MBA IS Concentrations

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No matter what your specialty, performing your job effectively will require you to retrieve data from databases, manipulate it with business intelligence tools, and perform analyses with decision support systems. Financial analysts rely on data drawn from enterprise systems; marketing and sales managers work extensively with customer relationship management systems. Introducing new products and services requires development of new systems; developing new ventures involves creating infrastructures that support growth and innovation. Across all industries, areas, and specializations, your career and corporate success will require that you be able to bring together people, policies, and technology to implement and use complex information systems. By providing knowledge and experience with key technologies and management techniques, the Information Systems concentrations at Katz develop your ability to recognize and capitalize on opportunities to use information systems to provide tangible business value and advance your career by increasing efficiency, supporting growth, and enabling innovation.

The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business offers two concentrations in Information Systems: IS Design/Application and IS Management and Leadership. Selecting either of the IS concentrations advances your career by providing both expertise and credentials which distinguish you from other MBA graduates by documenting your ability to contribute in this key aspect of business and management.

[edit] IS Design and Application Concentration

The IS Design and Application concentration provides you with the skills and knowledge you will need to participate in the implementation of information systems, apply information technology to support analysis and decision making, and evaluate the feasibility and business impact of proposed systems.

For the IS Design and Application Concentration you must complete nine credits of IS coursework. At least six credits must be accounted for by courses from the IS Design/Application core:

The remaining three credits may be satisfied by taking any IS (BMIS) course offered within Katz. Students in this concentration particularly benefit from Project Management (BMIS 2051), Knowledge Management Systems (BMIS 2576), Telecommunications Management (BMIS 2070), and any of the Current Topics in MIS or Project courses that are offered.

[edit] IS Management and Leadership Concentration

Implementing and managing systems within an organization is as much a management challenge as it is a technical problem. The IS Management and Leadership concentration provides you with the skills and knowledge you will need to lead business-driven IS development efforts, manage the implementation of information systems, and oversee a firm’s portfolio of strategic and operational IT investments.

For the IS Management and Leadership Concentration you must complete nine credits of IS coursework. At least six credits must be accounted for by courses from the IS Management Core:

The remaining three credits may be satisfied by taking any IS (BMIS course) offered within Katz. Students in this concentration particularly benefit from Systems Analysis and Design (BMIS 2589), Impact Analysis (BMIS 2586) and many of the Current Topics in MIS or Project courses that are offered.

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