application. It focuses on the human-computer interaction which is crucial in producing interfaces with high usability or user-friendliness. Why is this so important? With a user-friendly interface, users can complete a task efficiently and easily. ”

— TANG Hui Min, BSc (IS Management) 2009 entry batch
2nd Major in Advanced Business Technology without Track

“ Simply put, at SIS, we learn to learn. It is very similar to the saying of “Give a man a fish, and he will last for a day. Teach a man to fish to fish, and it will last him for a life time”.

At SIS, you gain knowledge of IT in a business setting, but the most important values that you acquire from SIS are to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, and self-motivated to want to learn more and be the best at what you do. ”

Jaryll TJIOE Hongfei, BSc (IS Management) 2010 entry batch

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We have a distinctive active-learning experience which goes beyond classroom teaching, and even goes beyond the standard SMU interactive class pedagogy.

Our students LEARN, and learn-to-learn via in-class design exercises, presentations, debates, problem-solving sessions, small-scale projects, large-scale projects, and numerous interactions with business and technology professionals. Students gain exceptionally strong project management skills through designing, implementing, using and improving Business IT solutions.

SIS students make use of what they learn. In addition to doing regular course assignments, they do projects to apply what they learn.

Projects form a large component of an SIS student's life. Most projects are done in groups so they learn how to work effectively in a team. These projects give students the opportunity to analyse and solve real business problems as well as build a solid foundation in IT and project management skills.

Many examples of IS Application Projects are shown here

 

IS Application Projects Great examples of IS Application Projects that really helped people and changed things.

Take a look at prize and award-winning IS projects:

•  SCB iLab@SMU Innovative Project Prize
•  Lien Centre Award for IS480 Final Year Project
•  Best IS480 Project Award

“ SIS is a great "training ground" for the working world. You will learn to take ownership of your own learning and skills to juggle various commitments. Apart from technical skills and domain expertise, an IT professional must have communication and presentation skills that allow him to work with other business groups. The SIS curriculum will let you learn to collaborate effectively with your peers. Often there is more than one way to solve a problem, so learning from each other matters a great deal. Also, faculty members are always more than willing to provide advice. It will be tough work but the experience will be rewarding and far more significant. ” TAN Choon Hua, Cliff,
BSc (IS Management) 2009 entry batch

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SIS students get early exposure to new ways of working, communicating, coordinating, and collaborating.

“ In SIS, we function like a big family. Everyone is tightly connected, from the faculty to the current students to our alumni. We never say "no" to providing assistance or support to our own. It’s only in SIS that you will see your dean coming down to school events and daringly doing "stunts" that no one can imagine! You get to see how our faculty interacts and mingles with the students in a fun, relaxed manner at all times. ” Jenzus HSU Yong Jie,
BSc (IS Management) 2010 entry batch

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“ Studying in SMU, especially in SIS, was probably the best decision I ever made in my life. It may sound exaggerated, but I am truly thankful for the skills and values that the school instilled in me. Not only did I learn hard skills like SQL and effective research which come in really handy in my everyday work, I also learnt soft skills like working effectively with people you have never met before which is crucial since my job is project based. SIS's culture has instilled humility, a learning-to-learn attitude, and so much more among my peers and I — something really unique to SIS. ” CHIU Cheuk Ning, Olivia, Consultant, Accenture
BSc (IS Management) 2006 entry batch

Olivia is the first Singapore iWhiz. She had an exclusive session with Mr Bill Gates at Microsoft's HQ in Redmond, USA. Read more

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“ I think the thing that surprised me most is how many people got jobs in significant organisations soon after graduation. People with more of an interest in business than low-level IT work found places that suited them in organisations like SAP, IBM and HP amazingly quickly. ” Jonathan ZHAN Yisheng
Founder
Slightly Sane Software LLP
BSc (IS Management)
2004 entry batch

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SIS Entrepreneurs
SIS produces so many entrepreneurs. Take a look at some of the entrepreneural activities started by our students and graduates. Read more