Information Technology and Management, 120 ECTS Credit

Master level

This is a two years master programme that aims at bringing together students with business and technology background to provide them with knowledge on approaches where information technology is a driving force for successful business operation. Information systems and business applications are essential part of businesses processes nowadays. However, information systems are not isolated, rather they function in a business context of an enterprise and operated by the enterprise personnel. Only when all parts of this complex socio-technical system work well it brings the business most benefit. Achieving this requires understanding of two perspectives: management of business processes as well as engineering of information systems to support them. Thus, this master programme offers two specializations.

The specialization Business Development focuses on management of IT to support business development where IT is an enabling technology and important driving force for new ways of doing business, both locally and globally. The programme emphasizes the combination of issues concerning business processes, the networked society and the human use of IT. Close-to-all business possibilities, traditional as well as emerging are enabled by IT and therefore put new demands on how to coordinate and manage business development with IT. In other words, the programme focuses on IT enabled business renewal and alignment of business and IT as key factors in gaining competitive advantage.

Knowledge themes addressed in the program are as follows:
• Business processes in an increasingly networked society
• Strategic planning and leadership
• E-communication, knowledge sharing and cooperative work
• IT investments and legal aspect.

The other specialisation, Information Engineering, is described on the website of Jönköping International Buisness School, see www.jth.hj.se.

Career Prospects
This is a programme for those who want to work in a national or international environment with managerial and strategic IT and business issues. The programme also provides adequate prerequisites to apply for a PhD programme and a potential forthcoming research career. Examples of future professional roles that will be open after the program include Chief Information Officer (CIO), IT Controller, IT Consultant and Project Manager. Beside these formal professional roles there are also a number of functions that need to be handled by professionals. These functions are: IT strategy, Enterprise system enhancement, Internal IT-competence development, Business architecture and System integration facilitation.

Degree Title
Master of Science with a major in Informatics.

Prerequisites 
a Bachelors degree (i.e the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits from a recognized university) with at least 60 ECTS credits in either informatics, computer science, civil engineering, business administration or equivalent.

Courses*

Year 1 ECTS

• Information Technology and Innovation Management, 8hp

• Research Methods in Informatics and Computer Science 7,5hp

• Knowledge Modelling and Knowledge Management, 7hp

• Organizing change, 7,5hp

• Enterprise modeling, 7,5hp

• Societal and industrial evolution in the connected (IT) economy, 7,5hp

• Corporate entrepreneurship and strategic renewal, 7,5hp

• IT investments and procurement, 7,5hp

Year 2

• Elective courses (4*7.5hp) or study abroad

• Master Thesis 30hp

Example of elective courses

• Enterprise Systems

• IT & Strategic Business Development

• Business Intelligence 

 • Data Mining• Software Quality and Project Management

• IS Research and Current Topics

• e-Business in a Networked Society

• IT-enabled Changes

*This is a preliminary programme of study. Some changes may occur. Contents and course literature of the individual courses may also be subject to change.