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  • 3.00 Credits

    vProject management has become a foundational skill for all business and technology managers. This course will explore the unique challenges of managing projects with technology enablers. You will study and apply best practices in project management including planning, scheduling, managing cost, quality, and risk, while monitoring the external and internal influences that can affect project scope and eventual success with integrating technology into the business environment. The challenges of working with diverse teams of business experts, as well as internal and external technology experts will be addressed. The goal of this course will be an increased sense of confidence in bringing technology projects to a successful close in any professional setting.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the transition from IT individual contributor to IT leader. The challenges of leading an information technology organization are explored in depth, including cultural awareness, conflict resolution, and the personal transitions involved in moving from peer to leader within the technical team. Practical techniques for leading, coaching, and motivating collaborative teams of technical and non-technical professionals will be discussed and practiced. Students will gain a perspective and skill set that will enable them to emerge as leaders in their current environment, as well as prepare for increasing levels of responsibility in their IT leadership career.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will explore information technology innovation from a process perspective. We will begin by looking at the trends that are influencing the future of technology, and then examine what those trends will demand in terms of business and technology process innovations. A variety of process improvement models will be studied, including Capability Modeling, Agile software development, Lean and Six Sigma approaches to continuous improvement and others, all with the goal of assembling a tool kit of techniques and approaches for managing the integration of IT processes with evolving business models.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Managing the technology enterprise as a business will be the focus of this course. Students will gain critical business acumen by looking at the global economy from the perspective of planning and executing a strategic direction for IT. Specific topics will include trends in globalization, government policy and international issues with technology deployment, outsourcing of the workforce, intellectual property laws, and global economic factors. Students will bring all of these perspectives together with a case study approach to planning and monitoring the performance of an IT function against a balanced scorecard that drives business growth. At the end of this course, students will have a broadened perspective of the role of IT in the global economy.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces you to the skills you will need to make sound financial decisions. Principles of finance and accounting will be covered, with a focus on applying financial perspectives to support technology selection and implementation decisions. You will analyze financial statements, develop return on investment scenarios and develop an IT business plan and budget to support a strategic IT initiative.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course challenges you to examine your ability to affect positive change in the world. The course will expose a variety of global social and environmental issues and the history, trends, and best practices currently underway to promote a better future. Emphasis will be placed on increasing your perspective on the impact that your technology decisions can have on others around the world. You will join a global community, engage in learning about an issue of your choice, and emerge with a personal commitment to be an advocate for social responsibility in the technology management field.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will introduce the concept of the organization as an integrated system. Principles of organizational learning and growth will be explored, with an emphasis on capturing and sustaining learning over time. You will work in virtual teams online and examine the tools and processes available to capture the knowledge that emerges from your work. You will analyze everyday business operations such as project post-mortems, problem solving sessions, and process improvement efforts, and learn to sift through the outcomes of these efforts to capture learning for future use. At the end of this course, you will be able to develop knowledge capture processes and recommend technologies to support organizational learning initiatives.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to allow you to develop the judgment required to examine new ideas in technology and weigh their potential to add value to an industry. Rather than assigning reading and classroom work, this course will engage you in virtual teams to examine real-time trends that are influencing your industries in topics such as biotechnology, rapid prototyping, artificial intelligence, simulated environments, social networking, wireless communications, and many others as technology continues to evolve. You will gain the ability to recognize an emerging technology, propose it to a business leader, and defend your position with a critical examination of its potential to support a business initiative while mitigating the risk inherent in innovation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on technology as an infrastructure to support business operations. Topics include an examination of proven and tested operating systems, hardware, software, databases, networks, and the variety of platform choices that the technology manager is faced with. You will work as teams to develop technology benchmarks to support comparisons and to make decisions based on criteria that are aligned to business requirements. You will create a proposal for implementing and maintaining a technology infrastructure to support a business in the industry of your choice.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course presents the challenge of implementing technology in an organizational environment. Topics will include the principles of systems thinking, the process of transition at the individual and organizational level, and the dynamic nature of working in a distributed collaborative environment. You will propose a technology, assess an organization's readiness for change and develop a plan for addressing potential obstacles as part of a transition management plan. Rather than working independently, you will be placed in roles on a multi-functional implementation team and challenged to integrate your plans with your classmates' in a virtual environment. You will emerge from this course with an increased appreciation of the many factors that influence the success of technology adoption and the ability to collaborate as members of transition management teams to ensure successful implementations.
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