| IS Management Depth Electives
The IS Management Electives are open to both BS (ISM) students in SIS as well as to SMU students from the bachelor programmes in the other five schools. Details on prerequisites are given in the respective course design documents.
Also see Additional IS Management Depth Electives (offered by other SMU schools)
Supply Chain Processes and Solutions
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Course design document |
• A business-centered course where students are introduced to software applications and technologies used in supply chain management (SCM) and explores strategic opportunities and practical challenges related to their use in global operations.
• Focuses on discovering business requirements and operational constraints and understanding how to lever the applicable technologies surveyed.
• Examines the following selected special industry topics such as third-party logistics, continental trucking, global freight shipping, logistic depot and seaport terminal operations beyond the typical shipper's logistics and supply chain integration project management concerns.
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Course design document |
• Covers concepts of large scale, complex IT applications from both a customer and vendor perspectives.
• Key topics covered are the following:
• Business processes of a firm and how that relates to the fundamental concepts of architecture and components of EIS (Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, etc). Implementing these systems: vendor relationships, licensing, customisation, business process re-engineering, etc.
• Discussions on value/returns derived from large scale IT investments in EIS, managing EIS assets and how it relates to IT governance.
• Other related concepts: EIS vendor strategies, technological evolution, and the shift of focus from applications/products to services.
• Facilitates class discussion with practitioners from both the vendor side (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, etc) and from large customers drawn from a variety of industry sectors.
• Prepares students in getting into management consulting: understand the business of EIS, investment issues (why the CFO should be worried if the CIO goes after an EIS implementation?), value derived from EIS, etc; getting into IT consulting: to learn what it takes to IT enable business processes, customization of mass packaged software, upgrades of EIS; getting into industry sector operations: to understand if EIS approach makes sense for your industry operations, typical IT landscape in the particular industry sector; and getting into IT vendor tech dept: get exposure to management issues surrounding a large, highly deployed IT artifact.
• Prepares students to work with the consulting people/firms in their work life.
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IT and Business Innovation
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• Empowers students with innovation methodologies for identifying new product, service and process innovations.
• Trains students to identify innovation opportunities arising from new technology shifts both at Micro (e.g. RFID) or Macro (e.g. Peer to Peer Computing) levels.
• Students can use the resulting innovations for starting businesses or for their final year IS projects.
• Students can also use the skill set for developing innovation products and services for their employers.
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IT Governance and Portfolio Management
Course design document
| • Introduces the several key concepts and practices related to IT Governance and Portfolio Management.
6 October, 2008ourse is built around a well-researched IT governance framework addressing best practices in IT governance.
• Introduced IT audit as well as emerging standards and regulations such as COBIT and Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• Trains students in analyzing project proposals from across multiple functions.
• Part of the course will be taught by instructors from Ernst and Young and Mercury International where they will use live cases to discuss IT governance and portfolio management practices.
• Those trained in IT governance can work in corporate program office of the firms in helping define and implement the firm's IT governance policies.
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IT Risk Management
Course design document (available soon)
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• Every choice regarding the design of an IT solution and every IT investment decision includes risk. Because there are always uncertainties, each choice or decision related to any aspect of IT investment, solutioning, implementation or ongoing operations must be viewed from the perspective of risk management.
• This course focuses on understanding the risks involved with managing information technology or systems in business settings.
• Students will also be introduced to methods and tools of analyzing and managing these risks.
• Students will explore topics such as:
• Information security related risks
• Outsourcing and offsharing related risks
• Solution creation and implementation related risks
• Data center and operations related risks
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Advanced
Seminar on IS Management
Course design document
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• In Seminar on IS Management (IS101), students in the first term of their first year were introduced to how IT is used in the context of complex business processes, how IT can enable value generation, and other topics related to the management of information technology and systems in business settings.
• Advanced Seminar on IS Management revisits these and similar themes in more in-depth and sophisticated ways, leveraging the fact that upper year SIS students taking this elective are much more experienced and capable than when they first entered the programme.
• Topics will vary from year to year enabling the instructor to include a combination of the most recent and emerging issues at the intersection of IT and management, along with some of the enduring and always important fundamentals.
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Guided Research in Information Systems- Management Area
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Course design document |
• Exposes students to frontiers of IS technology or IS management research.
• Students learn research methodology and gain first-hand experience in research process, which may include problem/hypothesis formulation, literature survey, case study, solution design and implementation, experimentation and validation, technical writing & presentation.
• One-to-one mentoring supervision by an SIS faculty
• Enables students to interact and foster closer ties with SIS faculty and their research groups
• Students are expected to write a term paper that may cover one (or more) of the following:
- literature review
- empirical study (e.g. case/field study, survey, experiments and analysis)
- analytical model (e.g. optimisation model, simulation model, industry organisation)
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Technopreneurship - Management Area
Course design document |
• Gain an understanding of the latest innovation methodology
• Learn to apply the methodology to selected themes to identify innovation opportunities.
• Know how to translate innovation opportunities to simple prototypes
• Validate the innovation opportunity with investors and business leaders
• Understand how to develop proposals for proof of concept fund raising
• Prepare yourself to start a technology enabled business |
Additional IS Management Depth Electives
The following courses offered by other SMU Schools can also be counted as an IS Management Depth Elective. Details on prerequisites are given in the respective course descriptions and course syllabus documents from the SMU school offering the course.
• Accounting Information Systems (School of Accountancy)
• Marketing Information Systems (LKC School of Business)
• Development of the Videogame and Entertainment Industries (LKC School of Business)
• Applied Statistical Methods (School of Economics)
• Probability Theory and Statistical Inference (School of Economics)
• Information Technology and the Law (School of Law)
• Intellectual Property Rights (School of Law)
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