MSc Business and Enterprise Systems
MSc Business and Enterprise Systems Programme is for people who have recently graduated from a computingrelated degree and want to increase their knowledge and skills before starting work, or are at an early stage in their careers.
It is also suitable for graduates from management, IT, manufacturing, engineering, science, applied science and related disciplines. This will allow already in business practitioners to enhance their professional development within their current employment. It focuses on the skills needed to provide successful technical solutions to business problems. You gain the necessary skills to design, specify and build internet-enabled enterprise systems.Career Prospects
- The aim of this ‘programme is to develop practical skills and critical awareness in relation to the state-of-the-art in business/enterprise systems integration (from a service oriented perspective). The practical elements of the course will be supported by Enterprise Class Open source ERP systems as well as other ERP systems such as SAP/Oracle etc.,. Broadly speaking, you will gain experience of ERP systems understanding, implementation methods and understand Business Processes and Technology Management. Consequently, one will get hands-on experience of technology and systems that will enhance employability.
Objectives
Requirements
- At least an Honours Degree or other qualifications (academic or professional) acceptable to the University of Technology, Mauritius with some mathematical or numerical analysis knowledge
Curriculum
Modules
ERP Systems Theory & Deployment
Rationale, theories and practices around Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP)
Development of the knowledge required to understand the forces driving ERP design and implementation.
Enterprise systems strategy and rationale
Issues of organisational implementation and business services,
Processes and functions from an ERP perspective.
Business process integration with an ERP environment
Implications of implementing ERP systems in organisations
Development of key skills necessary to deploy and configure ERP systems
Business process improvement alongside enterprise systems configuration and configuration management
Business Process Re-Engineering & Modelling
Business Process Management
Business Process Improvement
Kaizen
Process Improvement
Workflow
Process Re-engineering Life Cycle
ERP
Knowledge Management
Human Resource Management Systems
Customer Relationship Management
Groupware & Collaborative Systems
Change Management
Business Model
Business Modelling Tools
Programming Language tools for BPM (BPMN, BPEL)
Business Reference Model
Business Process Integration
Business Process Re-engineering
Professional Research & Development
Strategic Research Advancement
Strategic Planning Support
Industry collaboration & partnerships
Program management
Communication of Research and Research Opportunities
Planning & Managing Research
Analysing, Interpreting and Reporting
Enhancement of collaboration
Multi-disciplinary Approaches
Field Research
Standards & Ethics
Organization and human resources issues in R&D
ICT Controls & Change Management
Control Environment,
Change management procedures,
Security policies, standards and processes,
Technical support policies and procedures,
Hardware/software configuration,
Installation, testing, management standards, policies and procedures, Disaster recovery/backup and recovery procedures
COBIT, COSO, SOX, IT Application controls
Data/information/knowledge management,
Approaches to information integration and business analytics
Data Migration,
Data Cleansing and preparation,
KPI Integration,
Business Performance Management, GAP Analysis,
Digital Dashboard, Balance Scorecard, ITIL
Service Oriented Architecture
SOA - Cloud Computing, SaaS, Distributed computing
Challenges in adopting SOA
Web Service Approach
SOA & Web service Protocols
SOA & Network Management Architecture
Web 2.0
Business Process Maintenance, Integration, applications & security
Web services Description Language
Service Orientation: Standardised service contract, Service Loose Coupling, Service Abstraction, Service re-usability, service autonomy, service granularity, service statelessness, service discoverability, service
compensability
Service Reference Architecture
Technology Entrepreneurship
Sequential process Investigation
Transforming technology-driven idea into customer-driven product,
Capturing value of innovative product
Entrepreneurial start-up venture
Perspective of the entrepreneur
Open innovation models
Entrepreneurial ventures.
Intellectual property,
High-tech product development,
Venture finance,
High-tech market strategy,
Strategic alliances,
Entrepreneurial leadership skills.
Commercializing technology
Commercial development process
Technology exploitation through licensing,
New challenges to global patent strategies,
Organization and human resources issues in R&D
Data Mining & Statistics
Data-mining methods
Industry trends
Decision trees,
Regression,
Neural nets,
Clustering,
Network analysis, and feature selection.
Evaluation of business-intelligence systems,
Data warehousing,
Privacy issues,
Strategic use of information, and emerging data-mining methods
Econometrics
Global IT Management
Global information technology environment
Framework for building national information structure
International business opportunities on the information superhighway
Problem of data quality in a developing economy
How can information technology enable developing countries to integrate into the global economy?
Information technology planning and architectures for networked global organizations
Information systems resource structure and management in multinational organizations
Issues in Global Outsourcing
Global software outsourcing
Global management support systems
Strategic application of information technology in global business
Developing and implementing global information systems
Industrial Project
Students will undergo a six months project in collaboration with the industry. An internal academic staff and
an external representative from the industry local or overseas through UTM linkages will jointly supervise
this project. The Project would include a project write up and presentation.
